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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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 effects.
Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke - Characterizes the risk, provides a research bibliography, breaks down the exposure by toxins and carcinogens, and enumerates the scientific bodies that have concluded that secondhand smoke causes disease.
Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke - NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease.
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.
OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke - Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.
Passive Smoke - National Jewish Medical and Research Center provides facts about passive smoke.
Passive Smoking - Report on the research; links to published studies.
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.
Secondhand Smoke Facts - Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.
Secondhand Smoke Study - A study funded by the tobacco industry concludes that secondhand smoke is harmless, but scientists and health experts disagree.
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, sulfur compounds, nitriles, hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones.
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. (September 30, 2000)
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. (July 20, 1998)
- California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.
