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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)
Posted: 12:30 AM Aug 14, 2008
Last Updated: 6:08 PM Aug 13, 2008

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Low-income West Virginia children enrolled in a state nutrition program are more likely to be exposed to smoking at home than their counterparts throughout the United States.

According to a report released Tuesday by the state Office of Nutrition Services, 23.5 percent of the children under age five in West Virginia's Women, Infants and Children program are exposed to indoor tobacco smoke. That's more than double the national average for WIC children, which is 10.6 percent.

State WIC program director Denise Ferris says nutritionists are counseling parents about the dangers of smoking around their children.

Bright spots in the 2007 Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System report included lower-than-national averages for children who are overweight or who have anemia.

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Posted by: harleyrider1978 Location: tenn on Aug 18, 2008 at 12:20 PM
evidence to support the claim. In 1989 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was charged with further evaluating the evidence for health effects of SHS. In 1992 EPA published its report, "Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking," claiming SHS is a serious public health problem, that it kills approximately 3,000 nonsmoking Americans each year from lung cancer, and that it is a Group A carcinogen (like benzene, asbestos, and radon). The report has been used by the tobacco-control movement and government agencies, including public health departments, to justify the imposition of thousands of indoor smoking bans in public places. Flawed Assumptions EPA's 1992 conclusions are not supported by reliable scientific evidence. The report has been largely discredited and, in 1998, was legally vacated by a federal judge. Even so, the EPA report was cited in the surgeon general's 2006 report on SHS, where then-Surgeon General Richard Carmona made the absurd claim that

Posted by: harleyrider1978 Location: tenn on Aug 18, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Please explain why these groups including O.S.H.A say second hand smoke harms no one and doesnt meet the levels that can harm any human being......I am concerned that SHS is not real and that its a political agenda rather than a medical fact.....if it was an undeniable medical fact their should not be dissention with your findings that shs is a medical problem to the public.I beg to differ having been a smoker myself for many years and nearly everyone around has grown up around smoke and raised babies and seen great grandparents smoke into their 90s with no harm...........why is this if shs is an actual health hazzard.......if you dont answer back or publish these findings I have sent I will assume you have plenty to hide and will carry on a disinformation war against people who smoke along with your war on people of obesity.........Yes I have other articles on the war on obesity and saturated fats..........if youd like to see them I can forward. Yes they show a war based upon unsound

Posted by: Anonymous on Aug 15, 2008 at 08:28 AM
If they have money for cigarettes, they have money for proper food for their children! These whiners make me sick because they do nothing to help themselves or their families.