Open Directory - Society: Issues: Health: Tobacco: Secondhand Smoke

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: Secondhand Smoke (73)

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Health Effects@ (66)
Industry Critiques@ (29)
Interviews and FAQs (2)

Measurement (10)
Private Homes (6)
Public Places (26)
Resources (9)
Workplace (13)

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Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke - From the National Cancer Institute. Exposure measurement and prevalence, developmental toxicity (prenatal and postnatal), reproductive effects, respiratory health effects, carcinogenic effects, cardiovascular effects.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Poster Session - Health conference presents short summaries of recent research and experience in secondhand smoke policy and programs.
OMA Position Paper on Second Hand Smoke - Ontario Medical Association outlines the medical facts and their policy position based on those facts.
Protecting Nonsmokers From Secondhand Smoke - A fact sheet about protecting nonsmokers from secondhand smoke, produced by Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. All facts presented with citations to research literature.
The Truth About Secondhand Smoke - Report on the science, the industry's attack on the science, and the practical significance of secondhand smoke, from GASP of Colorado.
Widower Awarded Compensation in First Secondhand Smoke Fatality Case - On December 8, 1995, the U.S. Department of Labor ruled that a hospital nurse's cancer death was due to her on-the-job exposure to secondhand smoke.
Students Entering College as Nonsmokers 40 Percent Less Likely to Take Up Smoking When They Live in Smoke-Free Dorms - Harvard School of Public Health research finds that smokefree policies reduce both secondhand smoke and tobacco addiction. (March 21, 2001)

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

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Society: Issues: Health: Tobacco: Secondhand Smoke (73)

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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