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EDITOR--St Clair and Klein note in the letter above (and at www.bmj.com/cgi/ eletters/321/7257/362#EL3) that Merlo has not commented on the Marlboro look-alike squirt gun that I wrote about in the BMJ''s theme issue on tobacco.[1] They also wonder whether I have received a reward from Philip Morris, given Merlo''s claim that "In 1995 [Philip Morris] began to reward those who bring trademark violations to our attention, and this practice continues today."Before the BMJ published my short piece on the squirt gun along with punchcigars a photograph of it[1] I brought this toy to the attention of tobacco industry lawyers on two occasions. On 2 March 1999, while testifying at h trial in a lawsuit against tobacco companies, I presented the squirt gun to the court. The lawyer representing Philip Morris (Bradley Lerman, of the law firm Winston and Strawn) objected but was overruled by the judge. Lerman then cross examined me about the squirt gun, candy cigarettes resembling tobacco cigarettes, and copyright infringement.[2] At a deposition on 19 May 2000, in another tobacco lawsuit, I again brought the squirt gun to the attention of tobacco company lawyers. I gave them a photograph of the product (identical to that published in the BMJ), and I told them where I bought it. The lawyer representing Philip Morris (Murray Garnick, of the law firm Arnold and Porter) then asked me questions about efforts by the company to protect its trademarks and copyrights.[2]

EDITOR--St Clair and Klein note in the letter above (and at www.bmj.com/cgi/ eletters/321/7257/362#EL3) that Merlo has not commented on the Marlboro look-alike squirt gun that I wrote about in the BMJ''s theme issue on tobacco.[1] They also wonder whether I have received a reward from Philip Morris, given Merlo''s claim that "In 1995 [Philip Morris] began to reward those who bring trademark violations to our attention, and this practice continues today."Before the BMJ published my short piece on the squirt gun along with punchcigars a photograph of it[1] I brought this toy to the attention of tobacco industry lawyers on two occasions. On 2 March 1999, while testifying at h trial in a lawsuit against tobacco companies, I presented the squirt gun to the court. The lawyer representing Philip Morris (Bradley Lerman, of the law firm Winston and Strawn) objected but was overruled by the judge. Lerman then cross examined me about the squirt gun, candy cigarettes resembling tobacco cigarettes, and copyright infringement.[2] At a deposition on 19 May 2000, in another tobacco lawsuit, I again brought the squirt gun to the attention of tobacco company lawyers. I gave them a photograph of the product (identical to that published in the BMJ), and I told them where I bought it. The lawyer representing Philip Morris (Murray Garnick, of the law firm Arnold and Porter) then asked me questions about efforts by the company to protect its trademarks and copyrights.[2]

ResultsThe sample characteristics reflected the convenience sampling scheme by which the majority of participants in this study were recruited through asthma-related clinics or organizations serving low-income, largely minority populations. More than 70% of the adult respondents reported an annual household income of less than $20,000, and more than 80% classified their race/ethnicity as other than white. Mothers made up more than 90% of the adult respondents in the parentchild pairs. Approximately 29% of the respondents reported living in single-parent households (Table 1).Although all study subjects came from smoking households, overall levels of smoking and ETS exposure reported by the parents were low, with more than half of the respondents reporting no hours of smoking indoors, and no hours of indoor ETS exposure among their children (Table 2). punchcigars On average, more household smoking reportedly occurred outside the home than inside the home, and nearly half of the respondents reported that absolutely no smoking was allowed inside their home. The urine cotinine concentrations also indicated low levels of ETS exposure among the children, with measurements comparable to those found in other studies for households reporting low or no household ETS exposure. (10) Moreover, increasing restrictions placed on household smoking were significantly associated with lower urinary cotinine concentrations in children with asthma (Fig. 1). In the simple linear-regression analyses, parent-reported level of household restriction on indoor smoking accounted for the greatest amount of variation in urine cotinine concentration (Table 3). Total number of cigarretts smoked by household members per day, presence of maternal smoking, total reported number of hours smoking indoors, and total reported number of hours of children''s exposure to indoor smoking were all also significantly and positively associated with cotinine concentration. Presence of paternal smoking was associated negatively with urine cotinine concentration.

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