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Ad campaign developed by Iowa teens on secondhand smoke .
http://www.jeliowa.org

Think you know about secondhand smoke? A fun quiz.
http://www.aarc.org/patient_educ...tests/secondhand/smoke_form.html

Steps people can take to reduce their exposure to secondhand smoke.
http://www.imindifyousmoke.com/

Ontario Medical Association outlines the medical facts and their policy position based on those facts.
http://www.oma.org/phealth/2ndsmoke.htm

Listings of smokefree housing.
http://www.smokefreeworld.com/housing.shtml

Health conference presents short summaries of recent research and experience in secondhand smoke policy and programs.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3119.htm

The American Lung Association provides the history leading up to the fact that Oklahoma law prohibits smokefree public places.
http://www.oklung.org/advocacy/historyof2ndhandsmoke.htm

Report on the science, the industry's attack on the science, and the practical significance of secondhand smoke, from GASP of Colorado.
http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=40

NCTH publications on secondhand smoke; ETS in the workplace; advocacy tools for protecting yourself and others from secondhand smoke; science and health effects; case studies and new developments; best practices and lessons learned. resources for further research.
http://www.ncth.ca/ncth_new.nsf/...AD585256E160068A658?OpenDocument

Harvard School of Public Health research finds that smokefree policies reduce both secondhand smoke and tobacco addiction.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/press03222001.html

From the National Cancer Institute. Exposure measurement and prevalence, developmental toxicity (prenatal and postnatal), reproductive effects, respiratory health effects, carcinogenic effects, cardiovascular effects.
http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/10/

A fact sheet about protecting nonsmokers from secondhand smoke, produced by Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. All facts presented with citations to research literature.
http://www.no-smoke.org/htmlpage.php?id=17

On December 8, 1995, the U.S. Department of Labor ruled that a hospital nurse's cancer death was due to her on-the-job exposure to secondhand smoke.
http://www.ndsn.org/jan96/widower.html

Booklet created by the Onyx Group for the National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery; facts about secondhand smoke, community response.
http://www.naaapi.org/tobacco/breathe_free.asp

The immediate and long-term health effects of exposure to second-hand smoke; links to other sites for information on passive smoking, indoor air quality, and related health problems.
http://www.canadian-health-netwo...ceTemplate&c=CHNResource&lang=En