ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE:Health Effects and Policies to Reduce Exposure

Recommendations regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable premature death in the United States,1–3 and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a preventable cause of significant morbidity and mortality.4–6 Preventing tobacco use in children and adolescents, reducing tobacco use in adults, and reducing nonsmokers’ exposure to ETS are essential public health objectives for communities. This...

Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

This report presents the results of systematic reviews of effectiveness, applicability, other effects, economic evaluations, and barriers to use of selected population-based interventions intended to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. The related systematic reviews are linked by a common conceptual approach. These reviews form the basis of recommendations by the Tas...

Tobacco control in NSW: evidence supporting improved strategies to reduce exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a mixture of sidestream smoke (emitted to the atmosphere from the tip of a burning cigarette) and mainstream smoke (inhaled and exhaled by a smoker). ETS contains at least 50 chemicals recognised to be carcinogenic, as well as thousands of other chemicals including many known to be developmental, reproductive, mutagenic, and cardiac toxins. Tobacco smoke is ...

Exposure to tobacco marketing and support for tobacco control policies.

OBJECTIVES To examine the salience of tobacco marketing on postsecondary campuses and student support for tobacco control policies. METHODS Face-to-face surveys were conducted with 1690 students at 3 universities in southwestern Ontario. RESULTS Virtually all (97%) students reported noticing tobacco marketing in the past year, and 35% reported noticing marketing on campus. There was strong ...

Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke