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1. Exposure to secondhand smoke outside of a bar and a restaurant and tobacco exposure biomarkers in nonsmokers

Author

Helen, Gideon, Bernert, J. Thomas, Hall, Daniel B., Sosnoff, Connie S., Xia, Yang, Balmes, John R., Vena, John E., Wang, Jia-Sheng, and Holland, Nina T. and Naeher, Luke P.

Subjects
Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Tobacco products -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Restaurants -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Bars, saloons, etc. -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Environmental issues, Health
Abstract

BACKGROUND: With an increase in indoor smoking bans, many smokers smoke outside establishments and near their entrances, which has become a public health concern. OBJECTIVES: We characterized the exposure of [...]

Published
2012

2. Adverse health effects of prenatal and postnatal tobacco smoke exposure on children

Author

Hofhuis, W., de Jongste, J.C., and Merkus, P.J.F.M.

Subjects
Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Children -- Health aspects, Smoking in pregnancy -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Family and marriage, Health, Health aspects, Environmental aspects
Abstract

Arch Dis Child 2003;88:1086-1090 Parents who choose to smoke are possibly not aware of, or deny, the negative effects of passive smoking on their offspring. This review summarises a wide [...]

Published
2003

3. The smoking gun

Author

Horrigan, Alice

Subjects
Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Smoking -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Environmental issues, Health aspects, Environmental aspects
Abstract

Despite the cigarette dangling from her fingers as she took a smoking break outside a Norwalk, Connecticut clothing shop, Cindy Habighorst is no campaigner for smoker's rights. 'It's a sticky [...]

Published
1994

4. Reduction of environmental tobacco smoke exposure among asthmatic children: a controlled trial

Author

Hovell, Melbourne F., Meltzer, Susan B., Zakarian, Joy M., Wahlgren, Dennis R., Emerson, Jennifer A., Hofstetter, C. Richard, Leaderer, Brian P., Meltzer, Eli O., Zieger, Robert S., O'Connor, Richard D., Mulvihill, Mary M., and Atkins, Catherine J.

Subjects
Asthma in children -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Health, Environmental aspects, Health aspects
Abstract

Study objective: This randomized clinical trial tested a behavioral medicine program designed to reduce asthmatic children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the home. Design: Families were randomly assigned [...]

Published
1994

5. Your environment and your health

Author

Scott, Geoff

Subjects
Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Lead poisoning -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Electromagnetic fields -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Indoor air quality -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Noise pollution -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Health
Abstract

Think of the environment and environmental risks and most people think about factories belching smoke . . . or of oil spills . . . or of pesticides sprayed on [...]

Published
1992

6. Parents should remove risk factors to reduce asthma in children

Author

Spurgeon, David

Subjects
Asthma in children -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Pets -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Health, Environmental aspects, Health aspects
Abstract

More than half a million American children aged under 6 years with asthma would not have the disease if risk factors such as tobacco smoke and pets were removed from [...]

Published
2001

7. Smoking by parents of asthmatic children

Author

Kemm, John, Irvine, Linda, Crombie, Iain K., Clark, Roland A., and Slane, Peter W.

Subjects
Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Asthma in children -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Smokers -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Parents -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Health, Health aspects, Environmental aspects
Abstract

Sensitive counselling may still be worth while EDITOR--Reducing exposure of asthmatic children to parental smoking is important, but without more information the paper by Irvine et al provides no foundation [...]

Published
1999

8. Advising parents of asthmatic children on passive smoking: randomised controlled trial

Author

Irvine, Linda, Crombie, Iain K., Clark, Roland A., Slane, Peter W., Feyerabend, Colin, Goodman, Kirsty E., and Cater, John I.

Subjects
Asthma in children -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Health, Health aspects, Environmental aspects
Abstract

Abstract Objective To investigate whether parents of asthmatic children would stop smoking or alter their smoking habits to protect their children from environmental tobacco smoke. Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting [...]

Published
1999

9. Tobacco smoke, take three

Subjects
Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Nicotine -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

The dangers of second-hand cigarette smoke are well known, but nicotine can linger on indoor surfaces and generate 'third-hand' smoke, either through its re-emission into the air or by direct [...]

Published
2011

10. Prenatal secondhand smoke harder on poor children

Subjects
Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Poor children -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Pregnant women -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Health, Health aspects, Environmental aspects
Abstract

The effects of prenatal exposure to secondhand smoke on mental development are exacerbated in children who experience socioeconomic hardships during the first two years of life, according to a March [...]

Published
2004

11. Second-hand smoke increases children's risk of allergies

Author

De la Hey, Mark

Subjects
Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Allergy in children -- Risk factors -- Research, Immunoglobulin E -- Reports, Health, Psychology and mental health, Research, Risk factors, Reports, Health aspects, Environmental aspects
Abstract

Exposure to tobacco smoke in early infancy may increase a child's risk of developing allergies, according to a study from the Karolinska institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Researchers surveyed 4,089 families [...]

Published
2008

12. Cigarette smoke--that's what girls are made of. (Research Update)

Author

de la Hey, Mark

Subjects
Passive smoking -- Health aspects -- Environmental aspects, Sex determination, Genetic -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects, Health, Psychology and mental health, Health aspects, Environmental aspects
Abstract

Parents who smoke around the time of a child's conception may increase the likelihood that the child will be a girl. Researchers at the Fukuda Ladies Clinic in Hyogo, Japan, [...]

Published
2002

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