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 Sept 2007

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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:   May 2008
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:   May 2008
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:   May 2008
Title:   Passive smoking
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Passive smoking means breathing in other people's tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke is a common indoor air pollutant. Children, pregnant women and the partners of smokers are vulnerable to the effects of environmental tobacco smoke.
Date:   Oct 2007
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:   Jun 2007
Title:   Asthma and passive smoking
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Fast facts on the costs and effects of passive smoking.
Date:   Jul 2006
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. If a child already has the condition, cigarette smoke will provoke more frequent and more severe asthma attacks.
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Asthma and smoking
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Asthma is more common in both adults and adolescents who smoke. Cigarette smoke is a trigger for people with asthma, so people with asthma need to avoid smoky places whenever possible.
Date:   Oct 2007
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 there is not enough evidence to show which interventions are most effective for decreasing parental smoking and preventing exposure to tobacco smoke in childhoodChildren exposed to cigarette smoke are at greater risk of lung problems, infectio...
Date:   Mar 2002
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 prevent people smoking in public places.
Date:   Apr 2000
Title:   Car and Home: Smoke Free Zone Campaign
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   How passive smoking harms children, and what parents can do to protect them.
Date:   Sep 2002
Title:   Environmental tobacco smoke
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The page contains information on passive smoking
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Asthma and smoking
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:   Smoking and pregnancy
Publisher:   NSW Health
Description:   Smoking is known to have an effect on babies even before they are born. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 harmful substances that both you and your baby are exposed to when you smoke.
Date:   May 2004
Title:   Health Effects of Smoking
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information on the health effects of smoking.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Smoking - Q & A
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A range of questions on smoking. Our experts provide the answers.
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Reasons to quit smoking
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Have you thought about quitting smoking? There are a lot of good reasons to quit.
Date:   May 2001
Title:   Aboriginal - smoking close to children
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Children breathe in smoke from the adults around them. If adults smoke, the children in their family can suffer more sickness.
Date:   Mar 2005
Title:   Smoking in early pregnancy
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   A study has shown that smoking in early pregnancy doubles the risk of the children showing aggressive behaviour at age 5.
Date:   May 2002
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