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By the time I'd arisen it was midday, so I headed back to the dining carriage for more passive smoking and lunch ... I may have been bombarded by passive smoking, but at least I'd improved my chances of surviving death in the event we hit an angry, rogue camel. (CNN -- International)
Call to end child passive smoking Feb 4, 2008
Passive smoking leads to 17,000 children under five being admitted to UK hospitals every year, a local charity has said. The Ulster Cancer Foundation has joined a global campaign to focus on the dangers to children when parents smoke. (BBC News)
Snorers Appear More Likely To Develop Chronic Bronchitis Jan 31, 2008
22, 2006) Over time, inhaling environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) -- a process often called "passive smoking" -- can cause otherwise healthy adults to develop chronic respiratory. (Dec. (Science Daily)
Salt added to chips may be putting your health at risk Jan 31, 2008
" Biker, Ayr 30/01/2008 13:20:58 I think the argument about salt is missing the point. Consider how greasy and stoggy chips are, then add a mountain of salt to disguise the flavour. Double whammy as far as I can see. First they poison you and then they try to hide the fact.Chip shop chips are very poor, but then again so are most take aways. Very good Alternative High Octane, I like the quote. Duncan in Edinburgh, 30/01/2008 13:30:06 #25 Lovely, thanks.Now, about you behaving like a child.... (Scotsman)
Marijuana Smokers Face Rapid Lung Destruction -- As Much As 20 Years Ahead Of Tobacco Smokers Jan 28, 2008
29, 2005) Children who are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (passive smoking) are at a higher risk of developing lung cancer as adults, says a paper in this week's BMJ. Those children exposed to. . (Science Daily)
Cigarettes Leave Deadly Path By Purging Protective Genes Jan 25, 2008
29, 2005) Children who are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (passive smoking) are at a higher risk of developing lung cancer as adults, says a paper in this week's BMJ. Those children exposed to. (May 9, 2000) Scientists have new data that toxic flavoring chemicals found in cigarettes are reaching smokers through cigarette smoke and may pose health hazards of their own. (Science Daily)
Pollution harms foetuses: study Jan 7, 2008
Nitrogen dioxide is usually produced by kerosene heaters, unvented gas stoves, heaters and passive smoking, while sulphur dioxide comes from diesel-powered vehicles and some industrial processes, such as fertiliser manufacturing, aluminium smelting and steel making. Particulate matter is found in car-exhaust fumes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Smokers at double risk of TB Jan 5, 2008
Though the evidence was more limited due to a substantially smaller number of studies, they also found evidence of an association between smoking, passive smoking and indoor air pollution and TB infection, disease and mortality. They advocate larger rigorously designed studies in the future to substantiate that association. (Hindustan Times)
Europeans chafe under New Year 'nanny state' laws Jan 3, 2008
"True, passive smoking is a public health concern. But is it not worse to start a car engine than to light up a cigarette?". As if in answer to the question, the German cities of Hanover and Cologne as well as Berlin banned the dirties cars and trucks from their centres, with another 20 due to follow suit this year. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Readers' Comments Brian delays wedding to Delta Jan 2, 2008
A marriage ce 00004000 rtificate isn't going to prevent Delta Goodrem being the victim of passive smoking - if that's what is concerning her father. Good ploy to get her name back in the media though. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
France consigns smoky cafes to history Dec 29, 2007
The Health Ministry says one in two regular smokers here dies of smoking-related illness, and about 5,000 non-smokers die each year of passive smoking. About a quarter of France's 60 million people are smokers. (USA Today -- News)
'Hike Prices To Beat Binge Drinking' Dec 21, 2007
The pair argue that the turning point in a similar debate about smoking was over the issue of harm from passive smoking, and yet the damage to third parties from exposure to alcohol misuse is far greater. "Drinking alcohol is a factor in more than half of violent crimes and a third of domestic violence," they claim. (Sky News)
Binge drink measures are 'failing' Dec 21, 2007
The pair argued that the turning point in a similar debate about smoking was over the issue of harm from passive smoking, and yet the damage to third parties from exposure to alcohol misuse is far greater, they said. "Drinking alcohol is a factor in more than half of violent crimes and a third of domestic violence. Between 780,000 and 1.3 million children are affected by their parents' use of alcohol - 30% to 60% of child protection cases and 23% of calls to the National Society for the... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Cannabis smoke 'has more toxins' Dec 20, 2007
They also looked at the sidestream smoke, given off from the burning tip of the product and responsible for 85% of the smoked inhaled through passive smoking. Concentrations. (BBC News -- Health)
Time to stop talking Dec 20, 2007
Why the teenaged girl on the mobile phone chose to share her torture on the 112 tram is beyond comprehension, but it occurred to me that her agonising monologue was the 21st-century equivalent of passive smoking. Except that opening a window doesn't help and the legislative tide favours the polluter. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Ghana Dec 19, 2007
Nonsmokers exposed to second hand smoke (a process called involuntary or passive smoking) absorb all the toxic chemicals just like smokers do. Tobacco smoke contains over 4000 harmful chemicals and over 60 of them are suspected to cause cancer. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
New Technique Reveals Insights Into Lung Disease Dec 18, 2007
For example, we have already observed the impact smoking and passive smoking on alveolar structure in an adult study which will now be extended to teenagers. We aim to establish a link between the health of the lungs during childhood and later degenerative lung disease (COPD) and then seek the specific factors genetic or environmental which lead to defective lung development. (Science Daily)
* [BOOK REVIEW] Cosmic conspiracy revealed: global warming is universal Dec 16, 2007
They also allege passive smoking is safe, speed cameras cost lives, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease was never a threat to health. Individuals who disagree are simply scaremongers. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Urban air pollution 'more dangerous than Chernobyl' Dec 14, 2007
Study rates risks of city life as greater than radiation Passive smoking worse than living in blast zone ... The health risks associated with air pollution and passive smoking appear more severe. (Yahoo News -- Pollution)
Yes, we can act against the corruption of children's lives Dec 10, 2007 The graveyard shift just got scarier! Dec 6, 2007 Unique MRI Technique Proves Passive Smoking Causes Lung Damage Dec 1, 2007 Radiation Exposure Of Pregnant Women More Than Doubles In Ten Years Nov 30, 2007 Smoking snapshots spark debate in India Nov 29, 2007 Cigarette Smoking Linked with Rectal Cancer Risk Nov 24, 2007 'Passive smoking dangers exaggerated' Nov 21, 2007 Expert: Smoking bans pay off Nov 21, 2007 Taken to heart Nov 15, 2007 Nicotine Byproduct Found in Babies of Smokers Nov 15, 2007 Smoking on the rise in India Nov 15, 2007 Air pollution is a challenge to development Nov 14, 2007 Eye Care: Test For Visual Acuity Could Aid Detection, Rehabilitation Of Macular Degeneration Oct 30, 2007 Cough, splutter: 200 for a licence to smoke Oct 27, 2007 Farmington Council bans smoking in restaurants Oct 24, 2007 Smokers 'waste 30 minutes a day' Oct 17, 2007 Teens Who Exercise Smoke Less, Wheeze Less Oct 13, 2007 Lawsuits are no substitute for the pioneering spirit Oct 3, 2007 World Heart Day Heart Beats of Caution for All Oct 2, 2007 Heart attack rates drop by fifth since smoke ban introduced Sep 12, 2007 Study: smoking ban reduces Scottish heart attacks Sep 11, 2007 Passive Smoking Could Cause 1.9 Million Excess Deaths From COPD In China Sep 3, 2007 Passive smoking increases sleep disturbance among pregnant women Sep 2, 2007 Passive smoking pets get cancer Sep 2, 2007 Secondhand smoke may kill 2 million in China Aug 31, 2007 Lung disease: passive smoking to kill millions in China Aug 31, 2007 Johnson is hardline rightwinger, report claims Aug 21, 2007 Hijackers surrender as passengers and crew escape Turkish plane Aug 20, 2007 US Government Not Promoting Healthy Living Says Cancer Panel Aug 20, 2007 Half 'are smoking less' since ban Aug 17, 2007 Ban school run 'to cut obesity Aug 15, 2007 Is smoking ban overdue? Aug 13, 2007 Correlates of exposure to secondhand smoke in an urban Mediterranean population Aug 6, 2007 State should brace for tobacco taxes Aug 1, 2007 Smokers told to quit at home Jul 30, 2007 Woolf still has its bite Jul 28, 2007 Govt to ban smoking in offices Jul 21, 2007 Radcliff ready to consider smoking ban Jul 18, 2007 Fresher airTwo weeks after the smoking ban - are pubs any cleaner? Jul 14, 2007 Prenatal Secondhand Smoke Tied to Mental Problems Jul 10, 2007 Stay away from second-hand smoke Jul 8, 2007 Early menopause, association with tobacco smoking, coffee consumption and other lifestyle factors: a cross-sectional study Jul 7, 2007 Next the anti-smoking Guardianistas will be coming for dogs and cats Jul 6, 2007 England Bans Smoking In Public Places Jul 2, 2007 Johnson hails 'popular' smoke ban Jul 2, 2007 England joins rest of UK in 'momentous' public-place smoking ban Jul 2, 2007 Ta-tar to pub & club smoking Jul 2, 2007 Smoking ban introduced in England Jul 2, 2007 Lives saved?Experts discuss the impact on health of the smoking ban Jul 1, 2007 Urban air pollution 'more dangerous than Chernobyl' Jul 1, 2007 Consigned to the ashtray of history Jul 1, 2007 Smoking ban: everything you need to know Jul 1, 2007 The way we smokeFrom first fag of the day to marital status - the UK's habit in stats Jun 30, 2007 Smoking Ban In Enclosed Public Places In England From July 1 Jun 30, 2007 Passive smoking:Out from the haze Jun 28, 2007 Give Up And Get On The Ladder! Jun 27, 2007 Cigarette butt litter Jun 26, 2007 Briefing: England prepares for the smoking ban Jun 24, 2007 Children Of Smokers Have More Than Five Times Higher Levels Of A Nicotine Toxin Jun 21, 2007 Smoking parents may have high-cotinine-level kids Jun 20, 2007 Smokers' Infants Have High Nicotine Levels Jun 20, 2007 New warning on risks of smoking near babies Jun 19, 2007 Test all wells for arsenic, says health expert Jun 13, 2007 Smokers 'waste 30 minutes a day' Jun 3, 2007 Pub smoke ban means violence in the home Jun 3, 2007
It might have been the scientific evidence of the effects of passive smoking on cancer growth; or the horrendous evidence brought into the public arena by women's groups; or wider understanding of the tiny genetic variations between human groups. But all this was then seized and sharpened into legislation by politicians. (Guardian Unlimited)
Good Diet and Gardening Linked To Lower Lung Cancer Risk Dec 9, 2007
29, 2005) Children who are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (passive smoking) are at a higher risk of developing lung cancer as adults, says a paper in this week's BMJ. Those children exposed to. (Oct. (Science Daily)
vikram says: If you work at a nightclub, passive smoking is inevitable. Thats the scariest way of becoming a cancer victim. (Mid-Day Mumbai)
Researchers have discovered for the first time that passive smoking or second-hand smoking causes structural damage to the lungs. The discovery was made using a novel MRI technique by researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville and The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania under the leadership of Dr. Chengbo Wang. (MedIndia)
4, 2007) Pregnant women exposed to passive smoking are more likely to have sleep disturbances such as subjective insufficient sleep, difficulty in initiating sleep, short sleep duration, and snoring loudly or. (Dec. (Science Daily)
A government order earlier this year said photographs of patients with oral cancer, and of babies - with breathing tubes due to passive smoking damage - should be prominently shown on cigarette packs by the first week of December. The government is under pressure from the tobacco lobby, however. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
A similar analysis did not associate passive smoking with an increased risk for colorectal cancer, the investigators note. As mentioned, these findings provide another reason to encourage smoking prevention and cessation programs, the investigators conclude. (MEDLINEplus)
Dangers of passive smoking exaggerated: Study- ET Cetera-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times ... Dangers of passive smoking exaggerated: Study21 Nov, 2007, 1035 hrs IST, PTI ... NEW DELHI: For long the perils associated with passive smoking have been cited as reasons to seek a complete ban on smoking in public places, but if a new study is to be believed the dangers of second hand smoke have been exaggerated. (India Times)
"What people don't understand is that if you look at active smoking as well as passive smoking in population studies, you can see that exposure to smoke, active or passive, is perfectly capable of killing you now."For his next project, Seo plans to study the impact of making all the IU campuses smoke-free, a policy that goes into effect next year. Seo will compare smoking cessation rates over the next six months at IU and Purdue University, which will continue to allow students to smoke on... (Indianapolis Star)
The most arresting finding was that heart attacks among non-smokers had apparently fallen even faster than smokers, suggesting that passive smoking was often to blame. Then a week ago, with rather less fanfare, routine statistics on hospital activity were published by the official source for health data in Scotland, as they are every year, this time including the time since the ban. (BBC News -- UK)
Passive smoking exposes babies to cotinine at an early stage of life when they may not be fully equipped to excrete the toxic chemical. Wailoo and colleagues measured the amount of cotinine in the urine of 71 infants with smoking parents and 33 infants with non-smoking parents when the infants were just 10 to 12 weeks old. (MEDLINEplus)
Kisku said that sometimes even non-smokers would suffer from the COPD due to passive smoking. Constant exposure to fumes from cooking stoves and polluted air could also lead to the disease. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
She observed that effects of smoking including passive smoking lead to head to toe infections such as tooth decay, heart disease, stomach ulcers, hair loss, deformed sperms and cancers of the lungs, nose, tongue, breast uterus and added those according WHO those smoke in the teens are likely to die 20 to 25 years earlier than those who do not. A GHS and Environmental Protection Agency study of Respiratory Diseases and monitoring level of pollutants in 2005-2006 indicated that Common colds were... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
3, 2006) Passive smoking almost doubles the risk of the progressively degenerative eye disease, age related macular degeneration, shows research in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. The macula lies at. (Science Daily)
--- With the smoking ban, there is a point: the risk of passive smoking ... Non-smokers have always had that choice in respects to passive smoking. (Guardian Unlimited)
Why I signed the petition wrote on Oct 23, 2007 10:42 PM:" To answer a few of the postings..."The Concerned American" EPA report, Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders; EPA/600/6-90/006 F, answers your call for medical proof. For "Smoking vs. Obesity", when I stand next to a person that is overweight, I don't feel myself getting fatter.Next to a smoker, however,I am breathing in second hand smoke.Thirdly to the "Freedom Infringement" folks, what do you... (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
"Cigarette breaks are a positive thing for non-smokers as they minimise the impact of passive smoking in their working environment.". "But if smokers are seen to be taking advantage of the breaks they are allowed, they will become deeply unpopular.". (Yahoo News -- Smoking)
"Our study's methodology did not allow us to determine whether a teenager was a non-smoker because he liked sport or whether he was inactive because he smoked or was subjected to passive smoking," Vogelberg explained. Future studies, the researchers conclude, will need to separate the independent effects of exercise and smoking on asthma risk. (MEDLINEplus)
Third, women are so ceaselessly bombarded by the myriad ways in which they have failed their unborn babies - with poor diets, stress levels, moderate drinking, insufficient vitamin intake, passive smoking, active smoking, excessive intake of Rennies (seriously) - that we have lost our pioneering spirit and impetus to act collectively. In the absence of a ready solution to the nature of politics, and with a grudging respect for the feel-goodery because every now and then it's true, we should be... (Guardian Unlimited)
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 Search. World Heart Day Heart Beats of Caution for All. (Daijiworld.com)
Experts said a drop in exposure to passive smoking meant many people were no longer inhaling dangerous chemicals which were causing heart attacks, which was the probable explanation for the large fall. Smoking causes a fatty build-up in the arteries known as atherosclerosis, which can cause clots to form, leading to heart attacks. (Scotsman)
Smoking ban brings big cut in heart attacks in Scotland, study finds. Non-smokers benefit most with 20% fall in first year Children and bar staff's exposure also reduced. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
ScienceDaily: Passive Smoking Could Cause 1 ... Passive Smoking Could Cause 1 ... Exposure to passive smoking is linked to increased prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (Science Daily)
Pregnant women exposed to passive smoking are more likely to have sleep disturbances such as subjective insufficient sleep, difficulty in initiating sleep, short sleep duration, and snoring loudly or breathing uncomfortably, according to a study published in the September 1 issue of the journal SLEEP. ... With this in mind, it is important to study the issue of passive smoking among Japanese women and their health, added Dr. Ohida ... The relationship between passive smoking exposure and some... (EurekAlert!)
In pets, passive smoking can cause oral cancer and lymphoma in cats, lung and nasal cancer in dogs as well as lung cancer in birds, said veterinarian Carolynn MacAllister of the Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service ... Malignant lymphoma is another type of cancer that cats can get from passive smoking. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
More than half of never smokers reported exposure to passive smoking in their workplace and at home, with 28 percent reporting high levels of total adult exposure, Adab and Cheng wrote in their report, published in the Lancet medical journal ... If our risk estimates are correct, and assuming that current mortality and passive smoking exposure patterns continue, of the 240 million people aged over 50 years alive today in China, high exposure to passive smoking would result in about 1 ...... (MSNBC -- Health)
9 million excess deaths," the researchers conclude grimly. "In China, we are looking at something like 100,000 people dying a year from passive smoking, and about 45 percent of that will be from chronic lung disease," Cheung told AFP in an interview. "The rest are from coronary heart disease and lung cancer. " The study, the largest of its kind ever undertaken in China, examined 15,379 non-smokers -- almost 90 percent of them women -- in the southern city of Guangzhou. Citing a recent study by... (Channel News Asia)
The report also includes Mr Johnson's views on Iraq (wide-eyed admiration for American troops, admittedly dating from 2004), George Bush, whom he supported in 2000 and 2004, climate change ("When Bush says no [to Kyoto], he is doing what is right not just for America but for the world"), the minimum wage (which "[puts] up your costs and greatly [reduces] your ability to reinvest"), and the smoking ban ("It is extremely difficult, statistically, to contract a cancer from passive smoking"), as... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Please note: Your browser has been unable to load the stylesheet that accompanies this page. The page is still readable. (Scotland on Sunday)
Two thirds of cancer deaths and thosands of new cases could be avoided by changing the lifestyle of Americans: tobacco use and passive smoking account for nearly one third, and unhealthy diets account for another third of all cancer deaths in America today says the PCP.. The President's Cancer Panel (PCP) has three members: Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor and campaigner and cycling champion, Dr Margaret L. Kripke, chief academic officer at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and Dr... (Medical News Today)
The government hopes the ban, which began in England on 1st July, will help smokers to quit as well as protect people from the dangers of passive smoking and discourage children from taking up the habit. A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "We estimate that a complete smoking ban might reduce smoking rates by 1.7%; taking smoking from 24% now, down to 22%. "This will mean around 600,000 fewer smokers in the long term. (BBC News)
Ban school run 'to cut obesity' - News - Manchester Evening News. ONE of the mainstays of the summer festival calendar, Creamfields returns on August 25 and we have a pair of tickets to give away to catch all of the action. (Manchester Evening News)
While it is senseless to question the consensus that secondhand smoking kills, it will be an arduous battle to protect non-smokers from being harmed by passive smoking. This is not only because China accounts for one-third of the world's total smokers, with 350 million, but because most smokers stubbornly insist they have the right and freedom to smoke wherever they want. (Xinhuanet, China)
9% reported passive smoking at home, 55. 1% during leisure time, and 34. (BioMed Central)
While marketing restrictions and public and passive smoking (restrictions) do depress volume, it is our experience that taxation depresses it much more severely. If the higher tax is in fact coming, North Carolina better start bracing itself. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Activists are urging smokers not to light up at home, to reduce the danger posed by passive smoking to their children. There are thought to be at least 43 million children in Indonesia exposed to secondhand smoke at home, giving them a higher risk of lung cancer and other tobacco-related diseases, according to activists. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia)
"We don't expose the audience to passive smoking.". Company policy, apparently. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Passive smoking is dangerous, why should a non-smoker bear the brunt. the minister asked, elaborating on his new idea which will come into effect by the end of this year. (Indian Express)
Virgil Kleinhelter wrote on Jul 14, 2007 4:44 PM:" The research I have been doing since 1998 has shown me the real truth of the myth being spread about Second Hand Smoke worldwide by the Pharmaceuticals. They do this to boost their profits into the Billions through the sale of pills and patches. I found the largest studies ever done. These studies were completed by the American Cancer society, the World Health Organization, the National Oakridge Labs, one simply called The Enormous German Study... (Elizabethtown News Enterprise, KY)
"You know passive smoking is bad for you," said Ross, "but you tend to block it out of your mind when you work in a pub. You try to forget.". "I'd love to know exactly what we've been exposed to," Karen added, smiling nervously. (BBC News -- UK)
While such problems are known to be more common among children whose mothers smoked while pregnant, this study is the first to find that passive smoking poses a risk as well, Drs. Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp and Theodore P. Beauchaine of the University of Washington in Seattle note in the journal Child Psychiatry and Human Development. (MEDLINEplus)
People are exposed to more carcinogens through passive smoking because the smoke is not filtered at the tip of the cigarette ... The effects of passive smoking are worse in confined places like the workplace, restaurants or pubs ... How relevant an American study is for India, where awareness about passive smoking is still low. (CNN-IBN)
The objective was primarily to investigate the association between early menopause and current, past active and passive smoking ... Early menopause was not significantly associated with passive smoking, or alcohol or coffee consumption. (BioMed Central)
The ban-lobby figures for "deaths from passive smoking" are unconvincing, reminding me of equal and opposite figures from the American tobacco lobby in the old days. Most of the air we breathe at work and play is polluted. (Guardian Unlimited)
"The effects of passive smoking on humans are well documented, but pets are also affected by breathing in second hand cigarette smoke," said PDSA senior veterinary surgeon Elaine Pendlebury. MMVII The Associated Press. (CBS News)
Trade union leaders have applauded the curbs on smoking in England as a step forward for workplace safety - describing passive smoking as the "third biggest cause of deaths at work". But smokers' rights group, Forest, attacked the ban saying that it is "out of all proportion to the risk from second-hand smoke". (BBC News)
" Related topic http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=663 This article: http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1028392007 Last updated: 01-Jul-07 00:15 BST Comments Suck-McCrunchie, Doomster Hill / 1:40am 2 Jul 2007 I think the smoking ban in England is a bad thing. At least while drawing on tobacco fumes they could not go on incessantly about 1966. Nigel L, Cornwall / 2:11am 2 Jul 2007 I think its the best move in a very long time. I work in Scotland and the pubs there are now a much nicer place... (Scotsman)
Passive smoking is the third biggest cause of deaths at work, after asbestos and road accidents. Non-smoking actor Eddie Connor, 33, from Finsbury Park, North London, was also delighted. (The Sun)
The World Health Organisation classes passive smoking as a carcinogen. All tobacco products - cigarettes, pipes and shisha waterpipes - and also certain products without tobacco - eucalyptus and menthol cigarettes - are now banned in public places, including station platforms, pubs and restaurants. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
"The foremost authority in this area - Sir Richard Peto, professor of medical statistics at Oxford - told the Committee that the risks from passive smoking are small and difficult to measure. "Given the miniscule level of risk, the blanket ban on smoking in public places is a case of using the proverbial sledgehammer to obliterate, rather than crack, a rather small and insignificant nut ... "As the risks from passive smoking are tiny, the direct impact on public health is likely to be so small... (BBC News -- Health)
Study rates risks of city life as greater than radiation Passive smoking worse than living in blast zone ... The health risks associated with air pollution and passive smoking appear more severe. (Yahoo News -- Pollution)
My case is and always has been that there is no evidence for the dangers of passive smoking. None. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Around 50,000 Spaniards a year die as a result of the habit; 1,500 non-smokers are also thought to die each year because of passive smoking ... The restriction of smoking in public places has led to an 8 per cent drop in overall tobacco consumption, from 32 kilograms of cigarettes to 28 million kg. According to officials in one region, Piedmont, hospital admissions for heart attacks in people under 60 have fallen by 11 per cent since the ban, a fall attributed by Turin University researchers to... (Times Online)
Supporters of a ban argue that it will protect many non-smokers from the effects of passive smoking. But it has also been suggested that many children will be more likely to be exposed to smoke, as their parents will light up at home instead. (BBC News -- UK)
This new law is aimed at protecting the health of the non-smoker, who allegedly risks his/her health by breathing secondhand smoke (passive smoking). Some government ministers have said they hope this new legislation will encourage many smokers to quit. (Medical News Today)
com - Passive smokingOut from the haze - Smoking was banned in Californian bars a decade ago, and this week England follows suit ... Passive smoking: Out from the haze ... In his view, passive smoking has been the Achilles' heel of tobacco companies, taking the focus off the rights of smokers and placing it on the health of non-smokers. (Nature News Service)
I suspect most non-smokers are rejoicing -- not only is the stench of second hand smoke unpleasant, passive smoking has been linked to lung cancer, heart disease and even sudden infant death syndrome (commonly known as cot death). However, many smokers have deemed the ruling draconian and are outraged at their lack of right to choose. (Sky News)
Secondly, how long have we had to put up with passive smoking ... Passive smoking is no minor issue, whether it is in a restaurant, bus shelter or in the park ... Smoking is so demonised that everyone wants to believe we are deliberately littering everywhere, in addition to passive smoking nonsense. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
The growing concerns over the health risks of passive smoking, which accounts for more than 12,000 deaths in the UK each year, are behind the ban on smoking in public places, which comes into effect from 6am next Sunday. Next week it will be illegal to smoke in almost all enclosed public spaces across England - including workplaces such as pubs, cinemas, offices, factories and public transport. (Independent)
Higher cotinine levels in colder times of year may be a reflection of the other key factors which influence exposure to passive smoking, such as poorer ventilation or a greater tendency for parents to smoke indoors in winter ... But they acknowledge that there are practical difficulties in preventing smoking in private homes because it relies on parents or carers being educated about the harmful effects of passive smoking on their children and then acting on that knowledge. (Science Daily)
"Babies affected by smoke tend to come from poorer homes, which may have smaller rooms and inadequate heating. Higher cotinine levels in colder times of year may be a reflection of the other key factors which influence exposure to passive smoking, such as poorer ventilation or a greater tendency for parents to smoke indoors in winter," the study wrote. "This is the first time we've got direct information on the effect of smoking in homes on babies," Mike Wailoo, M.D., FRCP, a senior lecturer in... (Xinhua)
"Higher cotinine levels in colder times of year may be a reflection of the other key factors which influence exposure to passive smoking, such as poorer ventilation or a greater tendency for parents to smoke indoors in winter.". The researchers also noted that sleeping with a parent is a known risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). (Health-Finder)
"Higher cotinine levels in colder times of year may be a reflection of the other key factors which influence exposure to passive smoking, such as poorer ventilation or a greater tendency for parents to smoke indoors in winter." ... Heavy smokers (who consume more than 20 a day) are less likely to think passive smoking increases a child's risk of cot death or developing asthma than are ex-smokers or non-smokers, according to a Department of Health survey in 2005. (Guardian Unlimited)
Drinking water poisoned with arsenic may be causing cancer on the same scale as passive smoking, affecting millions of people worldwide, a public health specialist has warned ... "At lower levels of 50 micrograms per litre, the risk may be on a par with that from passive smoking, which accounts for one in 100 cancers. But we haven't proved that and we may not be able to because it is hard to find people who have only ever drunk water with a 50 microgram level of arsenic for 30 to 40 years". (Independent)
"Cigarette breaks are a positive thing for non-smokers as they minimise the impact of passive smoking in their working environment.". "But if smokers are seen to be taking advantage of the breaks they are allowed, they will become deeply unpopular.". (Yahoo News -- Smoking)
"The enacting of this legislation is to protect patrons and workers from the well-known harmful effects of passive smoking," she said. "The department is unaware of evidence that the introduction of smoking bans has any impact on domestic violence rates.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
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