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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.
http://www.ocat.org/healtheffects/
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Secondhand Smoke - A Little Is Dangerous
Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable
health hazards.
http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/Secondhand/Secondhand_lid.cfm
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Just The Facts on Secondhand Smoke
Very short factsheet on constituents and effects.
http://www.state.in.us/isdh/programs/tobacco/ets.htm
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Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns
Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol280/issue22/index.dtl
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Mayo Clinico Report on Secondhand Smoke
A burning cigarette is a health risk to everyone in the room.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?objectid=055661AE-8008-40C8-A8526ED085B5CCC1
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Secondhand Smoke: Effects on Health
Presents the medical evidence, reviews the record of acculating evidence, summarizes other reviews,
and itemizes the disease caused by secondhand smoke.
http://www.nphp.gov.au/workprog/lrn/smoking.htm
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Could Passive Smoking Damage Your Health?
Analysis of recent research finds that a single study with a number of problems which failed to
find an effect of secondhand smoke is best understood in the context of many studies that have
found an effect, but notes that most news reporting failed to note that context.
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/hth/passive_smoking.asp
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Critical Appraisal of the Enstrom/Kabat paper
Research funded by the tobacco industry finds little danger in secondhand smoke; analysis of this
research.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/passive/html/BMJ0503critique.html
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MayoClinic: Secondhand Smoke
Health effects of secondhand smoke.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/conditioncenters/invoke.cfm?objectid=055661AE-8008-40....
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USNews: Secondhand Smokescreen: Searching Big Tobacco's Papers
USNews report; tobacco firms worried for years about risks of passive smoke.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/archive/980803/19980803004462_brief.php
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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.
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/advice/nhmrc/foreword.htm
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Science and Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
NCTH collection of web resources on the subject.
http://www.ncth.ca/ncthweb.nsf/Menu/0FD25F61E1D57F8285256A24006B8E1E?OpenDocument
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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.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/20740.html
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Deaths in New Zealand from Secondhand Smoke
There are about 388 deaths caused by secondhand smoke in New Zealand each year. Report explains.
http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/c7ad5e032528c34c4c2566690076db9b/f52d604cfdcb49364c256973007c402....
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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.
http://www.gaspforair.com/gedc/gedcfilt.htm
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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.
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2000/108-11/ss.html#smoke
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Reporting Results of Studies: Passive Smoking
How to understand statistics, using passive smoking as an example.
http://www.cates.mcmail.com/Common2.htm
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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.
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/advice/nhmrc/execsum.htm
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Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/caets/ets-main.htm
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Minnesota Medical Association: Secondhand Smoke Kills
Letter to public officials from the Minnesota Medical Association outlines the health hazards of
secondhand smoke.
http://www.mmaonline.net/publicEdu/tobaccommaletter071801.cfm
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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.
http://www.rtso.org/netservices/student/papers/secondhand.htm
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National Cancer Institute: Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Factsheet outlines health effects of secondhand smoke, breaks it down into developmental,
respiratory, cancer, and heart effects.
http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_9.htm
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Secondhand Smoke and Family and Pets?
Short article on health effects of secondhand smoke.
http://ivillagehealth.com/experts/smoking/qas/0,11816,242106_128789,00.html
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About Guide: Secondhand Smoke
Collection of resources on secondhand smoke as an environmental health problem.
http://allergies.miningco.com/health/allergies/cs/smoke/index.htm
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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.
http://www.tobacco.org/News/00092handsmoke.html
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Secondhand Smoke Facts
Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/secondhandsmoke.html
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Evidence points to health risks of secondhand smoke
Newspaper article reports on the research evidence of secondhand smoke's health effects.
http://web.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/05/24/city/SMOKE24.htm
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Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Report, resources, and extensive set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law
Project.
http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/health.htm
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The Health Effects of Passive Smoking
A scientific information paper on the health effects of passive smoking. November 1997.
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/advice/nhmrc/index.htm
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Secondhand Smoke Increases Risk of Infections
People who smoke cigarettes or breathe secondhand smoke are at a higher risk of pneumonia or
meningitis.
http://www.nurseweek.com/news/00-03/031300a.html
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke
California EPA report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.
http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/finalets.html
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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.
http://epw.senate.gov/~epw/105th/munzer.htm
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British Medical Association on Secondhand Smoke
Medical report concludes that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer and heart disease, kills
thousands of people in the UK, and there is no safe level of exposure.
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Smokefree
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IAQ Fact Sheet: Environmental Tobacco Smoke
National Safety Council's factsheet.
http://www.nsc.org/EHC/indoor/ets.htm
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Indoor Air Quality in Florida: Tobacco Smoke
Pamphlet from University of Florida's Cooperative Extension Service. Short and sweet.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htmlgen.exe?DOCUMENT_HE350
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke: An Overview
Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.
http://psy.ed.asu.edu/~aztec/ets.html
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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.
http://www.nercenter.org/canned.htm
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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.
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/ets/etsindex.cfm
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KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke
KIISS is dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke by educating
parents and the public on what secondhand smoke does to children. Information on secondhand smoke,
California smokefree workplaces, smokefree cars, smokefree homes, and smokefree restaurants.
http://www.kiiss.org/
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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.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,2763,375532,00.html
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Secondhand Smoke
Quick rundown of the health effects.
http://www.waltham.caregroup.org/Secondhand_Smoke.asp
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OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke
Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.
http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/index.html
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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."
http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/pubs/factline/tobac.html#health
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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.
http://www.ucop.edu/srphome/trdrp/aim98/aim5c.html
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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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/secondhand072098.htm
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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.
http://www.ucop.edu/srphome/trdrp/Aim97/Aim4.html
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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.
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/editorial/html98/smok_080598.html
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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.
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/9406EPA.html
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Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke
List of links on the subject.
http://www.cleanlungs.com/education/
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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."
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/etsfs.html
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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.
http://www.epa.gov/ncea/smoking.htm
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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.
http://www.gasp.org/environmental.html
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Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking
1992 EPA report identifies diseases caused by secondhand smoke, estimates exposures.
http://www.epa.gov/nceawww1/ets/etsindex.htm
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