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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.

	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.

	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.
	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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