Secondhand Smoke (Print Version)

From the National Institutes of Health

Environmental Tobacco Smoke (National Cancer Institute) - http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_9.htm
I Mind Very Much If You Smoke (National Cancer Institute) - http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface/I_mind_if_you_smoke/mindsmo.html

Overviews

Health Harms from Secondhand Smoke (National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids) - Links to PDF File - http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0103.pdf
Passive Smoke (National Jewish Medical and Research Center) - http://www.nationaljewish.org/medfacts/passive.html
Secondhand Smoke and Your Family (American Lung Association) - http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b;=39858
Also available in Spanish - http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b;=36782

Specific Conditions

Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/pubs/etsfs.html
Ventilation Technology Does Not Protect People from Secondhand Tobacco Smoke (National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids) - Links to PDF File - http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0145.pdf

Prevention/Screening

Secondhand Smoke: What You Can Do about Secondhand Smoke As Parents, Decision-Makers and Building Occupants (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/publications.html
Also available in Spanish - http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/humo.html

Research

America's Children and the Environment (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/envirohealth/children/
Infants Exposed to Secondhand Smoke Have Higher Hospital Admission Rates (Nemours Foundation) - http://kidshealth.org/research/infants_secondhand_smoke.html
Protecting Children from Tobacco Smoke Exposure: What's Effective, What's Not (Nemours Foundation) - http://kidshealth.org/research/tobacco_smoke_exposure.html
Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: Cotinine (National Center for Environmental Health) - http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/2nd/cotinine_factsheet.htm
Study Shows Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Greater for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Children (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2004/niehs-15.htm

Organizations

American Cancer Society - http://www.cancer.org/
American Lung Association - http://www.lungusa.org/
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids) - http://tobaccofreekids.org/
CDC's TIPS: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
EPA, Office of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) (Environmental Protection Agency, Indoor Environments Division) - http://www.epa.gov/iaq/
National Cancer Institute - http://www.cancer.gov/

Law and Policy

State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues (SLATI) (American Lung Association) - http://slati.lungusa.org/

Statistics

Secondhand Smoke and Children (American Lung Association) - http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b;=39857
State-Specific Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking among Adults, and Policies and Attitudes about Secondhand Smoke--U.S., 2000 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5049a1.htm

Women

Harm Caused by Pregnant Women Smoking or Being Exposed to Secondhand Smoke (National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids) - Links to PDF File - http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0007.pdf

Children

Secondhand Smoke and Children (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery) - http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/tobacco/secondhand_smoke.cfm
Secondhand Smoke Endangers Health for Children of All Ages (American Cancer Society) - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/nws/content/nws_2_1x_secondhand_smoke_endangers_health_of_all_children.asp

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Page last updated: 27 October 2004
Topic last reviewed: 20 June 2004