Collection of resources on secondhand smoke as an environmental health problem.

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.

Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went 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.

A primary cause of COPD is exposure to secondhand smoke. This article gives the facts on the disease and the risk.

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.

There are about 388 deaths caused by secondhand smoke in New Zealand each year. Report explains.

California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.

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.

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)

Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.

Collection of documents from Australia and elsewhere covers health effects of secondhand smoke, indoor air quality, tobacco related exposures for carcinogens.

Newspaper article reports on the research evidence of secondhand smoke's health 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.

NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease.

List of links on the subject.

British health group concludes that the weight of the evidence is that secondhand smoke kills.

National Safety Council's factsheet.

Pamphlet from University of Florida's Cooperative Extension Service. Short and sweet.

Very short factsheet on constituents and effects.

Dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke; features a "Share A Story" section.

Information resource on health and fitness issues; brief discussion of secondhand smoke.

Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.

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.

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 exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.

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 Jewish Medical and Research Center provides facts about passive smoke.

Report on the research; links to published studies.

Concise summary of the effects of secondhand smoke.

Compilation by ASH-UK includes latest research.

EPA report covers only respiratory effects, not heart disease etc.

Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable health hazards.

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.

Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.

A study funded by the tobacco industry concludes that secondhand smoke is harmless, but scientists and health experts disagree.

Short article on health effects of secondhand smoke.

Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.

Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.

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.

Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.

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.