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- Chemicals in Smoke - Factsheets and papers on: how cigarettes are tested for chemical content; total yearly chemical emissions from secondhand smoke; comparison of secondhand smoke and air pollution; estimates of amounts of 30 chemicals a restaurant worker would inhale in an 8 hour shift; description of tobacco smoke components; threshold limit values for chemicals found in tobacco smoke.
- 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.
- 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.
- Designated "No Smoking" Areas Provide Little Protection from Secondhand Smoke - Research measures secondhand smoke in "no smoking" areas, and finds that little protection is provided compared to the exposures in the smoking area.
- Tobacco Industry Knew Dangers of Secondhand Smoke Since the Mid-1970's - GASP of Colorado Education Center report uses internal tobacco industry memos to show tobacco industry decisions to: coverup what it knew about secondhand smoke and its health effects; mislead the public on secondhand smoke; create the appearance of scientific controversy when there was none.
- 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 and Children - Pamphlet on effects of secondhand smoke on children, from the American Academy of Otolarlyngology.
- Secondhand Smoke Causes Cancer - The largest review to date examined 50 studies on secondhand smoke, and concludes that secondhand smoke causes cancer of the lung, uterus, cervix, liver, and kidneys.
- 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.
- Cardiovascular Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Nearly as Large as Smoking - Review of recent research finds the effects of secondhand smoke on the heart and cardiovascular system are nearly as bad as smoking itself.
Wikipedia Articles
- Smoke-free restaurant - A smoke-free restaurant is a dining establishment in which smoking is banned. These restaurants are increasing in number due to the growing awareness across the world of the need to protect both employees and clients against exposure to secondhand smoke.