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Secondhand Smoke
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Latest News
- Latest News
- Passive Smoking Affects IVF Success Rates (05/26/2005, Reuters Health)
- Secondhand Smoke Packs Heavy Toll; Nearly As Significant As Smoking (05/24/2005, American Heart Association)
From the National Institutes of Health
- From the National Institutes of Health
- I Mind Very Much If You Smoke (National Cancer Institute)
- Secondhand Smoke: Questions and Answers (National Cancer Institute)
Overviews
- Overviews
- Health Harms from Secondhand Smoke (National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids) - Links to PDF
- Secondhand Smoke and Your Family (American Lung Association)
Also available in: Spanish - Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Dangers (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking (Environmental Protection Agency)
Newsletters/Print Publications
- Newsletters/Print Publications
- Smoke-Free Homes (Environmental Protection Agency)
Research
- Research
- America's Children and the Environment (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Infants Exposed to Secondhand Smoke Have Higher Hospital Admission Rates (Nemours Foundation)
- Protecting Children from Tobacco Smoke Exposure: What's Effective, What's Not (Nemours Foundation)
- Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: Cotinine (National Center for Environmental Health)
- Studies Highlight Dangers of Secondhand Smoke: Findings Support Clean Air Efforts (American Cancer Society)
- Study Shows Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Greater for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Children (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
Organizations
- Organizations
- American Cancer Society
- American Lung Association
- Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids)
- Environmental Protection Agency, Indoor Environments Division
- National Cancer Institute
- Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)
Law and Policy
- Law and Policy
- Secondhand Smoke: Progress Is Slow in Efforts to Enact State Laws on Smoke-Free Air (National Cancer Institute)
- State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues (SLATI) (American Lung Association)
Statistics
- Statistics
- Facts about Secondhand Smoke (American Cancer Society)
- Facts and Figures (American Cancer Society)
- Secondhand Smoke (American Lung Association)
- Secondhand Smoke and Children (American Lung Association)
Children
- Children
- Secondhand Smoke and Children (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
Women
- Women
- Harm Caused by Pregnant Women Smoking or Being Exposed to Secondhand Smoke (National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids) - Links to PDF