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Protecting At-Risk Families From Secondhand Smoke at Home—Forward-Looking Measures of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

JAMA Health Forum 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.1658

July 10, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint describes how the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control recommendations create an opportunity to extend protection from secondhand smoke to private and semiprivate residential spaces and, thus, improve health and housing equity.

Corresponding Author: Vaughan W. Rees, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Kresge Building, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02115 (vrees@hsph.harvard.edu).

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