See also:

• Society: Issues: Health: Tobacco: Secondhand Smoke  (97)

• Environmental Tobacco Smoke   - California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.

• 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.
• Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns - Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
• 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.
• The Danger of Second Hand Smoke - About.com - Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
• Deaths in New Zealand from Secondhand Smoke - There are about 388 deaths caused by secondhand smoke in New Zealand each year. Report explains.
• Environmental Tobacco Smoke: An Overview - Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.
• 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 Environmental Tobacco Smoke - Report, resources, and set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
• Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke - California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
• 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.
• Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke - List of links on the subject.
• How Dangerous is Passive Smoking? - British health group concludes that the weight of the evidence is that secondhand smoke kills.
• 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.
• MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke - Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.
• National Center for Environmental Assessment - Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking - Based on the weight of the available scientific evidence, concludes that secondhand smoke in the United States presents a serious and substantial public health impact.
• 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 Smoking - Report on the research; links to published studies.
• Passive Smoking, Ash-uk factsheet #8 - Concise summary of the effects of secondhand smoke.
• Passive Smoking: Summary of New Findings - Compilation by ASH-UK includes latest research.
• Secondhand Smoke - A Little Is Dangerous - Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable health hazards.
• Secondhand Smoke and Family and Pets? - Short article on health effects of secondhand 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.
• Secondhand Smoke Facts - Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.
• Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Dangers - Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.
• 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.

• Seconhand Smoke Price Tag: $10 Billion a Year - Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research. (August 17, 2005)
• 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)
• Evidence points to health risks of secondhand smoke - Newspaper article reports on the research evidence of secondhand smoke's health effects. (May 24, 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)
• 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. (June 1, 1994)