Inpatient providers can boost protections for children by screening for secondhand tobacco smoke exposure, urging parents who smoke to quit, suggesting smoking cessation interventions and brief counseling sessions to parents interested in behavior change and ensuring the availability of nicotine replacement therapy.

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