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Fact Sheet on Secondhand Smoke

James L. Repace, MSc., Physicist Repace Associates, Inc., Secondhand Smoke Consultants Bowie, Maryland 20720, U.S.A. Ichiro Kawachi, PhD, Associate Professor Department of Health and Social Behavior Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Stanton Glantz, PhD., Professor Department of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California, U.S.A. This Fact Sheet was compiled by the authors in response to a request by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland, and presented at the 2nd European Conference on Tobacco or Health and the 1st Iberoamerican Conference on Tobacco or Health Canary Islands, Spain, 23-27 February 1999.

Abstract

Breathing secondhand-smoke causes morbidity and mortality from cancer, heart disease, and respiratory disease, as well as acute sensory irritation. It causes the premature death of hundreds of thousands of nonsmokers worldwide. Smoke-free buildings are the only remedy. Secondhand smoke cannot be controlled by ventilation, air cleaning, or spatial separation of smokers from nonsmokers.

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