There was a sharp fall in the number of children admitted to hospital with severeasthma after smoke-free legislation was introduced in England, say researchers.
These findings reinforce evidence on the impact of smoke-free legislation from studies in North America and Scotland, which also showed a fall in hospital admissions for children with severeasthma attacks.
He had been rushed to the emergency department of the Kandang Kerbau (KK) Women's and Children's Hospital in Singapore two days earlier, wheezing painfully from a severeasthma attack.