Secondhand Smoke: Changing Clinical Practice to Improve Children's Health From the American Medical Association CME/CE

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Release Date: July 29, 2008; Valid for credit through July 29, 2009

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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  1. Describe the health consequences associated with exposure to secondhand smoke
  2. Summarize the research on clinical interventions for counseling the patients' parents
  3. Implement a step-by-step smoking cessation counseling process
  4. Identify referral sites for parental smoking cessation counseling and resources
Authors and Disclosures

Samuel Grief, MD, FCFP
Disclosure: Samuel Grief, MD, FCFP, has disclosed that he has served on the advisory board of Trivita Corporation, Inc.


Janet Williams, MA
Disclosure: Janet Williams, MA, has disclosed that she has received grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency to develop and present continuing medical education about secondhand smoke.


Carol Peckham
Disclosure: Carol Peckham has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
 
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