Resources from the American Medical Association on clean indoor air including presentations and a model ordinance for smokefree indoor places.

Recent scientific publications and discussion on secondhand smoke, tobacco industry influence, and campaigns to protect people from it.

A service of the tobacco.org; provides full featured search and display of current news stories regarding secondhand smoke.

American Lung Association article describes the public demand for and the private benefits of providing smokefree outdoor spaces.

Downloadable ads promoting smokefree air.

Summary of research measuring the effect on business of going 100% smokefree; 12 different studies summarized, analysing communities from British Columbia to Texas, from Massachusetts to California.

While producing benefits for non-smokers by eliminating passive smoking and making it easier for smokers to reduce or stop smoking, smoke-free workplaces substantially reduce tobacco industry sales. This loss in revenues explains why the industry fights so hard against legislation to ensure that workplaces become smoke-free.

Magazine article reviews the scientific evidence.

Report from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health provides discussion of the research base (as of 1991) and measurements of various toxins and carcinogens in firsthand and secondhand smoke.

Links and documents in chronological order.

Americans for Nonsmoker's Rights presents recommended guiding principles for developing and implementing effective clean air campaigns, based on the experience of tobacco control advocates over many years.

The National Occupational Health and Safety Commission in Australia on the health effects of secondhand smoke, the Australian approach to the problem, and related issues.

ASH-UK has compiled a list of guides to smokefree pubs, hotels, restaurants, and cafes; by area and worldwide.

Guide to saying no to secondhand smoke from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Analysis paper. Why secondhand smoke should be regulated; policy options compared; implementation and enforcement issues.

Paper on Australian national response to secondhand smoke exposure covers health effects, extent of exposure, public health risk, public opinion, and responses.

Professional nursing group takes a stand for smokefree environments.

Over 10 days of hearings over the OSHA proposed standard for indoor air quality; features witnesses from the tobacco industry and public health.

Bibliography of research through 1998.

Measurement, educational, and analysis services; extensive factsheet on secondhand smoke.

Resources for teachers and educators on the topic of secondhand smoke; activities in this "hands-on" Internet-based lesson integrate health, biology, social studies, mathematics, art, reading, writing, and technology, and can be adopted for use with students in middle and high school.

Links maintained by the Association for Nonsmokers, Minnesota.

Smokefree Liverpool is a partnership of voluntary and statutory organisations working towards making Liverpool a Smokefree city by 2008, the year the city celebrates its status as European Capital of Culture.

Teaching material for grades 6-12 on composition and effects of secondhand smoke.

Sample print advertisements promoting smokefree restaurants and smokefree environments.

Scientific paper presented at a health conference.

Fully footnoted factsheet on the components and health effects of secondhand smoke.

Information and resources produced by Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights and the ANR Foundation, including fact sheets, model ordinances, and model policies.

Effects of secondhand smoke; Protecting your health: what you can do to reduce the health risks of passive smoking, at home, where children spend time, in the workplace, in restaurants and bars