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- AARC: Secondhand Smoke - Facts that the American Association for Respiratory Care has learned in its search for information about secondhand smoke.
www.aarc.org/patient_education/tips/2ndsmoke.html
- Ask NOAH About: Environmental Health; Secondhand Smoke - Full-text consumer health information on environmental health. Information on secondhand smoke.
www.noah-health.org/english/illness/environment/environ.html#Second
- Asthma and Secondhand Smoke - Links and resources from the About.com.
asthma.about.com/health/asthma/msub22.htm
- Breathe Free" African Americans and Secondhand Smoke - Booklet created by the Onyx Group for the National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery; facts about secondhand smoke, community response.
www.onyx-group.com/breathefree.htm
- drkoop.com: Tackling Tobacco - Educational information, advice, and news on Smoking Cessation. Emphasis is on learning to make informed health care decisions.
www.drkoop.com/tobacco
- 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.
www.jhsph.edu/IGTC/InstitutePublications/ETS_chap.html
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke Poster Session - Health conference presents short summaries of recent research and experience in secondhand smoke policy and programs.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3119.htm
- Guides on Environmental Tobacco Smoke - NCTH publications on secondhand smoke; ETS in the workplace; advocacy tools for protecting yourself and others from secondhand smoke; science and health effects; case studies and new developments; best practices and lessons learned. resources for further research.
www.ncth.ca/NCTHweb.nsf/pages/C39F5D003BB01DDD85256A230042E96F?OpenDocument
- Health and Safety: Secondhand Smoke and Children - Short factsheet from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care, at the University of Colorado School of Nursing
nrc.uchsc.edu/ss.html
- How Dangerous is Second-Hand Smoke? - The immediate and long-term health effects of exposure to second-hand smoke; links to other sites for information on passive smoking, indoor air quality, and related health problems.
www.canadian-health-network.ca/faq-faq/tobacco-tabagisme/8e.html
- Just Eliminate Lies - Ad campaign developed by Iowa teens on secondhand smoke .
www.jeliowa.org
- Kickbutt's Fact Sheets on Secondhand Smoke - Fully documented fact sheets from Washington DOC (Doctors Ought to Care).
kickbutt.org/learn/secsmok.html
- Make Public Places Smokefree - UK opinion piece. "One thing that really gets up my nose is inhaling other peoples' stale cigarette smoke against my will."
www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a54.asp
- Medical Online - Information resource on health and fitness issues; brief discussion of secondhand smoke.
www.medicalonline.com.au/medical/disease_index/smoking/passive.htm
- OMA Position Paper on Second Hand Smoke - Ontario Medical Association outlines the medical facts and their policy position based on those facts.
www.oma.org/phealth/2ndsmoke.htm
- Passive Smoke - National Jewish Medical and Research Center provides facts about passive smoke.
nationaljewish.org/news/secondhand.html
- Passive Smoking - Report on the research; links to published studies.
www.theberries.ns.ca/BOTW_archives/passive_smoke.html
- Passive Smoking - Links to sites on victims of secondhand smoke; factsheets; industry strategy on smoking at workplaces and in public places; and more.
www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/subject.html#PASSIVE
- 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.
www.cancersa.org.au/i-cms?page=1.6.36.368.188
- Passive Smoking & Health - Slide presentation from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
www.jhsph.edu/IGTC/Resources/passive_smoke.html
- Passive Smoking (Cancer Awareness In Scotland) - Information about secondhand smoke, its harm to health, attitudes about it, smokefree eateries, and tobacco industry tactics.
www.cancerawareness.org.uk/PassiveSmoking.htm
- Passive smoking -- Overview - Commentary provides overview of the public policy, science, and health aspects.
procor.org/procor-commentary-hma/msg00012.html
- Passive Smoking, Ash-uk factsheet #8 - Concise summary of the effects of secondhand smoke.
www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact08.html
- Passive Smoking: Summary of New Findings - Compilation by ASH-UK includes latest research.
www.ash.org.uk/html/passive/html/passive.html
- 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.
www.no-smoke.org/ets.html
- Protection from Secondhand Smoke in Ontario - 67 page report concludes: secondhand smoke causes diseases in children and adults; secondhand smoke causes thousands of deaths in Canada every year; ventilation is no solution to secondhand smoke.
www.camh.net/otru/ETSreportMay2001.PDF
- Second-hand Smoke - About.com - Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/msub2ndh.htm
- Secondhand Smoke - What You Can Do - EPA Pamphlet.
www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/etsbro.html
- 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.
medicalreporter.health.org/tmr0895/smokemyth0895.html
- Smoke Free Housing - Listings of smokefree housing.
www.smokefreeworld.com/housing.shtml
- Test your Secondhand Smoke IQ - Think you know about secondhand smoke? A fun quiz.
www.aarc.org/patient_education/iq_tests/secondhand/smoke_form.html
- Texas Cooperative HealthHints - Secondhand Smoke - Definition, health effects, costs, and how to reduce secondhand smoke at home and in the workplace.
fcs.tamu.edu/health/Health_Education_Rural_Outreach/Health_Hints/2001/june-july/june-july.htm
- The Shameful History of Secondhand Smoke in Oklahoma - The American Lung Association provides the history leading up to the fact that Oklahoma law prohibits smokefree public places.
www.oklung.org/advocacy/historyof2ndhandsmoke.htm
- 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.
www.gaspforair.org/gedc/gedccons.htm
- 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.
www.ndsn.org/JAN96/WIDOWER.html
- 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.
rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_MONOGRAPHS/MONO10/MONO10.HTM
- The Truth About Secondhand Smoke - Excerpted from Consumer Reports, January 1995. What the science says about the effects of secondhand smoke; how the tobacco industry campaigned to get the public to believe otherwise.
gasp.somedec.com/edu/old/consumer_reports_sechnd_smo.html
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