The number of children taking up smoking and women who smoke during pregnancy has declined over the past decade, a new report has found.
However, disadvantaged children remain at particular risk of exposure to second-hand smoke.
The findings are contained within A Tobacco-Free Future, an all-island report on tobacco, inequalities and childhood published this week by the Institute of Public Health inIreland (IPH) and the TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland.
The World Health Organisation said there are three key “windows of exposure” in terms of tobacco-related harm in childhood; in the womb, directly through children taking up smoking and through exposure to second hand smoke.
It found smoking rates during pregnancy fell by around a third in the Republic of Ireland between 1997/1998 and 2007/2008.
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