Passive Smoking

A review of the evidence on the health effects of passive smoking showed that passive smoking causes lower respiratory illness in children and lung cancer in adults and contributes to the symptoms of asthma in children. The review also estimated that the risk of heart attack or death from coronary heart disease was 24% higher in non-smokers living with a smoker [Source: The health effects of passive smoking: a scientific information paper. Canberra: National Health and Medical Research Council; 1997].

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Reviewed February 2010

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Title:   Passive smoking
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Passive smoking means breathing in other people's tobacco smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes and other sources. Secondhand smoke is a danger to everyone but children, pregnant women and the partners of smokers are most vulnerable. Passive smoking increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or cot death), middle ear disease, asthma, respiratory illnesses, lung cancer and coronary heart disease.
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Asthma and smoking
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Smokers with asthma have worse asthma control, more airway damage and faster loss of lung function. Secondhand smoke, or passive smoking, is a trigger for people with asthma, so people with asthma need to avoid smoky places whenever possible.
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Asthma and passive smoking - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Fast facts on the costs and effects of passive smoking.
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Passive smoking
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Whenever people smoke, all the others around them are smoking too because they breathe in the same harmful substances as the person who is smoking. it is known as passive smoking.
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Passive smoking
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Whenever people smoke, all the others around them are smoking too because they breathe in the same harmful substances as the person who is smoking. Passive smoking
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Passive smoking (living with a smoker)
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   What is passive smoking? If someone is smoking, then the smoke they blow out into the air can be breathed in by anyone who is near to them.
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Passive smoking
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Whenever people smoke, all the others around them are smoking too because they breathe in the same harmful substances as the person who is smoking. Passive smoking.
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Smoking with kids in the car is now illegal
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   From 1 July 2009, smoking in a car with a child under the age of 16 is against the law.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Environmental tobacco smoke
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The page contains information on passive smoking
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Tobacco
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The National Tobacco Strategy aims to improve the health of all Australians by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco in all its forms.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Family and carer smoking control programmes for reducing children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Currently the evidence does not determine which interventions are most effective for decreasing parental smoking and preventing exposure to tobacco smoke in childhood. Children exposed to cigarette smoke are at greater risk of lung problems, infections ...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Smoke-free kids
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   This topic is aimed at providing parents, grandparents and care-givers of children and young people with information about the impact of smoking, and passive smoking, on health.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Asthma children and smoking
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Parents who smoke put their children at greater risk of developing asthma. Smoking in pregnancy, including passive smoking, increases the risk of asthma. If a child already has the condition, cigarette smoke will provoke more frequent and more severe asthma attacks.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   National Tobacco Strategy 2004-2009: Implementation - Commonwealth
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Commonwealth component of National Tobacco Strategy 2004-2009 implementation progress report.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   National Tobacco Strategy
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The National Tobacco Strategy 2004-2009 is a policy framework for the Australian Government and State and Territory Governments to work together and in collaboration with non-government agencies to improve health and to reduce the social costs caused by tobacco.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Asthma and smoking - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Smoking and asthma do not combine well. Tobacco smoke has several adverse effects on the airways of both smokers and those who are exposed to environmental tobacco.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Protecting children from tobacco: a NSW Government discussion paper on the next steps to reduce tobacco-related harm, 2008
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   The NSW Government is looking at the next steps to reduce harm caused to the community from tobacco smoking. The Government is particularly interested in new ideas to prevent the next generation of young people from taking up smoking.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Health Effects of Smoking
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information on the health effects of smoking.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Health risks of passive smoking
Publisher:   The Cancer Council Australia
Description:   The Cancer Council Australia's position statement on passive smoking
Date:   Sep 2006
Title:   Interventions for preventing tobacco smoking in public places
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Different methods are used to try and stop people smoking in public places such as hospitals and workplaces. The review looked at trials of different strategies, and found that simply putting up signs of a 'no smoking' policy does not seem to help preve...
Date:   Mar 2006
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