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| Web Pages |
| Just Eliminate Lies |
| Ad campaign developed by Iowa teens on secondhand smoke . |
| 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. |
| Secondhand Smoke - What You Can Do |
| EPA Pamphlet. |
| Protecting Nonsmokers From Secondhand Smoke |
| A fact sheet about protecting nonsmokers from secondhand smoke, produced by Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. All facts presented with citations to research literature. |
| Medical Online |
| Information resource on health and fitness issues; brief discussion of secondhand smoke. |
| Test your Secondhand Smoke IQ |
| Think you know about secondhand smoke? A fun quiz. |
| Passive Smoking: Summary of New Findings |
| Compilation by ASH-UK includes latest research. |
| Second-hand Smoke - About.com |
| Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking. |
| Breathe Free" African Americans and Secondhand Smoke |
| Booklet created by the Onyx Group for the National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery; facts about secondhand smoke, community response. |
| The Truth About Secondhand Smoke |
| Excerpted from Consumer Reports, January 1995. What the science says about the effects of secondhand smoke; how the tobacco industry campaigned to get the public to believe otherwise. |
| The Truth About Secondhand Smoke |
| Report on the science, the industry's attack on the science, and the practical significance of secondhand smoke, from GASP of Colorado. |
| Passive Smoke |
| National Jewish Medical and Research Center provides facts about passive smoke. |
| Texas Cooperative HealthHints - Secondhand Smoke |
| Definition, health effects, costs, and how to reduce secondhand smoke at home and in the workplace. |
| Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
| Chapter in Environmental Toxicants, 2nd ed, 1999. Characteristics and concentration of secondhand smoke; measurement and assessment of exposure; health effects on infants, the unborn, children, and adults; SIDS; physiological effects; epidemiological studies. |
| I Mind Very Much If You Smoke |
| Steps people can take to reduce their exposure to secondhand smoke. |
| Passive Smoking |
| Cancer Council of South Australia factsheet on secondhand smoke covers health effects, biomarkers and measureming exposure, tobacco industry activities, ventilation, legal actions by individuals, and economic effects of smokefree workplaces. |
| OMA Position Paper on Second Hand Smoke |
| Ontario Medical Association outlines the medical facts and their policy position based on those facts. |
| Make Public Places Smokefree |
| UK opinion piece. "One thing that really gets up my nose is inhaling other peoples' stale cigarette smoke against my will." |
| Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
| From the National Cancer Institute. Exposure measurement and prevalence, developmental toxicity (prenatal and postnatal), reproductive effects, respiratory health effects, carcinogenic effects, cardiovascular effects. |
| Passive Smoking |
| Report on the research; links to published studies. |
| Smoke Free Housing |
| Listings of smokefree housing. |
| How Dangerous is Second-Hand Smoke? |
| The immediate and long-term health effects of exposure to second-hand smoke; links to other sites for information on passive smoking, indoor air quality, and related health problems. |
| AARC: Secondhand Smoke |
| Facts that the American Association for Respiratory Care has learned in its search for information about secondhand smoke. |
| Passive Smoking, Ash-uk factsheet #8 |
| Concise summary of the effects of secondhand smoke. |
| Environmental Tobacco Smoke Poster Session |
| Health conference presents short summaries of recent research and experience in secondhand smoke policy and programs. |
| The Shameful History of Secondhand Smoke in Oklahoma |
| The American Lung Association provides the history leading up to the fact that Oklahoma law prohibits smokefree public places. |
| Ask NOAH About: Environmental Health; Secondhand Smoke |
| Full-text consumer health information on environmental health. Information on secondhand smoke. |
| Secondhand Smoke Costs |
| Secondhand smoke costs you $70 per year, according to an economic analysis by a Indiana University professor. |
| Widower Awarded Compensation in First Secondhand Smoke Fatality Case |
| On December 8, 1995, the U.S. Department of Labor ruled that a hospital nurse's cancer death was due to her on-the-job exposure to secondhand smoke. |
| Tobacco Industry Suit Against EPA dismissed |
| Recent court ruling vacates Judge Osteen's 1993 decision, clearing the way for EPA's finding that secondhand smoke is a known human carcinogen. |
| Asthma and Secondhand Smoke |
| Links and resources from the About.com. |
| Guides on Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
| NCTH publications on secondhand smoke; ETS in the workplace; advocacy tools for protecting yourself and others from secondhand smoke; science and health effects; case studies and new developments; best practices and lessons learned. resources for further research. |
| How Dangerous is Passive Smoking? |
| British health group concludes that the weight of the evidence is that secondhand smoke kills. |
| Secondhand Smoke Study |
| A study funded by the tobacco industry concludes that secondhand smoke is harmless, but scientists and health experts disagree. |
| 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. |