They “found the evidence for respiratory health effects in children to be stronger and more persuasive” than stated, and suggested that the panel consider the possibility that “the impact of ETS on respiratory effects in children may have much greater public health significance than the impact of ETS on lung cancer in nonsmokers.”85 In other words, while 3,000 additional adult lung cancer deaths per year was a serious public health concern, 150,000 to 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia in infants and young children was even worse.
