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» 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.
   http://epw.senate.gov/~epw/105th/munzer.htm

» Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns
   Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
   http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol280/issue22/index.dtl

» 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.
   http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/20740.html

» Deaths in New Zealand from Secondhand Smoke
   There are about 388 deaths caused by secondhand smoke in New Zealand each year. Report explains.
   http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/c7ad5e032528c34c4c2566690076db9b/f52d604cfdcb49364c256973007c4028?OpenDocument

» 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 effe
   http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=2835

» 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
   http://www.gasp.org/environmental.html

» 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)
   http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057

» Environmental Tobacco Smoke: An Overview
   Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.
   http://psy.ed.asu.edu/~aztec/ets.html

» 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.
   http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/supersite/resources/docs/reference_ets.htm

» Evidence points to health risks of secondhand smoke
   Newspaper article reports on the research evidence of secondhand smoke's health effects.
   http://www.no-smoking.org/may00/05-25-00-3.html

» 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.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/sep/30/smoking

» Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke
   Report, resources, and set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
   http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/health.htm

» Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
   California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
   http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/caets/ets-main.htm

» Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
   NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease.
   http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/10/index.html

» Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke
   List of links on the subject.
   http://www.cleanlungs.com/education/

» How Dangerous is Passive Smoking?
   British health group concludes that the weight of the evidence is that secondhand smoke kills.
   http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/html/health_news/270503smoke.html

» 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.
   http://www.kiiss.org/

» MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke
   Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/secondhandsmoke.html

» 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.
   http://www.nercenter.org/canned.htm

» 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.
   http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/ets/etsindex.cfm

» OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke
   Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.
   http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/index.html

» 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.
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/secondhand072098.htm

» Passive Smoking
   Report on the research; links to published studies.
   http://www.theberries.ca/BOTW_archives/passive_smoke.html

» Passive Smoking, Ash-uk factsheet #8
   Concise summary of the effects of secondhand smoke.
   http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact08.html

» Passive Smoking: Summary of New Findings
   Compilation by ASH-UK includes latest research.
   http://www.oldash.org.uk/html/passive/html/passive.html

» Secondhand Smoke - A Little Is Dangerous
   Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable health hazards.
   http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/Secondhand/Secondhand_lid.cfm

» 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.
   http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2000/108-11/ss.html#smoke

» Secondhand Smoke Facts
   Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.
   http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/secondhandsmoke.html

» Secondhand 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.
   http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/17/news/economy/secondhand_smoke/

» Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Dangers
   Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.
   http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/secondhand-smoke/CC00023

» 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.
   http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/9406EPA.html

» The Danger of Second Hand Smoke - About.com
   Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
   http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/secondhandsmoke/

» 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, sulf
   http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=96