Health Effects

• • "Secondhand tobacco smoke in Oklahoma: a preventable cause of mortality and morbidity and means of reducing exposure,"  The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, March 2002, 95(3); 135-141. (6143k)
    
    
  • Table: Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke (5.2k)
    
    
  • 1986 Surgeon General Report
    The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking
    
    
  • National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health "Environmental Tobacco Smoke in the Workplace: Lung Cancer and Other Health Effects." (1991)
    
    
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    National Center for Environmental Assessment
    Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking (1993)
    
    
  • U.S. Department of Labor
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    Proposed Rules - Indoor Air Quality (1994)
    
    
  • Consumer Reports (1995)
    
    
  • National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
    Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (1999)
    
    
  • National Toxicology Program
    10th Report on Carcinogens (2000) (.pdf document)
    
    
  • Position statement of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine on "Epidemiological Basis for an Occupational and Environmental Policy on Environmental Tobacco Smoke." (2000)
    
    
  • World Health Organization - International Agency for Research on Cancer (2002)
    
    
  • Comprehensive Fact Sheet on Secondhand Smoke presented at the 2nd European Conference on Tobacco or Health
    
    
  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
    and Health Promotion Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) - Secondhand Smoke
    
    
  • American Lung Association
    Secondhand Smoke
    
    
  • American Heart Association
    Environmental Tobacco Smoke
    
    
  • American Cancer Society
    Secondhand Smoke
    
    
  • Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights