Article: Surgeon General Carmona Leaves Legacy of Fighting Tobacco Use, Secondhand Smoke, Says Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Article: State-specific prevalence of current cigarette smoking among ...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  December 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... smoking, is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, but the health consequences extend beyond smokers to nonsmokers involuntarily exposed to environmental tobacco smoke or secondhand smoke (SHS) (1). Each year, an estimated 3,000 lung cancer ...

Article: Disparities in secondhand smoke ...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  July 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ...No level of exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is safe (1). Breathing SHS can cause heart disease ... and exacerbation of asthma in children (1-3). In the United States, exposure to SHS declined approximately 70% from the late ...

Article: Disparities in Secondhand Smoke Exposure - ...
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  July 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ...No level of exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is safe (1). Breathing SHS can cause heart disease ... and exacerbation of asthma in children (1-3). In the United States, exposure to SHS declined approximately 70% from the late ...

Article: State-specific prevalence of current cigarette smoking among ...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  October 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... children and adults who do not smoke but are exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) (1). To assess the state-specific prevalence of current smoking among adults in the United States and the proportions of adults who report having smoke ...

Article: NEW REPORT SUPPORTS LINK BETWEEN SECONDHAND SMOKE, ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 21, 2009 ;     690 words ... ... each year in the United States. "We have known ... that breathing secondhand smoke also increases ... realize the effect secondhand smoke has on their health ... regularly exposed to secondhand smoke in the United States. The state health ...

Article: OPEN COLUMN Baseless stats don't prove secondhand ...
Columbia Daily Tribune;  June 27, 2006 ;     461 words ... ... reality is the myth of secondhand smoke, ballyhooed by uninformed ... 000 people dying from secondhand smoke each year in the United States. There was no documentation ... 200 Missourians die of secondhand smoke every year. No proof ...

Article: Health Coalition Calls on New York State Senate to Act on ...
PR Newswire;  June 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... people from dangerous secondhand smoke. The ad campaign asks ... on to explain that "Secondhand smoke is just that. A killer ... protect New Yorkers. Secondhand smoke kills 63,000 people in the United States every year by causing ...