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Dr. Munzer is past president of the American Lung Association. This is a statement he gave to Congress on the health effects of secondhand smoke.
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Nasal cancer is a common form of cancer in dogs. John Reif, a veterinarian at Colorado State University, demonstrated an association between ETS and canine nasal cancer.
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Factsheet; all sources cited. "Environmental Tobacco Smoke [ETS], or secondhand smoke, is the third leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the U.S.; the first is active smoking." Summary of how the tobacco industry denies the facts about secondhand smoke with initimidation and disinformation campaigns.
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Effects of secondhand smoke on children and adults: asthma attacks, lower respiratory tract infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia; buildup of fluid in the middle ear; upper respiratory tract irritation; lung cancer.
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National Environmental Respiratory Center has reports on effects of secondhand smoke on: allergies, asthma, emphysema, lung and heart function, and more. Many can be ordered from the website. Others are citations to the literature.
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Secondhand smoke increases the occurrence of dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain) in nonsmoking women; moreover, the more secondhand smoke a woman is exposed to daily, the higher her risk for dysmenorrhea.
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May 1998 literature review, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, evaluated more than 100 major studies on the health effects of passive smoking. 63% found harm, ranging from respiratory problems to cancer. Of the studiess that were inconclusive or found no health effects, three quarters were written by scientists affiliated with the tobacco industry.
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