Publications

Protect Your Children:  Take the Smoke-free Home Pledge Brochure (Bilingual)

Learn about the harmful health risks of secondhand smoke to children in this bilingual brochure (English and Spanish). You can protect your children by making your home and car smoke-free.  Take the Smoke-Free Home Pledge by calling the toll-free Smoke-Free Home Pledge Hotline at 1-866-SMOKE-FREE (1-866-766-5337) and protect your children from the health risks of secondhand smoke.   [EPA 402-F-04-002]
 

Download your free copy of Smoke-free Home Pledge: Planning Guide for Pledge Events (available in English and Spanish).
 

To support your Smoke-free Home Pledge efforts, this bilingual (English and Spanish) poster encourages parents and caregivers to protect children from secondhand smoke at home and in the car. Dimensions 25 1/2" x 22" [EPA 402-H-04-001]

Environmental Tobacco Smoke: A Health Hazard to Children (Speaker's Kit)

The purpose of the kit is to get pediatricians to use the Kit to inform, educate, and sustain public awareness on the health effects associated with children's exposure to secondhand smoke. The kit was developed to assist pediatricians in educating the general public on secondhand smoke and includes slide shows, speaker's notes, tips, brochures, and more.  [EPA 402-C-02-003]
 

The Secondhand Smoke Community Action Kit

The Secondhand Smoke Community Action Kit has been developed by the U.S. EPA to assist community leaders in educating communities about the dangers of secondhand smoke.  This information will help them develop strategies and locate resources necessary to implement a community-based campaign to reduce children's exposure to secondhand smoke.  The kit contains a number of products and ideas - each with its own "blueprint" to help you get results.  Specific projects are identified and the project's purpose, methods of achieving the goal, evaluation mechanisms, and detailed action steps are discussed.  The kit incorporates a wide range of strategies, including the Smoke-Free Home Campaign, The Secondhand Smoke Media Campaign, and the American Lung Association Guide - "Secondhand Smoke and Children: Conducting Public Outreach Programs."  [EPA 402-K-00-005]
 

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Poster

Created by American Academy of Pediatrics and the EPA, this poster delivers clear messages to parents on the serious health risk of secondhand smoke to children.  Poster dimensions - 11" x 14 1/2" [EPA 402-H-99-001]

"Here's the Pitch" Poster

In this poster, President Bush and the EPA help to strike-out asthma by raising awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke.  Post dimensions 11" x 22" [EPA 402-H-02-001]
 

HUMO... de segunda mano  

Qué puede hacer usted sobre el humo de segunda mano como padre, personal directivo y ocupante de un edificio,
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Secondhand Smoke: What You Can Do as Parents, Decision-makers, and Building Occupants

Defines secondhand smoke and describes health risks from exposure to secondhand smoke. This leaflet provides steps to take to reduce the health risks of passive smoke in the home, in the workplace, in restaurants and bars, and other indoor places.
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Children and Secondhand Smoke

This straightforward black and white brochure was specifically designed for easy distribution. A PDF version of the brochure  (68KB file) is also available that can be printed off and copied for distribution. The brochure exemplifies the focus of the Indoor Environments Program's efforts to minimize the exposure of secondhand smoke to children indoors.  [Available online only]

Este folleto en blanco y negro, escrito en forma clara y sencilla, fue diseñado específicamente para una distribución fácil. Una versión en PDF (67KB) del folleto también se puede imprimir y copiar para ser distribuida. El folleto ejemplifica el enfoque en los esfuerzos del Programa de Ambientes Interiores para mínimizar la exposición de los niños al humo de tabaco de segunda mano en ambientes interiores. [Available online only]
 

Setting the Record Straight: Secondhand Smoke is a Preventable Health Risk

Provides detailed responses to the specific criticisms of EPA's assessment of lung cancer data included in the 1993 report,  Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, EPA/600/6-90/006F, December, 1992 (You can download a PDF version of this risk assessment from this link). EPA stands by the 1993 report, which found that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and increases the risk of bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthma in children.
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Fact Sheet: Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking

Describes EPA's major assessment of the respiratory health risks associated with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, EPA/600/6-90/006F, December, 1992 (You can download a PDF version of this risk assessment from this link). This landmark assessment concluded that widespread exposure to ETS in the U.S. presents a serious and substantial public health risk.
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