Sites about the health effects of breathing secondhand smoke.
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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. Does not cover heart disease effects.
- Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke List of links on the subject.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Report, resources, and set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
- Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
- 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.
- Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
- Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke 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.
- 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.
- The Danger of Second Hand Smoke - About.com Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
- Secondhand Smoke Price Tag: $10 Billion a Year Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.
- Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease.
- 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.
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Related Mortality 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)
- Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Dangers Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.
- MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.