Sites about the health effects of breathing secondhand smoke.
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Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
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)
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.
Report on recent research; when a woman is a nonsmoker but her partner smokes at home, her fertility is reduced.
Report, resources, and set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
List of links on the subject.
Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.
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.
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.
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.
Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.
(August 17, 2005)
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.
(July 20, 1998)
Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.
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)
Report on recent research; when a woman is a nonsmoker but her partner smokes at home, her fertility is reduced.
Report, resources, and set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
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.
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.
List of links on the subject.
California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
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.
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.
Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.
(August 17, 2005)
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.
(July 20, 1998)
