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	Environmental Tobacco Smoke - http://216.185.112.5/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4521 American Heart Association: secondhand smoke causes heart disease and nearly doubles the risk of heart attack.
	Secondhand Smoke and Heart Attacks - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/bmj.38055.715683.55v1 Research finds that exposure to secondhand smoke increases incidence of heart attacks.
	Cardiovascular Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Nearly as Large as Smoking - http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/111/20/2684 Review of recent research finds the effects of secondhand smoke on the heart and cardiovascular system are nearly as bad as smoking itself.
	Repace Associates - Secondhand Smoke and Cardiovascular Disease - http://www.repace.com/fact_cardio.html Reviews the literature up to most recent publications; presents summary and graphs results for major research items.
	Online NewsHour: Second Hand Smoke - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/may97/smoking_5-20.html Interview with researcher on effect of secondhand smoke on heart health.

	Secondhand smoke and schaemic heart disease: an evaluation of the evidence - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/315/7114/973?ijkey=zdKc.10Ii15r6 Analysis of 19 epidemiological studies shows that people who have never smoked have 30% greater risk of ischaemic heart disease if they live with a smoker.
	Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and ischaemic heart disease: an evaluation of the evidence - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/315/7114/973 Article from the British Medical Journal.
	Passive Tobacco Smoke And Heart Disease - http://www.heartdisease.about.com/library/news/blnws01031.htm Summary of recent research showing that secondhand smoke causes more heart disease than cancer.
	Unfavorable Effects of Passive Smoking on Aortic Function - http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/128/6/426 Report in Annals of Internal Medicine. Research directly measured effects of secondhand smoke on blood vessels.
	One Half Hour of Passive Smoking Damages Heart - http://www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,2763,526991,00.html News report on research that shows that breathing secondhand smoke for just 30 minutes can damage the heart.

	Secondhand Smoke Shortens Life - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1063685,00.html One of the largest studies on secondhand smoke ever done finds that people who lived with a smoker die sooner than people who don't.
	Acute Effects of Passive Smoking on the Coronary Circulation in Healthy Young Adults - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/286/4/436 Recent research shows that even brief exposure to secondhand smoke affects heart health.
	ETS exposure increases heart attack risk - http://ash.org/dangers/heartattack.html ETS may be responsible for as many as 40,000 heart attacks a year. 13 of 14 recent epidemiological studies have shown an increased risk for coronary heart disease.
	Secondhand Smoke Breaks Down Blood Vessel - http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/7e57a.htm Research results: After spending only 30 minutes in a smoke-filled room, participants in a study had losses in their blood levels of antioxidants.
	Secondhand Smoke and Acute Coronary Syndromes - http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/2/9 Research finds that even small exposures to secondhand smoke can damage health and even kill.

	Epidemiologic Studies of Fatal and Nonfatal Cardiovascular Disease and ETS Exposure from Spousal Smoking - http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1999/suppl-6/841-846thun/abstract.html "The evidence linking heart disease and ETS exposure from a spouse has become substantially stronger since OSHA first proposed including heart disease in its risk assessment of ETS in 1994".
	Tobacco and Cardiovascular Disease - http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/cvd/page1.htm Section on secondhand smoke and heart disease.
	Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Heart Disease - http://www.ocat.org/healtheffects/heartdisease.html Describes the effect of secondhand smoke on circulation and the heart, and provides a bibliography of relevant research.
	Six-month Public Smoking Ban Slashes Heart Attack Rate in Community - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-04/uoc--sps032603.php In the first study of its kind, researchers have found that the number of heart attack victims admitted to a regional hospital dropped by nearly 60 percent during the first six months that a smoke-free ordinance was in effect in the community.
	Secondhand Smoke a First-Rate Danger - http://smokefreeoregon.com/bars/smokefacts/index.php Secondhand smoke is now recognized as a significant cardiovascular health hazard; summary of findings of 18 recent research studies.

	Washington Post: Secondhand Smoke Linked to Increased Heart Attack Rate - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/secondhand.htm Article on a major study finding that high exposure to secondhand smoke nearly doubles a woman's risk of having a heart attack.
	NEJM -- Passive Smoking and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease -- A Meta-Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies - http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/340/12/920 Review of the scientific literature finds that passive smoking is consistently associated with an increased risk of heart disease across a wide variety of studies.
	Secondhand Smoke as a Cause of Atherosclerotic Disease - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/279/2/157 Article in a medical journal summarizes the research findings that secondhand smoke causes heart disease that may be irreversible.
	CNN - Study: Passive smoke an even greater risk - http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9705/19/nfm.passive.smoke/index.html New research provides some of the strongest evidence yet that constant exposure to passive smoke nearly doubles the risk of heart attack and death in non-smokers.
	Secondhand Smoke Ups Heart Attack Risk - http://www.cliving.org/NEWS/MARCH98/SECONDHA.HTM Nonsmoking individuals living with heavy smokers have four times the risk of heart attack compared with those who live in smoke-free environments, according to a study.

Passive Smoking and Heart disease: Epidemiology, Physiology, and Biochemistry - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1984876?dopt=Abstract
Review of the scientific literature outlines the mechanisms and documents the risk (the third leading preventable cause of death in America).

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