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Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Related Mortality

Category: Specific Substances - Tobacco
Location: - - United States

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)


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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 ...

 
Environmental TobaccoSmoke and Related Issues

Category: Specific Substances - Tobacco
Location: New South Wales - Australia

Collection of documents from Australia and elsewhere covers health effects of secondhand smoke, indoor air quality, tobacco related exposures for carcinogens.

 
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 ...

 
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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...

U.S. medical programs missing millions of kids: report
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UK booze consumption in biggest fall for 60 years
Notorious abroad for their binge-drinking, Britons bucked the trend last year with alcohol consumption in the country showing its biggest fall since 1948, the industry said Friday.

Abbott abandons plans to sell vaccines business
Drug and medical device firm Abbott Laboratories said Friday it has abandoned plans to sell its vaccines unit, less than three months after exploring sales talks with rival companies.

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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.

Early day care may promote eczema development
Kids who spend their earliest years in day care may be at higher risk of eczema than kids cared for at home, according to a new study from Germany.

Timer may help kids' bladder control problems
Wearing a programmable wristwatch could help children manage their daytime bladder control problems, a new study suggests.

Antidepressant patch doesn't help smokers quit
An antidepressant drug delivered through a patch on the skin is no better than placebo for helping smokers kick the habit, new research shows.

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