Directory of Secondhand Smoke Resources

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Sites about the health effects of breathing secondhand smoke.

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• Cancer
• Cardiovascular System
• Effects on Children
• Respiratory System

Resources in This Category

• Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns

  http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol280/issue22/index.dtl
  Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.

• Environmental Tobacco Smoke

  http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/ets/finalreport/finalreport.htm
  California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.

• Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Related Mortality

  http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7398/1057.full
  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)

• EPA/ORD/NCEA - Passive Smoking - ETS

  http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=2835
  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.

• Fertility Cut by Passive Smoking

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/30/smoking
  Report on recent research; when a woman is a nonsmoker but her partner smokes at home, her fertility is reduced.

• Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke

  http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/health.htm
  Report, resources, and set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.

• Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

  http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/caets/ets-main.htm
  California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.

• Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke

  http://www.ocat.org/healtheffects/
  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

  http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/10/
  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

  http://www.cleanlungs.com/education/
  List of links on the subject.

• MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke

  https://medlineplus.gov/secondhandsmoke.html
  Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.

• National Center for Environmental Assessment - Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking

  http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/ets/etsindex.cfm
  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.

• Other Studies Support EPA on Secondhand Smoke

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/secondhand072098.htm
  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.

• Secondhand Smoke Causes Menstrual Pain

  http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2000/108-11/ss.html#smoke
  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 Price Tag: $10 Billion a Year

  http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/17/news/economy/secondhand_smoke/
  Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.

• Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Dangers

  http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/adult-health/in-depth/secondhand-smoke/art-20043914
  Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.

• Setting the Record Straight: Secondhand Smoke is A Preventable Health Risk

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/9406EPA.html
  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.

• The Danger of Second Hand Smoke - About.com

  http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/secondhandsmoke/
  Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.

• Why Air Filtration Devices Are Ineffective

  http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=96
  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.

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