And they are at even greater risk of suffering from the common lung condition if their father was a smoker himself, according to the international team of researchers.
The findings, published in the European Respiratory Journal, provide further evidence for the possible existence of a "transgenerational effect" in which smoking can damage the health of people born two generations later.
"We found that the risk of nonallergic asthma in children increases by 59% if their fathers were exposed to secondhand smoke in childhood, compared to children whose fathers were not exposed.
"The risk was even higher, at 72%, if the fathers were exposed to secondhand smoke and went on to smoke themselves," said Jiacheng Liu, from Melbourne University, one of the co-authors.
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