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- About Guide: Secondhand Smoke - Collection of resources on secondhand smoke as an environmental health problem.
allergies.miningco.com/health/allergies/cs/smoke/index.htm
- 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.
epw.senate.gov/~epw/105th/munzer.htm
- Bartenders' Pulmonary Function After Establishment of a Smoke-Free Workplace - Research measures bartenders pulmonary health before and after bars went smokefree.
jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v282n7/ffull/jlt0818-1.html
- Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns - Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v280n22/full/joc80922.html
- Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-free Bars and Taverns - Summary of research published in JAMA 1998. Establishment of smoke-free bars and taverns was associated with a rapid improvement of employees' respiratory health.
www.ocat.org/body_a3d.htm
- 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.
www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/20740.html
- Deaths in New Zealand Attributable to Secondhand Smoke - Health report finds there are about 388 deaths caused by SHS in New Zealand each year; breakdown, summary, conclusions.
www.tobacco.org/News/00092handsmoke.html
- Deaths in New Zealand from Secondhand Smoke - There are about 388 deaths caused by secondhand smoke in New Zealand each year. Report explains.
www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/c7ad5e032528c34c4c2566690076db9b/f52d604cfdcb49364c256973007c4028?OpenDocument
- 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.
www.gasp.org/environmental.html
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke: An Overview - Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.
psy.ed.asu.edu/~aztec/ets.html
- 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.
www.epa.gov/ncea/smoking.htm
- Even a Little Secondhand Smoke Is Dangerous - Article from the Journal of the American Medical Association summarizes recent research showing that even short-term exposure to secondhand smoke causes heart disease.
jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v286n4/ffull/jed10040.html
- Evidence points to health risks of secondhand smoke - Newspaper article reports on the research evidence of secondhand smoke's health effects.
web.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/05/24/city/SMOKE24.htm
- 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.
www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,2763,375532,00.html
- Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke - Report, resources, and extensive set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
www.tcsg.org/sfelp/health.htm
- Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke - California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/caets/ets-main.htm
- Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke - List of links on the subject.
www.cleanlungs.com/education
- IAQ Fact Sheet: Environmental Tobacco Smoke - National Safety Council's factsheet.
www.nsc.org/EHC/indoor/ets.htm
- Indoor Air Quality in Florida: Tobacco Smoke - Pamphlet from University of Florida's Cooperative Extension Service. Short and sweet.
edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htmlgen.exe?DOCUMENT_HE350
- Just The Facts on Secondhand Smoke - Very short factsheet on constituents and effects.
www.ai.org/isdh/programs/tobacco/ets.htm
- KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke - Educates parents on keeping their homes and cars smokefree for their childrens health. News and stories on health effects of secondhand smoke; signup for mailed information.
www.kiiss.org/articles.htm
- KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke - KIISS is dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke and its multiple health risks. Features "Share A Story" Section.
www.kiiss.org
- MayoClinic: Secondhand Smoke - Health effects of secondhand smoke.
www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/conditioncenters/invoke.cfm?objectid=055661AE-8008-40C8-A8526ED085B5CCC1
- Medical Effects of Tobacco Smoke Inhalation - Report by the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (Australia).
www.nohsc.gov.au/ohsinformation/nohscpublications/fulltext/docs/h6/503.htm
- Minnesota Medical Association: Secondhand Smoke Kills - Letter to public officials from the Minnesota Medical Association outlines the health hazards of secondhand smoke.
www.mmaonline.net/publicEdu/tobaccommaletter071801.cfm
- National Cancer Institute: Environmental Tobacco Smoke - Factsheet outlines health effects of secondhand smoke, breaks it down into developmental, respiratory, cancer, and heart effects.
cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_9.htm
- NERC reports on secondhand smoke - National Environmental Respiratory Center has reports on effects of secondhand smoke on: allergies, asthma, emphysema, lung and heart function, and more. Many can be ordered from the website. Others are citations to the literature.
www.nercenter.org/canned.htm
- OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke - Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.
www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/index.html
- 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.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/secondhand072098.htm
- 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.
www.ucop.edu/srphome/trdrp/Aim97/Aim4.html
- Reporting Results of Studies: Passive Smoking - How to understand statistics, using passive smoking as an example.
www.cates.mcmail.com/Common2.htm
- Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking - Short EPA report. "Based on the weight of the available scientific evidence, EPA has concluded that the widespread exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the U.S. presents a serious and substantial public health risk."
www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/etsfs.html
- 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.
www.rtso.org/student/papers/secondhand.htm
- Science and Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke - NCTH collection of web resources on the subject.
www.ncth.ca/ncthweb.nsf/Menu/0FD25F61E1D57F8285256A24006B8E1E?OpenDocument
- Secondhand Smoke - Quick rundown of the health effects.
www.waltham.caregroup.org/Secondhand_Smoke.asp
- Secondhand Smoke and Family and Pets? - Short article on health effects of secondhand smoke.
ivillagehealth.com/experts/smoking/qas/0,11816,242106_128789,00.html
- 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.
ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2000/108-11/ss.html#smoke
- Secondhand Smoke Facts - Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.
www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/secondhandsmoke.html
- Secondhand Smoke Increases Risk of Infections - People who smoke cigarettes or breathe secondhand smoke are at a higher risk of pneumonia or meningitis.
www.nurseweek.com/news/00-03/031300a.html
- 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.
www.tobacco.org/Documents/9406EPA.html
- The Health Effects of Passive Smoking - A scientific information paper on the health effects of passive smoking. November 1997.
www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/advice/nhmrc/index.htm
- 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.
www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/advice/nhmrc/execsum.htm
- The Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Scientific Information - An extensive review of evidence published in peer-reviewed scientific journals linking passive smoking to disease including asthma in children, lower respiratory illness, lung cancer, major coronary conditions and other illnesses.
www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/advice/nhmrc/foreword.htm
- The Seattle Times: Passive smoke is more than a nuisance - May 1998 literature review, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, evaluated more than 100 major studies on the health effects of passive smoking. 63% found harm, ranging from respiratory problems to cancer. Of the studiess that were inconclusive or found no health effects, three quarters were written by scientists affiliated with the tobacco industry.
www.seattletimes.com/news/editorial/html98/smok_080598.html
- 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."
www.drugs.indiana.edu/pubs/factline/tobac.html#health
- Tobacco Facts: Environmental Tobacco Smoke - From the University of Waterloo in Canada.
www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~hbr/tobacco_plan/5_4.html
- TRDRP Annual Investigators Meeting 1998 Proceedings - Poster session on effects of secondhand smoke on health. Measurement; quantification; effects on lungs; exposure to infants; chemical analysis; effects on epethelial cells; models.
www.ucop.edu/srphome/trdrp/aim98/aim5c.html
- USNews: Secondhand smokescreen: searching Big Tobacco's papers - "As pivotal as the EPA report was, however, it was only one in a series of studies that found that sidestream smoke caused disease in nonsmokers."
www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980803/3smok.htm
- 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.
gasp.somedec.com/edu/old/air_filt_devices.html
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke - California EPA report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.
www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/finalets.html
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