30% of Georgia’s Asthmatic Children Live with An Adult Smoker

Of the 210,000 Georgia children with asthma, about 30% live in a home where at least one adult smokes, the first-ever statewide asthma report from the Georgia Division of Public Health and the American Lung Association of Georgia found. June Deen of the American Lung Association said, "The report confirmed what we knew about the overall prevalence of asthma, but we didn't think the [number of] smoking households was that high." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that about 11% of children 17 years old and younger in Georgia have asthma, a rate "a touch higher" than the national average (Guthrie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2/13).