Recent scientific publications and discussion on secondhand smoke, tobacco industry influence, and campaigns to protect people from it.

A service of the tobacco.org; provides full featured search and display of current news stories regarding secondhand smoke.

American Lung Association article describes the public demand for and the private benefits of providing smokefree outdoor spaces.

Links and documents in chronological order.

While producing benefits for non-smokers by eliminating passive smoking and making it easier for smokers to reduce or stop smoking, smoke-free workplaces substantially reduce tobacco industry sales. This loss in revenues explains why the industry fights so hard against legislation to ensure that workplaces become smoke-free.

Magazine article reviews the scientific evidence.

Report from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health provides discussion of the research base (as of 1991) and measurements of various toxins and carcinogens in firsthand and secondhand smoke.

Guide to saying no to secondhand smoke from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Analysis paper. Why secondhand smoke should be regulated; policy options compared; implementation and enforcement issues.

Professional nursing group takes a stand for smokefree environments.

Over 10 days of hearings over the OSHA proposed standard for indoor air quality; features witnesses from the tobacco industry and public health.

Measurement, educational, and analysis services; extensive factsheet on secondhand smoke.

Links maintained by the Association for Nonsmokers, Minnesota.

Resources for teachers and educators on the topic of secondhand smoke; activities in this "hands-on" Internet-based lesson integrate health, biology, social studies, mathematics, art, reading, writing, and technology, and can be adopted for use with students in middle and high school.

Smokefree Liverpool is a partnership of voluntary and statutory organisations working towards making Liverpool a Smokefree city by 2008, the year the city celebrates its status as European Capital of Culture.

Teaching material for grades 6-12 on composition and effects of secondhand smoke.

Sample print advertisements promoting smokefree restaurants and smokefree environments.

Scientific paper presented at a health conference.

Fully footnoted factsheet on the components and health effects of secondhand smoke.