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MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke
Resources from the US National Library of Health.
Children and Secondhand Smoke
Pamphlet on effects of secondhand smoke on children, from the American Academy
of Otolarlyngology.
Some studies suggest that smoking during pregnancy causes birth defects such as cleft lip or palate
Smoking mothers produce less milk, and their babies have a lower birth weight
Maternal smoking also is associated with neonatal death from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, the major cause of death in infants between one month and one year of age
The Brain: Children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer behavioral problems such as hyperactivity than children of non-smoking mothers
What Can You Do To Avoid Secondhand Smoke? Stop smoking, if you do smoke
If it is not possible to stop their smoking, ask them, and visitors, to smoke outside of your home
Do not allow smoking in your car
Taking Action Against Secondhand Smoke Toolkit | TIPS
CDC's page on secondhand smoke.
, The widespread practice of smoking in buildings exposes nonsmoking occupants to combustion by-products under conditions where airborne contaminant removal is slow and uncertain
Over the past two decades, medical science has shown that nonsmokers suffer many of the diseases of active smoking when they breathe secondhand smoke
Second Hand Smoke & Kids
Second hand smoke is a major cause of children's illness -- yet 85% of adults
who smoke and who live with a child do not ensure that the child is not exposed to ...
PSC analysis of Smoking in Canadian homes with Children (PDF) (PDF) (PDF) Background on Smoking & Kids' health (PDF) (PDF) (PDF) Background on Smoking & Kids' health Second-hand smoke (which is sometimes called environmental tobacco smoke or ETS) contains toxic substances, over 40 of which cause cancer
Smoking and the sudden infant death syndrome: results from 1993-5 case-control study for confidential inquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy
Smokers and those who live with smokers are less likely to acknowledge the health effects of smoking
[Survey on Smoking in Canada, 1994-95, Cycle 2, Statistics Canada] … but don’t know of the direct impact on children’s health … Only 1 in 5 Canadians surveyed believed that second-hand smoke could cause ear infections
Even among those who know that second-hand smoke poses a danger, many mistakenly believe that children’s health is only harmed by smoking directly around them
[Survey on Smoking in Canada 1994-95, Cycle 2] In smoker’s homes, an average of 18 cigarettes a day are smoked
Smokers are more likely to have mainly smokers in their social circle, and their children are more likely to be in contact with these smoking friends and relatives than are the children of non-smokers
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Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
 You are here: >>> FREE Newsletter Sign Up Now for the Smoking Cessation newsletter!   Search > The Dangers of Second Hand Smoke Secondhand smoke is a toxic by-product of smoking tobacco which affects anyone who is exposed to it
Passive smoking is defined as the involuntary inhalation by a nonsmoker of a combination of diluted sidestream smoke and mainstream smoke
Take a look at how secondhand smoke affects nonsmoking adults and children
This report from the EPA opens our eyes to the dangers for those exposed to this toxic byproduct of smoking
Secondhand Smoke: What It Is, How to Avoid It, Who's at Risk ...
National Jewish Medical and Research Center provides facts about passive smoke.
OMA position paper on second hand smoke
Ontario Medical Association outlines the medical facts and their policy position
based on those facts.
As far back as 1974, the OMA identified the need to protect those who do not use tobacco products, yet are exposed to the byproducts of smoking
A 1983 OMA conference on passive smoking highlighted the Association's concern with regard to second-hand smoke, * and brought this important health issue to the attention of major organizations and groups of influence in the community
Physicians were urged to discourage smoking in their workplaces, including hospitals, offices and waiting rooms, to protect patients and staff from the dangers of second-hand smoke
Second-hand smoke ranks third as a major preventable cause of death behind only active smoking and alcohol
Lung cancer Second-hand smoke is the third-ranking known cause of lung cancer after active smoking and indoor radon
15 Paternal as well as maternal smoking is associated with low infant birth weight
Parental smoking is also a significant risk factor for postnatal deaths, especially due to respiratory disease and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
If no workplace smoking restrictions exist, non-smokers are most exposed to second-hand smoke in the workplace
BBC NEWS | Health | Second-hand smoke 'causes cancer'
The largest review to date examined 50 studies on secondhand smoke, and concludes
that secondhand smoke causes cancer of the lung, uterus, cervix, liver, ...
SEARCH You are in: -- -- -- -- SERVICES -- EDITIONS Wednesday, 19 June, 2002, 14:06 GMT 15:06 UK Second-hand smoke 'causes cancer' The experts examined previous studies into smoking Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke increases the risk of developing lung cancer, international experts have said
A working group from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization, examined all of the major studies looking at smoking and cancer
Passive smoking is quite clearly more than just the nuisance many of the world's tobacco companies would have us believe Marsha Williams, ASH The experts also found cancers of the stomach, liver, uterus, cervix, kidney and myeloid leukaemia could be caused in part by smoking
This means hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide from these cancers could now be linked to smoking
Definite link Dr Kurt Straif, who organised the IARC meeting, said the group examined 50 studies examining the link between passive smoking and cancer
'That has been discussed for a long time but this is the first time a group of independent scientists have reviewed all the evidence and said there is no question it is a cause of lung cancer.' Sir Richard said the findings should have a significant influence on health policies around the world and could strengthen arguments for a ban in this country on smoking in workplaces
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Passive Smoking: Fact Sheet no. 8 - ASH Concise summary of the effects of
secondhand smoke.
factsheet no:8 Secondhand smoke Action on Smoking and Health March 2006 Introduction Breathing other people's smoke is called passive, involuntary or secondhand smoking
1 How does this affect the passive smoker? Some of the immediate effects of passive smoking include eye irritation, headache, cough, sore throat, dizziness and nausea
In the longer term, passive smokers suffer an increased risk of a range of smoking-related diseases. Non-smokers who are exposed to passive smoking in the home, have a 25 per cent increased risk of heart disease and lung cancer
A major review by the Government-appointed Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH) concluded that passive smoking is a cause of lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease in adult non-smokers, and a cause of respiratory disease, cot death, middle ear disease and asthmatic attacks in children
A review of the risks of cancer from exposure to secondhand smoke by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) noted that the evidence is sufficient to conclude that involuntary smoking is a cause of lung cancer in never smokers
[7] A study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that previous studies of the effects of passive smoking on the risk of heart disease may have been under-estimated. The researchers found that blood cotinine levels among non-smokers were associated with a 50-60% increased risk of heart disease
How dangerous is second-hand cigarette smoke?
The immediate and long-term health effects of exposure to second-hand smoke;
links to other sites for information on passive smoking, indoor air quality, ...
Secondhand Smoke - DrGreene.com
Report on 1996 study: "the relative risk for breast cancer from passive
smoke (primarily girls whose parent smoked or women whose spouse smoked) was 3.2!
The impact of secondhand smoke is so large that it masked the effect of active smoking in many studies
In 1996, the American Journal of Epidemiology published an important article that for the first time strongly linking cigarette smoking with
The relative risk from passive smoke (primarily girls whose parent smoked or women whose spouse smoked) was 3.2! According to this study, this would make passive smoking a more important risk factor than having a mother with breast cancer (2.1), or having an (1.3), or having a late first pregnancy (1.4)
Although not having active smoking in the same room greatly reduces the amount of exposure, as long as you can smell the smoke you and
Secondhand Smoke and Community Laws
"Why you should be concerned about breathing tobacco smoke, and how to start
thinking about a smoking ordinance for your community."
Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in America today, with over from tobacco-related causes
Refraining from smoking during pregnancy and around children will give them a healthier start in life
So if you're dining out, and you or someone else in the room is smoking, your health and that of your dinner companion is suffering
But not here in California, where state law prohibits smoking in restaurants and almost all other workplaces
In addition, 281 California communities have passed their own local smoking restrictions
How (and why) to pass a local smoking law Local smoking legislation helps make the indoor air safer in your town, but there are other benefits as well
And since many smokers sincerely want to quit, smoking restrictions can provide that additional incentive to kick the addiction
One town may be ready to ban smoking in all workplaces and indoor public places
Another may start with a prohibition on smoking in schools and hospitals, or tobacco advertising near schools
Experience shows that once a community sees that initial smoking restrictions don't cause problems, better protection for nonsmokers can be enacted
SECOND HAND SMOKING ?
Secondhand Smoke Breaks Down Blood Vessel "Smoke Screen"
Research results: After spending only 30 minutes in a smoke-filled room, participants
in a study had losses in their blood levels of antioxidants.
The researchers measured antioxidants in blood from 10 healthy nonsmoking men and women after they spent 30 minutes in a room full of cigarette smoke
Passive smoking caused a 31 percent drop in TRAP values
"We found that a short period of passive smoking changed cholesterol metabolism, favoring progression of atherosclerosis, " he says
Online NewsHour: Second Hand Smoke -- May 20, 1997
Interview with researcher on effect of secondhand smoke on heart health.
CHARLES KRAUSE: For years scientists published data showing a direct link between cigarette smoking and heart disease
ICHIRO KAWACHI: We followed a group of about 32, 000 women over a period of 10 years to see whether passive smoking might increase the risk of heart attack
ICHIRO KAWACHI: Basically, we took advantage of a 20-year-long ongoing study of women, and about halfway through the study, we sent out a questionnaire asking them whether they were exposed to passive smoking in the home and in the workplace, and then we just sat and waited and saw what happened to them in terms of their heart attack rates
ICHIRO KAWACHI: Well, there have been previous studies passing smoking and heart attack, but there have been two criticisms leveled at studies that have been done in the past
ICHIRO KAWACHI: Well, aside from exposure to passive smoking, we asked about their diet, their fat intake, their exercise levels, family history of heart attack, whether they had high blood pressure or high cholesterol, their body weight and so on and so forth
And after taking account of all of these differences and comparing like woman with like, the only difference being that one group was exposed to passive smoking while the other was not, we still found that women exposed to passive smoking were at about twice the risk of heart attack
Secondhand Smoke - Allergic Reactions to Secondhand Smoke
Collection of resources on secondhand smoke as an environmental health problem.
Need another reason to quit smoking? If you can't quit for yourself, quit for your kids
Understanding the effects of second hand smoke on our kids may help you give up smoking
A few of the 4, 000 chemicals in Environmental Tobacco Smoke are listed from Table 3-1, 1992 EPA Report, Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is responsible for approximately 3, 000 lung cancer deaths each year in nonsmoking adults and impairs the respiratory health of hundreds of thousands of children
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 ...
Involuntary smoking involves inhaling carcinogens, as well as other toxic components, that are present in both mainstream and sidestream smoke
Tobacco Smoke and Involuntary Smoking
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded in its 2002 Monograph on tobacco smoke and second-hand smoke that that 'there is sufficient evidence that involuntary smoking (exposure to second-hand or 'environmental' tobacco smoke) causes lung cancer in humans and makes the overall evaluation that Involuntary smoking (exposure to secondhand or 'environmental' tobacco smoke) is carcinogenic to humans (Group 1)
Involuntary smoking involves exposure to the same numerous carcinogens and toxic substances that are present in mainstream tobacco smoke
Tobacco Smoke and Involuntary Smoking
focused on the carcinogenic effects of active smoking and raised concerns that involuntary smoking may cause lung cancer
National Research Council concluded 'involuntary smoking is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in healthy smokers.' Since 1986, more than 100 major studies have examined the health effects of exposure to second-hand smoke, and most (about 63%), have found evidence of harm, from respiratory problems through to lung cancer (
Secondhand Smoke Fact Sheet - Repace Associates
Emphasis is on measurements taken at workplaces: offices, bars, casinos, airlines,
and so on.
Repace, MSc., Physicist Ichiro Kawachi, PhD, Associate Professor Stanton Glantz, PhD., Professor 9/1/99 Secondhand Smoke Exposure SHS is a complex mixture of gas and particle-phase chemicals generated during the burning and smoking of tobacco products (CalEPA, 1997)
Under typical conditions of smoking, building occupancy, and ventilation, indoor smoking produces levels of RSP far in excess of the U.S
To illustrate the effect of this air pollution on restaurant and bar workers, Eisner et al.(1998) studied the association between ETS exposure and respiratory symptoms in a cohort of 53 bartenders before and after Californias prohibition on smoking in all bars and taverns
The risks of passive smoking can be estimated for groups of individuals based upon levels of the nicotine metabolite, cotinine, in blood, saliva, or urine (Repace and Lowrey, 1993; Repace et al., 1998) [Appendix B]
Lifetime risk of mortality for a group of office workers in workplaces with unrestricted smoking estimated as a function of salivary cotinine
nonsmoking office workers exposed under such conditions are estimated to exceed highly unsafe (i.e., significant risk ) occupational regulatory levels
Help for Tobacco Addiction
Effects, quitting information, QandA, secondhand smoke. "If Tobacco does not kill
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Msg: I am in love with someone who has been smoking since he was like 14 and he's 18 and i want to help him quit but i read that Nicoderm and Nicorette don't work because they only help you with the >nicotine not the sugar because its really a sugar addiction
I've tried telling him facts about smoking but he wont listen so can you give me some good solid information that will scare him to death and make him quit cold turkey? >signed, Chelsea Response Chelsea, There are many forms of addiction but they share several elements in common: 1) There is an addictive chemical component which in this case is nicotine
In the case of smoking people continue to smoke to maintain a nicotine high even though it is very expensive and very injurious to health
There is not a shred of doubt as to the injurious effects of smoking but smokers continue to claim that it won't effect them
I know that if you are still smoking when one of our children asked about health and life that your moral authority would be fatally compromised
Researchers at the University of British Columbia are conducting an online study about people’s experiences quitting smoking and their thoughts about cravings
Children and second-hand smoke
Online pamphlet from the Canadian Cancer Society.
They are also exposed to second-hand smoke in public places such as restaurants and malls that may not be smoke-free, and in other public buildings where there are not enough smoking restrictions
 Scientists have also shown that there is a link between a parentâs smoking and their infantâs risk of dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
You can: make your home and vehicle smoke-free spaces work with your childâs daycare and school officials to make sure these places and surrounding property are smoke-free support local efforts to ban smoking in all public places, including child care centres demand that politicians asking for your vote press for smoke-free legislation quit smoking or help a loved one quit  Last modified on: 14 January 2006 RELATED INFORMATION | 2006 Canadian Cancer Society
Secondhand Smoke: The Science - no-smoke.org
A fact sheet about protecting nonsmokers from secondhand smoke, produced by
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. All facts presented with citations to research ...
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