Society, Issues, Health, Tobacco, Secondhand Smoke
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 - From the National Cancer Institute. Exposure measurement and prevalence, developmental toxicity (prenatal and postnatal), reproductive effects, respiratory health effects, carcinogenic effects, cardiovascular effects.
- Booklet created by the Onyx Group for the National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery; facts about secondhand smoke, community response.
- Health conference presents short summaries of recent research and experience in secondhand smoke policy and programs.
- Steps people can take to reduce their exposure to secondhand smoke.
- EPA Pamphlet.
- Think you know about secondhand smoke? A fun quiz.
- Recent court ruling vacates Judge Osteen's 1993 decision, clearing the way for EPA's finding that secondhand smoke is a known human carcinogen.
- Ontario Medical Association outlines the medical facts and their policy position based on those facts.
- Listings of smokefree housing.
- Definition, health effects, costs, and how to reduce secondhand smoke at home and in the workplace.
- NCTH publications on secondhand smoke; ETS in the workplace; advocacy tools for protecting yourself and others from secondhand smoke; science and health effects; case studies and new developments; best practices and lessons learned. resources for further
- Report on the science, the industry's attack on the science, and the practical significance of secondhand smoke, from GASP of Colorado.
- The American Lung Association provides the history leading up to the fact that Oklahoma law prohibits smokefree public places.
- Ad campaign developed by Iowa teens on secondhand smoke .
- A fact sheet about protecting nonsmokers from secondhand smoke, produced by Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. All facts presented with citations to research literature.
- On December 8, 1995, the U.S. Department of Labor ruled that a hospital nurse's cancer death was due to her on-the-job exposure to secondhand smoke.
- Harvard School of Public Health research finds that smokefree policies reduce both secondhand smoke and tobacco addiction.
- 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, and related health problems.
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