EPA/ORD/NCEA - Passive Smoking - ETS
- 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 effe
- http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=2835

Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Dangers
- Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.
- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/secondhand-smoke/CC00023

About Guide: Secondhand Smoke
- Collection of resources on secondhand smoke as an environmental health problem.
- http://allergies.about.com/health/allergies/cs/smoke/index.htm

Evidence points to health risks of secondhand smoke
- Newspaper article reports on the research evidence of secondhand smoke's health effects.
- http://www.no-smoking.org/may00/05-25-00-3.html

OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke
- Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.
- http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/index.html

MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke
- Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/secondhandsmoke.html

Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Related Mortality
- 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)
- http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057

Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
- NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease.
- http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/10/index.html

The Danger of Second Hand Smoke - About.com
- Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
- http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/secondhandsmoke/

Passive Smoking
- Report on the research; links to published studies.
- http://www.theberries.ns.ca/BOTW_archives/passive_smoke.html

Medical Online
- Information resource on health and fitness issues; brief discussion of secondhand smoke.
- http://www.medicalonline.com.au/medical/disease_index/smoking/passive.htm

Secondhand Smoke Study
- A study funded by the tobacco industry concludes that secondhand smoke is harmless, but scientists and health experts disagree.
- http://my.webmd.com/content/article/64/72529.htm

Secondhand smoke myths
- Myth: Outdoor air pollution is more harmful than indoor. Truth: Your risk of developing cancer from secondhand smoke is about 100 times greater than from outdoor cancer-causing pollutants. Myths of secondhand smoke explored.
- http://medicalreporter.health.org/tmr0895/smokemyth0895.html

Passive Smoking: Summary of New Findings
- Compilation by ASH-UK includes latest research.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/passive/html/passive.html

Passive Smoking, Ash-uk factsheet #8
- Concise summary of the effects of secondhand smoke.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact08.html

Passive Smoke
- National Jewish Medical and Research Center provides facts about passive smoke.
- http://www.nationaljewish.org/medfacts/passive.html

How Dangerous is Passive Smoking?
- British health group concludes that the weight of the evidence is that secondhand smoke kills.
- http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/html/health_news/270503smoke.html

Environmental TobaccoSmoke and Related Issues
- Collection of documents from Australia and elsewhere covers health effects of secondhand smoke, indoor air quality, tobacco related exposures for carcinogens.
- http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/supersite/resources/docs/reference_ets.htm

Why Air Filtration Devices Are Ineffective
- 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, sulf
- http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=96

Secondhand Smoke - A Little Is Dangerous
- Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable health hazards.
- http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/Secondhand/Secondhand_lid.cfm

Just The Facts on Secondhand Smoke
- Very short factsheet on constituents and effects.
- http://www.state.in.us/isdh/programs/tobacco/ets.htm

Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns
- Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
- http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol280/issue22/index.dtl

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 no
- http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/hth/passive_smoking.asp

Critical Appraisal of the Enstrom/Kabat paper
- Research funded by the tobacco industry finds little danger in secondhand smoke; analysis of this research.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/passive/html/BMJ0503critique.html

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

Deaths in New Zealand from Secondhand Smoke
- There are about 388 deaths caused by secondhand smoke in New Zealand each year. Report explains.
- http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/c7ad5e032528c34c4c2566690076db9b/f52d604cfdcb49364c256973007c4028?OpenDocument

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

Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
- http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/caets/ets-main.htm

Minnesota Medical Association: Secondhand Smoke Kills
- Letter to public officials from the Minnesota Medical Association outlines the health hazards of secondhand smoke.
- http://www.mmaonline.net/publicEdu/tobaccommaletter071801.cfm

Secondhand Smoke and Family and Pets?
- Short article on health effects of secondhand smoke.
- http://ivillagehealth.com/experts/smoking/qas/0,11816,242106_128789,00.html

Secondhand Smoke Facts
- Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.
- http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/secondhandsmoke.html

Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- Report, resources, and extensive set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
- http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/health.htm

Secondhand Smoke Increases Risk of Infections
- People who smoke cigarettes or breathe secondhand smoke are at a higher risk of pneumonia or meningitis.
- http://www.nurseweek.com/news/00-03/031300a.html

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

IAQ Fact Sheet: Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- National Safety Council's factsheet.
- http://www.nsc.org/EHC/indoor/ets.htm

Indoor Air Quality in Florida: Tobacco Smoke
- Pamphlet from University of Florida's Cooperative Extension Service. Short and sweet.
- http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htmlgen.exe?DOCUMENT_HE350

Environmental Tobacco Smoke: An Overview
- Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.
- http://psy.ed.asu.edu/~aztec/ets.html

NERC reports on secondhand smoke
- 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.
- http://www.nercenter.org/canned.htm

National Center for Environmental Assessment - Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking
- 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.
- http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/ets/etsindex.cfm

KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke
- Dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke by educating parents and the public on what secondhand smoke does to children.
- http://www.kiiss.org/

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

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

Setting the Record Straight: Secondhand Smoke is A Preventable Health Risk
- 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.
- http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/9406EPA.html

Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke
- List of links on the subject.
- http://www.cleanlungs.com/education/

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 denie
- http://www.gasp.org/environmental.html

Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking
- 1992 EPA report identifies diseases caused by secondhand smoke, estimates exposures.
- http://www.epa.gov/nceawww1/ets/etsindex.htm