Tobacco
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- NERC reports on secondhand smoke
- 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.
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- National Center for Environmental Assessment - Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking
- 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.
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- The Danger of Second Hand Smoke - About.com
- Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
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- Why Air Filtration Devices Are Ineffective
- 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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- Other Studies Support EPA on Secondhand Smoke
- 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. (July 20, 1998)
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- Carcinogens in 5 leading brands of snuff
- Scientific paper measures levels of carcinogenic N-nitrosamines in 5 leading U.S. brands of moist snuff.
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- Skoal and Urban Cowboy
- A 1980 marketing report for Skoal provides an inside look at promotion of spit tobacco; in this report, U.S. Tobacco plans to link its brand to the popular 1980 movie "Urban Cowboy".
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- Tobacco Intervention Network
- Over 9,000 dentists, hygienists, cessation counselors, physicians, psychologists and other health professionals who want to help their patients quit the use of spit tobacco. How to quit spit tobacco, how health professionals can help their patients quit, news, and posters and videos on the subject.
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- Chewing Tobacco Hampers Ability to Perform Complex Tasks
- The nicotine in spit tobacco reduces an individual's ability to perform complex tasks that require hand and body movements to adjust to new visual feedback, according to new research. (November 17, 1999)
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- Passive Smoking As Well As Active Smoking Increases the Risk of Acute Stroke
- Article summarizes the epidemiology.
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- Passive Smoking Increases the Risk of Acute Stroke
- Population-based case-control study of residents of Auckland, New Zealand finds a significantly increased risk of stroke in both men and women.
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- Passive smoking and risk of stroke seems a solid connection
- Letter to scientific journal on biomarkers, exposure measurement, confounds, and the evidence connecting secondhand smoke to stroke.
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- Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Lung Cancer
- Characterizes the risk and provides a bibliography of the research literature that establishes the risk.
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- NERC Bibliography on Tobacco smoke and Cancer
- Over 700 references to the scientific literature. From the National Environmental Respiratory Center.