BACKGROUND In a multi-unit housing (MUH) complex, secondhand smoke (SHS) can pass from one living space to another. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of SHS incursion, and to establish the relationship between SHS incursion and socio-demographic and built environmental factors in MUH in Korea. METHODS A population-based sample of 2600 residents (aged ≥19 years) living in M...

Smoking rates in the United States have dropped since the first Surgeon General’s report on the health effects of smoking was published in 1964.1 Decades of declining prevalence have slowed, however, with some 19.3% of US adults still smoking,2 and 53.6% of children showing biochemical evidence of exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS).3 It is well known that tobacco use leads to disease,4 and that...

global estimate of ShS Burden Call it what you will—passive smoking, environmental tobacco smoke, or secondhand smoke (SHS)—worldwide, exposure to the emissions from smokers’ cigarettes caused the premature death of an estimated 603,000 people in 2004, according to a team of academic and World Health Organization (WHO) researchers. This first global assessment of the burden of SHS was led by Ma...

Argentina and Uruguay have a high prevalence of smoking during pregnancy, as well as of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure. In this secondary analysis of a trial to implement brief smoking cessation counseling during antenatal care in Argentina and Uruguay, we aim to evaluate the effects of the intervention on the rates of self-reported SHS exposure at home and at work, and on attitudes recalled b...

OBJECTIVE Active smoking is a recognised risk factor for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Many studies have demonstrated an association between exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) and both coronary heart disease and stroke. In contrast, there is a paucity of studies on PAD. The goal of this study was to examine the association between level of exposure to SHS and risk of PAD among adults who h...

OBJECTIVES Secondhand smoke (SHS) is a defined occupational hazard. The association though between SHS exposure in semi-open air venues and tobacco specific carcinogen uptake is an area of debate. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross sectional survey of 49 semi-open air cafes in Athens, Greece was performed during the summer of 2008, prior to the adoption of the national smoke free legislation. All v...

RESEARCHDESIGNANDMETHODSdThe Strong Heart study (SHS) is a multicenter, prospective study of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors among AI adults. The present analysis used lung function assessment by standard spirometry at the SHS second examination (1993 to 1995) in 2,396 adults free of overt lung disease or CVD, with or without DM or MS. Among MS-free/DM-free participants, the d...

INTRODUCTION Tobacco control prevention efforts are important to protect people from exposure to dangerous tobacco smoke, support cessation, and reduce tobacco-use initiation. While smoke-free laws have been a widespread tobacco control strategy, little work has been done to examine the impact of smoke-free school policies. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of provincial smo...

BACKGROUND The history of governmental responses to the accumulation of scientific evidence about the harms of secondhand smoke (SHS) presents an intriguing case study of incremental public health policy development. Australia has long been considered a world-leader in progressive tobacco control policies, but in the last decade has fallen behind other jurisdictions in introducing SHS legislati...

OBJECTIVE To assess the role of secondhand smoke (SHS) in the etiology of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). DESIGN Matched case-control study. Associations between SHS and CRS were evaluated by conditional logistic regression odds ratios. SETTING Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan. PARTICIPANTS A total of 306 nonsmoking patients diagnosed as having an incident case of CRS and 306 age...