Directory of Secondhand Smoke Resources

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• Acute Effects of Passive Smoking on the Coronary Circulation in Healthy Young Adults

  http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/286/4/436
  Recent research shows that even brief exposure to secondhand smoke affects heart health.

• Cardiovascular Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Nearly as Large as Smoking

  http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/111/20/2684
  Review of recent research finds the effects of secondhand smoke on the heart and cardiovascular system are nearly as bad as smoking itself.

• CNN - Study: Passive smoke an even greater risk

  http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9705/19/nfm.passive.smoke/
  New research provides some of the strongest evidence yet that constant exposure to passive smoke nearly doubles the risk of heart attack and death in non-smokers.

• Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and ischaemic heart disease: an evaluation of the evidence

  http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7114/973
  Article from the British Medical Journal.

• Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Heart Disease

  http://www.ocat.org/healtheffects/heartdisease.html
  Describes the effect of secondhand smoke on circulation and the heart, and provides a bibliography of relevant research.

• NEJM -- Passive Smoking and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease -- A Meta-Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies

  http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199903253401204
  Review of the scientific literature finds that passive smoking is consistently associated with an increased risk of heart disease across a wide variety of studies.

• One Half Hour of Passive Smoking Damages Heart

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/25/smoking.health
  News report on research that shows that breathing secondhand smoke for just 30 minutes can damage the heart.

• Passive Smoking and Heart disease: Epidemiology, Physiology, and Biochemistry

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1984876?dopt=Abstract
  Review of the scientific literature outlines the mechanisms and documents the risk (the third leading preventable cause of death in America).

• Repace Associates - Secondhand Smoke and Cardiovascular Disease

  http://www.repace.com/fact_cardio.html
  Reviews the literature up to most recent publications; presents summary and graphs results for major research items.

• Secondhand Smoke a First-Rate Danger

  http://smokefreeoregon.com/bars/smokefacts/index.php
  Secondhand smoke is now recognized as a significant cardiovascular health hazard; summary of findings of 18 recent research studies.

• Secondhand Smoke and Acute Coronary Syndromes

  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/2/9
  Research finds that even small exposures to secondhand smoke can damage health and even kill.

• Secondhand smoke and schaemic heart disease: an evaluation of the evidence

  http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7114/973.abstract?ijkey=zdKc.10Ii15r6
  Analysis of 19 epidemiological studies shows that people who have never smoked have 30% greater risk of ischaemic heart disease if they live with a smoker.

• Secondhand Smoke as a Cause of Atherosclerotic Disease

  http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/279/2/157
  Article in a medical journal summarizes the research findings that secondhand smoke causes heart disease that may be irreversible.

• Secondhand Smoke Shortens Life

  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1056000.ece
  One of the largest studies on secondhand smoke ever done finds that people who lived with a smoker die sooner than people who don't.

• Six-month Public Smoking Ban Slashes Heart Attack Rate in Community

  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-04/uoc--sps032603.php
  In the first study of its kind, researchers have found that the number of heart attack victims admitted to a regional hospital dropped by nearly 60 percent during the first six months that a smoke-free ordinance was in effect in the community.

• Tobacco and Cardiovascular Disease

  http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/cvd/page1.htm
  Section on secondhand smoke and heart disease.

• Unfavorable Effects of Passive Smoking on Aortic Function

  http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/128/6/426
  Report in Annals of Internal Medicine. Research directly measured effects of secondhand smoke on blood vessels.

• Washington Post: Secondhand Smoke Linked to Increased Heart Attack Rate

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/secondhand.htm
  Article on a major study finding that high exposure to secondhand smoke nearly doubles a woman's risk of having a heart attack.

 

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