Open Directory - Health: Specific Substances: Tobacco: Effects: By Source of Exposure: Secondhand Smoke

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Environmental Tobacco Smoke - California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.
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 Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns - Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
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.
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. Does not cover heart disease effects.
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 intimidation and disinformation campaigns.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Related Mortality - 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: An Overview - Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.
Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke - Report, resources, and set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke - 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.
KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke - Dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke by educating parents and the public on what secondhand smoke does to children.
MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke - Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.
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.
National Center for Environmental Assessment - Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking - 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.
OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke - Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.
Secondhand Smoke - A Little Is Dangerous - Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable health hazards.
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: Protect Yourself from the Dangers - Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.
The Danger of Second Hand Smoke - About.com - Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
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.
Secondhand Smoke Price Tag: $10 Billion a Year - Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research. (August 17, 2005)
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. (September 30, 2000)
Evidence points to health risks of secondhand smoke - Newspaper article reports on the research evidence of secondhand smoke's health effects. (May 24, 2000)
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. (July 20, 1998)
Setting the Record Straight: Secondhand Smoke is A Preventable Health Risk - 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. (June 01, 1994)

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: Effects on Children (22)

Open Directory - Health: Specific Substances: Tobacco: Effects: By Source of Exposure: Secondhand Smoke: Effects on Children

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Health: Child Health: Conditions and Diseases: SIDS (31)

Environmental Tobacco Smoke: A Hazard to Children - Policy statement and report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, April 1997. Goes well beyond the EPA report. Updated bibliography covers the research.
WHO Report on Tobacco Smoke and Child Health - 1999 report summarizes the effects of secondhand smoke on children.
AAP - Environmental Tobacco Smoke: A Danger to Children - Short discussion from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Association of Pediatric Dental Caries with Passive Smoking - Research finds that children exposed to secondhand smoke get more cavities.
Breast-feeding and Secondhand Exposure to Cigarettes - Measures infants' exposure from maternal smoking.
Children at Risk from ETS - Young children and unborn infants are more vulnerable than adults to genetic damage from secondhand smoke, and exposures during early development increase the risk of cancer later in life, according to a study at Columbia University.
Education For Change: Second Hand Smoke and its Effect on the Young - List of problems that parental smoking causes in the fetus and child, from a provider of smoking-cessation and SIDS-prevention services.
Effects of Restaurant Smoking Regulations on Children - Research finds that strong local restaurant smoking regulations reduce the amount of secondhand smoke that children are exposed to.
Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Asthma in Children - Research finds that firsthand and secondhand smoke causes about 15% of asthma in North Carolina children.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Children - Factsheet summarizes the effects.
Federal Report on Kids at Risk from Passive Smoking - GASP of Colorado Education Center summarizes recent research estimating number of kids exposed to secondhand smoke and its effects on their health.
Fetal Nicotine or Cocaine Exposure: Which One is Worse? - Research article compares measured effects of prenatal exposure to the substances.
KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke - Educates parents on keeping their homes and cars smokefree for their children's health.
NRDC Pro: Our Children At Risk - Chapter 6 - Secondhand smoke is an environmental health risk.
Passive Smoke Damage to Children Measured - Children who were exposed to secondhand smoke had much higher levels of chemicals in their blood which suggested their blood vessel walls could already be under attack, recent research finds.
Secondhand Smoke Blunts Learning - An estimated 13 million children in the US are exposed to enough tobacco smoke to affect their learning; report summarizes.
Secondhand Smoke Increases Complications in Children with Sickle Cell Disease - Research finds hat children with sickle cell disease who are exposed to tobacco smoke in the home have more complications from the disease than those who live in a smokefree environment.
Secondhand Smoke May Cause Early Lung Damage in Children - Recent research finds that exposure to secondhand smoke in healthy male adolescents is associated with lung function impairment independently of the effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy.
Secondhand Smoke and Childhood Illness and Disease - Effect of prenatal and childhood exposure to secondhand smoke.
Secondhand Smoke and Children - Articles and factsheets on secondhand smoke and children.
Passive Smoke "Ruins Child Teeth" - Children growing up in a house filled with cigarette smoke are likely to need more visits to the dentist, say researchers. (March 12, 2003)
Nicotine's Double Link to Cot Death - New research suggests that tobacco products cause SIDS in two different ways: disrupting a baby's breathing, and disrupting neural circuits. (September 10, 2002)

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