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MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/secondhandsmoke.html
Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health. |
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Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke - http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/10/index.html
NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease. |
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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. |
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OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke - http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/index.html
Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis. |
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Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Dangers - http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/secondhand-smoke/CC00023
Information provided by the Mayo Clinic. |
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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. |
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke - http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/ets/finalreport/finalreport.htm
California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented. |
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NERC reports on secondhand smoke - http://www.nercenter.org/canned.htm
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. |
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KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke - http://www.kiiss.org/
Dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke by educating parents and the public on what secondhand smoke does to children. |
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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. |
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Seconhand 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. |
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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. |
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Secondhand Smoke - A Little Is Dangerous - http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/Secondhand/Secondhand_lid.cfm
Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable health hazards. |
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British Medical Association on Secondhand Smoke - http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Smokefree
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. |
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Secondhand Smoke Facts - http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/secondhandsmoke.html
Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology. |
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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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How Dangerous is Passive Smoking? - http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/html/health_news/270503smoke.html
British health group concludes that the weight of the evidence is that secondhand smoke kills. |
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Secondhand Smoke Study - http://my.webmd.com/content/article/64/72529.htm
A study funded by the tobacco industry concludes that secondhand smoke is harmless, but scientists and health experts disagree. |
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke Harms and Kills - http://www.gasp.org/environmental.html
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. |
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Alfred Munzer Statement - http://epw.senate.gov/~epw/105th/munzer.htm
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. |