A leading hospital says up to a third of the children it treats for certain conditions are ill because their parents smoke in front of them.
Dr Steve Ryan, Medical Director of Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital, says bronchitis, asthma and ear infections could be cut if parents quit smoking.
He said parents often lied about whether they smoke near their children. The British Lung Foundation says 17,000 under-fives are treated every year for exposure to second-hand smoke.
BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Smokers 'make their children ill'
I know!!
I know because I was one of them. Bronchitis 3 times a year regular as a child, and asthma now.
If they were still around, I'd sue 'em.