HealthDay reports, “Infants exposed to secondhand smoke in the womb and early childhood are likely to have weaker lungs, a new study suggests.” This discovery “is based on levels of blood cotinine during pregnancy and childhood; blood cotinine is the result of the body processing nicotine.” Scientists “tied increased levels of the byproduct with reduced lung function at age 6,” and “noted that the reduction in lung function occurs even with minimal amounts of smoking.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.