Where There's No Smoke: Popular Smoke-Free Laws Curbing Active, Passive Smoking

Where there's no smoke: popular smoke-free laws curbing active, passive smoking.

Of all of the efforts to control smoking in the United States that were launched after the release of the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking 40 years ago, many experts agree that the grassroots movement to limit the public's exposure to secondhand smoke has been the most successful. That initiative is celebrating its own 30th anniversary this year with a string of very recent successes that hi...

The New Danger of Thirdhand Smoke: Why Passive Smoking Does Not Stop at Secondhand Smoke

Passive smoking exposure is a topic of great concern for public health because of its well-known adverse effects on human health (International Agency for Research on Cancer 2004). Two news articles on this topic were published in the February 2011 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives (Burton 2011; Lubick 2011). Lubick (2011) discussed the global health burden of secondhand smoke, and Bur...

Where there's smoke...

Passive smoking: secondhand smoke does cause respiratory disease.

Where there's smoke.

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