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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.

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.

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.

Environmental Tobacco Smoke - http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/ets/finalreport/finalreport.htm
California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.

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)

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.

Environmental Tobacco Smoke: An Overview - http://psy.ed.asu.edu/~aztec/ets.html
Brief presentation of effects of secondhand smoke, review of the science.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke - http://www.cleanlungs.com/education/
List of links on the subject.

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.

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.

MedlinePlus: Secondhand Smoke - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/secondhandsmoke.html
Resources from the U.S. National Library of Health.

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.

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.

OEHHA: Secondhand Smoke - http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/index.html
Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke; an environmental health hazard analysis.

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.

Passive Smoking - http://www.theberries.ca/BOTW_archives/passive_smoke.html
Report on the research; links to published studies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Secondhand Smoke Facts - http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/secondhandsmoke.html
Short factsheet from the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology.

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.

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.

Secondhand Smoke: Protect Yourself from the Dangers - http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/secondhand-smoke/CC00023
Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.

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.

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.

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.

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