Cancer
Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Exposure to Spouse's Smoking Causes Lung Canc, Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Lung Cancer, Involuntary Smoking, Involuntary smoking causes breast cancer, Meds.com: Environmental Tobacco Smoke, NERC Bibliography on Tobacco smoke and Cancer, OncoLink: Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Passive Smoking May Speed Cancer Growth, Passive smoking tied to breast cancer risk
Effects on Children
AAP - Child Health Month, AAP - Environmental Tobacco Smoke: A Danger to Chi, Association of Pediatric Dental Caries with Passiv, Breast-feeding and Secondhand Exposure to Cigarett, Childhood asthma, Children and Secondhand Smoke, Children at Risk from ETS, Clinical Briefs - American Family Physician, July , Custody Judge Bans Smoking Near Child, Dr. Spock: Secondhand Smoke and Children's He
Respiratory System
AARC: Secondhand Smoke, Asthma and Secondhand Smoke, Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Respiratory Di, Noncancer Respiratory Health Effects of Environmen, Respiratory Effects of Secondhand Smoke in a Pane, Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking, Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Funct
About Guide: Secondhand Smoke
Collection of resources on secondhand smoke as an environmental health problem.
Alfred Munzer Statement
Dr. Munzer is past president of the American Lung Association. This is a statement he gave to Congress on the health effects of secondhand smoke.
Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establis
Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
British Medical Association on Secondhand Smoke
Medical report concludes that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer and heart disease, kills thousands of people in the UK, and there is no safe level of exposure.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
A primary cause of COPD is exposure to secondhand smoke. This article gives the facts on the disease and the risk.
Could Passive Smoking Damage Your Health?
Analysis of recent research finds that a single study with a number of problems which failed to find an effect of secondhand smoke is best understood in the context of many studies that have found an effect, but notes that most news reporting failed to note that context.
Critical Appraisal of the Enstrom/Kabat paper
Research funded by the tobacco industry finds little danger in secondhand smoke; analysis of this research.
Deaths in New Zealand from Secondhand Smoke
http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/c7ad5e032528c34c4c2566690076db9b/f52d604cfdcb49364c256973007c4028?Ope
There are about 388 deaths caused by secondhand smoke in New Zealand each year. Report explains.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Chapter in Environmental Toxicants, 2nd ed, 1999. Characteristics and concentration of secondhand smoke; measurement and assessment of exposure; health effects on infants, the unborn, children, and adults; SIDS; physiological effects; epidemiological studies.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
California EPA report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Related Mo
Study of secondhand smoke finds little relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco-related mortality. (James E. Enstrom and Geoffrey C. Kabat, 17 May 2003)
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Harms and Kills
Factsheet; all sources cited. "Environmental Tobacco Smoke [ETS], or secondhand smoke, is the third leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the U.S.; the first is active smoking." Summary of how the tobacco industry denies the facts about secondhand smoke with initimidation and disinformation campaigns.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke: An Overview
Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.
Environmental TobaccoSmoke and Related Issues
Collection of documents from Australia and elsewhere covers health effects of secondhand smoke, indoor air quality, tobacco related exposures for carcinogens.
EPA/ORD/NCEA - Passive Smoking - ETS
Effects of secondhand smoke on children and adults: asthma attacks, lower respiratory tract infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia; buildup of fluid in the middle ear; upper respiratory tract irritation; lung cancer.
Evidence points to health risks of secondhand smok
Newspaper article reports on the research evidence of secondhand smoke's health effects.
Fertility Cut by Passive Smoking
Report on recent research; when a woman is a nonsmoker but her partner smokes at home, her fertility is reduced.
Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Report, resources, and extensive set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacc
California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
Characterizes the risk, provides a research bibliography, breaks down the exposure by toxins and carcinogens, and enumerates the scientific bodies that have concluded that secondhand smoke causes disease.
Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease.
Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke
List of links on the subject.
How Dangerous is Passive Smoking?
British health group concludes that the weight of the evidence is that secondhand smoke kills.
IAQ Fact Sheet: Environmental Tobacco Smoke
National Safety Council's factsheet.
Indoor Air Quality in Florida: Tobacco Smoke
Pamphlet from University of Florida's Cooperative Extension Service. Short and sweet.
Just The Facts on Secondhand Smoke
Very short factsheet on constituents and effects.
KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smo
KIISS is dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke by educating parents and the public on what secondhand smoke does to children. Information on secondhand smoke, California smokefree workplaces, smokefree cars, smokefree homes, and smokefree restaurants.
Medical Online
Information resource on health and fitness issues; brief discussion of secondhand smoke.
MEDLINEplus: Secondhand Smoke
Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.
Minnesota Medical Association: Secondhand Smoke Ki
Letter to public officials from the Minnesota Medical Association outlines the health hazards of secondhand smoke.
National Cancer Institute: Environmental Tobacco S
Factsheet outlines health effects of secondhand smoke, breaks it down into developmental, respiratory, cancer, and heart effects.
National Center for Environmental Assessment - Res
Based on the weight of the available scientific evidence, concludes that secondhand smoke in the United States presents a serious and substantial public health impact.
NERC reports on secondhand smoke
National Environmental Respiratory Center has reports on effects of secondhand smoke on: allergies, asthma, emphysema, and lung and heart function. Many can be ordered from the website. Others are citations to the literature.
OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke
Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.
Other Studies Support EPA on Secondhand Smoke
Most scientific studies in recent years support the point: Breathing someone else's tobacco smoke can hurt one's health. Report from the Washington Post.
Passive Smoke
National Jewish Medical and Research Center provides facts about passive smoke.
Passive Smoking
Cancer Council of South Australia factsheet on secondhand smoke covers health effects, biomarkers and measureming exposure, tobacco industry activities, ventilation, legal actions by individuals, and economic effects of smokefree workplaces.
Passive Smoking
Report on the research; links to published studies.
Passive Smoking, Ash-uk factsheet #8
Concise summary of the effects of secondhand smoke.
Passive Smoking: Summary of New Findings
Compilation by ASH-UK includes latest research.
Poster sessions on secondhand smoke
From a conference on tobacco. Secondhand smoke as a cause of lung cancer in dogs living with smokers; analysis of infants' breathing; effect on allergies; effect on development; measurements of exposure.
Reporting Results of Studies: Passive Smoking
How to understand statistics, using passive smoking as an example.
Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking
1992 EPA report identifies diseases caused by secondhand smoke, estimates exposures.
RRT: report on secondhand smoke
College paper, fully footnoted, on secondhand smoke, by a student at the Respiratory Therapy Program of Fanshawe College in Canada.
Science and Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
NCTH collection of web resources on the subject.
Secondhand Smoke - A Little Is Dangerous
Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable health hazards.
Secondhand Smoke and Family and Pets?
Short article on health effects of secondhand smoke.
Secondhand Smoke Causes Menstrual Pain
Secondhand smoke increases the occurrence of dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain) in nonsmoking women; moreover, the more secondhand smoke a woman is exposed to daily, the higher her risk for dysmenorrhea.
Secondhand Smoke Facts
Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.
Secondhand Smoke Increases Risk of Infections
People who smoke cigarettes or breathe secondhand smoke are at a higher risk of pneumonia or meningitis.
Secondhand smoke myths
Myth: Outdoor air pollution is more harmful than indoor. Truth: Your risk of developing cancer from secondhand smoke is about 100 times greater than from outdoor cancer-causing pollutants. Myths of secondhand smoke explored.
Secondhand Smoke Study
A study funded by the tobacco industry concludes that secondhand smoke is harmless, but scientists and health experts disagree.
Secondhand Smoke: Effects on Health
Presents the medical evidence, reviews the record of acculating evidence, summarizes other reviews, and itemizes the disease caused by secondhand smoke.
Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Danger
Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.
Setting the Record Straight: Secondhand Smoke is A
Since the EPA identified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen, the tobacco industry has been trying to cast doubt on the science. In this item, the EPA summarizes the science and fact.
The Danger of Second Hand Smoke - About.com
Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
The Health Effects of Passive Smoking
A scientific information paper on the health effects of passive smoking by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. November 1997.
The Health Effects of Passive Smoking
A scientific information paper on the health effects of passive smoking. November 1997.
Tobacco - IPRC Factline
"Second-hand smoke is the nation's No. 1 airborne carcinogen, killing more people than all other forms of air pollution combined."
TRDRP Annual Investigators Meeting 1998 Proceeding
Poster session on effects of secondhand smoke on health. Measurement; quantification; effects on lungs; exposure to infants; chemical analysis; effects on epethelial cells; models.
USNews: Secondhand Smokescreen: Searching Big Toba
USNews report; tobacco firms worried for years about risks of passive smoke.
Why Air Filtration Devices Are Ineffective
GASP Colorado information; some air cleaners clear some of the smoke, but none can effectively clear all the toxic gases, which include carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ammonia, volatile N-nitrosamines, hydrogen cyanide and cyanogen, sulfur compounds, nitriles, hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones.