 |
|
|
Secondhand Smoke - A Little Is Dangerous
|
 |
 |
|
Category:
Specific Substances
-
Tobacco
Location: San Francisco, California - United States
|
|
Presents the medical and scientific evidence that a little secondhand smoke creates measurable health hazards.
It is sometimes argued that while long term exposure to secondhand smoke boosts the risk of cancer, short term exposure in a restaurant or a bar ...
|
|
|
|
EPA/ORD/NCEA - Passive Smoking - ETS
|
|
|
|
Category:
Specific Substances
-
Tobacco
Location: Washington, DC - United States
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
|
|
|
|
Category:
Specific Substances
-
Tobacco
Location: California - United States
|
|
The California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is developing a comprehensive health assessment on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The Final Draft for Scientific, Public, and SRP Review of Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco ...
|
|
|
|
Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking
|
|
|
|
Category:
Specific Substances
-
Tobacco
Location: - - United States
|
|
In 1992, the EPA completed its risk assessment on The Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders and concluded that the widespread exposure to ETS in the United States presents a serious and substantial public health ...
|
|
|
|
The Danger of Second Hand Smoke
|
|
|
|
Category:
Specific Substances
-
Tobacco
Location: - - United States
|
|
Secondhand smoke is a toxic by-product of smoking tobacco which affects anyone who is exposed to it. Otherwise known as environmental tobacco smoke(ETS), find out why it is harmful, who is most at risk from exposure, and what you can ...
|
|
|
|
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
|
|
|
|
Category:
Specific Substances
-
Tobacco
Location: Sacramento, California - United States
|
|
ARB is currently working on the second phase of the ETS TAC identification process outlined in Assembly Bill 1807. The ETS team is looking at how the public is exposed and what laws and controls are in place to reduce ...
|
|
|
|
British Medical Association on Secondhand Smoke
|
|
|
|
Category:
Specific Substances
-
Tobacco
Location: London - United States
|
|
The British Medical Association is the doctors’ professional organisation established to look after the professional and personal needs of our members. The BMA represents doctors in all branches of medicine all over the UK.
We are a voluntary association with ...
|
|
|
|
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
|
|
|
|
Category:
Specific Substances
-
Tobacco
Location: New York - United States
|
|
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to a group of disorders that damage the lungs and make breathing increasingly more difficult over time. The two most common forms of COPD are chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Both are chronic (long-term) illnesses ...
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
Protein test ups diabetes diagnoses in some races
Efforts to adopt a more accurate test for diagnosing diabetes may have hit a snag. Comparing the age-old oral glucose tolerance test to the newer hemoglobin A1c test confirms earlier evidence that race may influence test results, Danish researcher... |
|
Colonoscopy repeats greater with non-specialists
Older adults who have a colonoscopy performed by a family doctor, internist or general surgeon are somewhat more likely to need another one within a year compared with those who have the procedure done by a gastroenterologist, a new report finds. |
|
Biotech salmon safe for eating: FDA
A biotechnology company's genetically engineered salmon are as safe to eat as other Atlantic salmon, U.S. regulators said as they weighed approval of the first DNA-altered animal for Americans' dinner plates. |
|
|
 |
