Search The Directory The Web for Home > Health > Addictions > Substance Abuse > Tobacco > Secondhand Smoke > Health_Risks New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   NERC reports on secondhand smoke - National Environmental Respiratory Center has reports on effects of secondhand smoke on: allergies, asthma, emphysema, lung and heart function, and more. 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.   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.   Poster sessions on secondhand smoke - From a conference on tobacco. Secondhand smoke as a cause of lung cancer in dogs living with smokers; analysis of infants' breathing; effect on allergies; effect on development; measurements of exposure.   RRT: report on secondhand smoke - College paper, fully footnoted, on secondhand smoke, by a student at the Respiratory Therapy Program of Fanshawe College in Canada.   Reporting Results of Studies: Passive Smoking - How to understand statistics, using passive smoking as an example.   Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking - Short EPA report. "Based on the weight of the available scientific evidence, EPA has concluded that the widespread exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the U.S. presents a serious and substantial public health risk."   Science and Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke - NCTH collection of web resources on the subject.   Secondhand Smoke - Quick rundown of the health effects.   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 Increases Risk of Infections - People who smoke cigarettes or breathe secondhand smoke are at a higher risk of pneumonia or meningitis.   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.   TRDRP Annual Investigators Meeting 1998 Proceedings - Poster session on effects of secondhand smoke on health. Measurement; quantification; effects on lungs; exposure to infants; chemical analysis; effects on epethelial cells; models.   The Health Effects of Passive Smoking - A scientific information paper on the health effects of passive smoking. November 1997.   The Health Effects of Passive Smoking - A scientific information paper on the health effects of passive smoking. November 1997.   The Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Scientific Information - An extensive review of evidence published in peer-reviewed scientific journals linking passive smoking to disease including asthma in children, lower respiratory illness, lung cancer, major coronary conditions and other illnesses.   The Seattle Times: Passive smoke is more than a nuisance - May 1998 literature review, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, evaluated more than 100 major studies on the health effects of passive smoking. 63% found harm, ranging from respiratory problems to cancer. Of the studiess that were inconclusive or found no health effects, three quarters were written by scientists affiliated with the tobacco industry.   Tobacco - IPRC Factline - "Second-hand smoke is the nation's No. 1 airborne carcinogen, killing more people than all other forms of air pollution combined."   Tobacco Facts: Environmental Tobacco Smoke - From the University of Waterloo in Canada.     [ 1 2 3 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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