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	MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/secondhandsmoke.html Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.
	EPA/ORD/NCEA - Passive Smoking - ETS - http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=2835 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 Secondhand Smoke - http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/10/index.html NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease.
	The Danger of Second Hand Smoke - About.com - http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/secondhandsmoke/ Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
	OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke - http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/index.html Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.

	Environmental Tobacco Smoke - http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/ets/finalreport/finalreport.htm California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.
	Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Dangers - http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/secondhand-smoke/CC00023 Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.
	Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke - http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/health.htm Report, resources, and set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
	KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke - http://www.kiiss.org/ Dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke by educating parents and the public on what secondhand smoke does to children.
	National Center for Environmental Assessment - Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking - http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/ets/etsindex.cfm 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.

	Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke - http://www.ocat.org/healtheffects/ 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.
	Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Related Mortality - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057 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)
	Secondhand Smoke Causes Menstrual Pain - http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2000/108-11/ss.html#smoke 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.
	Environmental TobaccoSmoke and Related Issues - http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/supersite/resources/docs/reference_ets.htm Collection of documents from Australia and elsewhere covers health effects of secondhand smoke, indoor air quality, tobacco related exposures for carcinogens.
	Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke - http://www.cleanlungs.com/education/ List of links on the subject.

	Secondhand Smoke Facts - http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/secondhandsmoke.html Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.
	Secondhand Smoke - A Little Is Dangerous - http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/Secondhand/Secondhand_lid.cfm Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable health hazards.
	Why Air Filtration Devices Are Ineffective - http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=96 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.
	Setting the Record Straight: Secondhand Smoke is A Preventable Health Risk - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/9406EPA.html 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.
	NERC reports on secondhand smoke - http://www.nercenter.org/canned.htm 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.

	Evidence points to health risks of secondhand smoke - http://www.no-smoking.org/may00/05-25-00-3.html Newspaper article reports on the research evidence of secondhand smoke's health effects.
	Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns - http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol280/issue22/index.dtl Research measures lung function, respiratory symptoms, before and after bars went smokefree.
	Other Studies Support EPA on Secondhand Smoke - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/secondhand072098.htm 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.
	Alfred Munzer Statement - http://epw.senate.gov/~epw/105th/munzer.htm 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.
	How Dangerous is Passive Smoking? - http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/html/health_news/270503smoke.html British health group concludes that the weight of the evidence is that secondhand smoke kills.

	Secondhand Smoke Price Tag: $10 Billion a Year - http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/17/news/economy/secondhand_smoke/ Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.
	Passive Smoking - http://www.theberries.ca/BOTW_archives/passive_smoke.html Report on the research; links to published studies.
	Environmental Tobacco Smoke: An Overview - http://psy.ed.asu.edu/~aztec/ets.html Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.
	Passive Smoking, Ash-uk factsheet #8 - http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact08.html Concise summary of the effects of secondhand smoke.
	Passive Smoking: Summary of New Findings - http://www.oldash.org.uk/html/passive/html/passive.html Compilation by ASH-UK includes latest research.

	Environmental Tobacco Smoke Harms and Kills - http://www.gasp.org/environmental.html 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 intimidation and disinformation campaigns.
	Secondhand Smoke and Family and Pets? - http://ivillagehealth.com/experts/smoking/qas/0,11816,242106_128789,00.html Short article on health effects of secondhand smoke.
	Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke - http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/caets/ets-main.htm California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.
	Secondhand Smoke Study - http://my.webmd.com/content/article/64/72529.htm A study funded by the tobacco industry concludes that secondhand smoke is harmless, but scientists and health experts disagree.
	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/20740.html A primary cause of COPD is exposure to secondhand smoke. This article gives the facts on the disease and the risk.

	Deaths in New Zealand from Secondhand Smoke - http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/c7ad5e032528c34c4c2566690076db9b/f52d604cfdcb49364c256973007c4028?OpenDocument There are about 388 deaths caused by secondhand smoke in New Zealand each year. Report explains.
	Fertility Cut by Passive Smoking - http://www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,2763,375532,00.html Report on recent research; when a woman is a nonsmoker but her partner smokes at home, her fertility is reduced.

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