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Editorial commentary: early exposure, lifelong damage: evidence of cardiac damage from childhood smoking
(Elsevier Inc., 2025) Ras, Tammy
In this issue of Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, the review article by Corsi and Agbaje provides up-to-date evidence of the early insults of childhood smoking on the growing heart. The study focuses specifically on the long-term effects of both direct smoking and second-hand smoke exposure on cardiac structure and function. In addition, it addresses a critical public health concern as the prevalence of smoking in childhood and adolescents is becoming a substantial public health concern, where the prevalence has been shown to increase with age, with the majority (60 %) of children continuing to smoke into their early to late adulthood. Adolescents born to smoking mothers are also more likely to initiate smoking as adolescent smoking is associated