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Pages: 1 2 [>>] | - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke
California EPA report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.
http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/finalets.html
- 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
- 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
- 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/
- OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke
Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.
http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/index.html
- 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
- 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
- Secondhand Smoke Facts
Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/secondhandsmoke.html
- Secondhand Smoke: Effects on Health
Presents the medical evidence, reviews the record of acculating evicence, summarizes other reviews, and itemizes the disease caused by secondhand smoke.
http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/nphp/legtools/smoking/passive/section3.htm
- 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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