Does passive smoking cause heart disease?

Passive smoking: secondhand smoke does cause respiratory disease.

PASSIVE SMOKING AND THE RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG MARRIED NON-SMOKING WOMEN

Several epidemiological studies have reported that passive smoking (PS) is a public health hazard and perhaps increases the risk of heart disease. This study evaluated the relationship between female coronary heart disease and PS among married women who described themselves as non-smokers in an area of south-east Iran. Using household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of PS, a hospi...

Passive smoking and heart disease.

Passive Smoking and Heart Disease

T he first disease linked definitively to active smoking was lung cancer. It is, therefore, not surprising that the first disease identified as caused by passive smoking was also lung cancer.1 Before the advent of mass-marketed cigarettes, lung cancer was a rare disease. Because smoking is the primary cause of lung cancer, identification of this link for both active2 and passive smoking3-was re...

Does periodontitis cause heart disease?

Several studies investigating the relation between infections — including dental infections — and various clinical manifestations of atherosclerotic vessel disease have been published during the last decade. The topic has proved difficult to study and this is especially true for dental infections, as they share several common etiologic factors with e.g. coronary heart disease (CHD). These inclu...