Bans on smoking in public and the workplace led to a 10% drop in premature births and emergency asthma treatment for children, researchers said.
The evidence, based on the records of more than two million children, comes from 11 published investigations into the impact of local or national smoking bans in the United States, Canada and four European countries.
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