Surf these sites: Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- Cancer Facts from the National Cancer Institute. Summary and bibliography on effects of secondhand smoke. Additional publications you can send for. Health Explorer - Women''s Health - Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer -- Short item summarizing JAMA study: nonsmoking women married to smokers were 30% more likely to develop lung cancer. Involuntary smoking causes breast cancer -- Summary of Swiss study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology that studied 1300 women. Lung Cancer: Risk from Second-hand Smoke -- Medical research. The investigators analyzed data from 653 women with histologically confirmed lung cancer and 1253 randomly selected female controls. They found that passive smoking significantly increased the risk of lung cancer (pulmonary adenocarcinoma of the lung as well as cancers of other histopathologic cell types). Meds.com: Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- Focus is on lung cancer caused by secondhand smoke. Mistaken Ruling, unmistakable facts -- "How Judge Osteen got it wrong" and why his ruling may not matter in any case. NERC Bibliography on tobacco smoke and Cancer -- Over 700 references to the scientific literature. From the National Environmental Respiratory Center. New Scientist editorial -- "A lot has happened since the EPA study was carried out in 1993. More research has shown links between passive smoking and lung cancer. We have also come to know a lot about the industry''s cynical attempts to obscure those links." OncoLink: Environmental Tobacco Smoke Linked to Lung Cancer and Other Health Effects -- Updated January 2000 to include latest research. OncoLink: NCI Fact Sheet on Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- ETS causes lung cancer. It also causes hundreds of thousands of respiratory infections in children every year. It probably causes SIDS. Passive smoking tied to breast cancer risk -- Secondhand smoke causes cell changes that lead to breast cancer, report US researchers. The risk of these cell changes is highest in those exposed to passive smoking during childhood, before breast tissue matures, according to the study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Secondhand smoke causes cancer in dogs -- If you smoke, and you live with kids, pets, or other people, please take it outside. They''ll thank you. WHO: Passive Smoking Causes Lung Cancer -- The World Health Organization (WHO) sets the record straight: secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in non-smokers.
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