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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 January 2012
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| Title: | Passive smoking |
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| 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: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Passive smoking |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Passive smoking means breathing in other people's tobacco smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes and other sources. Second-hand 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: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Asthma and smoking |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Smokers with asthma have worse asthma control, more airway damage and faster loss of lung function. Second-hand smoke, or passive smoking, is a trigger for people with asthma, so people with asthma need to avoid smoky places whenever possible. |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Asthma children and smoking |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Parents who smoke put their children at greater risk of developing asthma. Smoking in pregnancy, including exposure to secondhand smoke from the father or other family members and friends, increases the risk of the child developing asthma. If a child already has asthma, exposure to cigarette smoke will provoke more frequent and more severe asthma attacks. |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Smoke-free kids |
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| 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 2011 |
| Title: | Tobacco |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | Policy and programs to improve the health of all Australians by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco in all its forms. |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | National Tobacco Strategy |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The National Tobacco Strategy 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: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Health Effects of Smoking |
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| Publisher: | HealthInsite Topic Page |
| Description: | Links to information on the health effects of smoking. |
| Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Title: | Tobacco smoke exposure and pregnancy - smoking and passive smoking during pregnancy |
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| Publisher: | Virtual Medical Centre.com |
| Description: | Smoking or being exposed to tobacco smoke, either before or during pregnancy is associated with a range of poor pregnancy outcomes, including reduced fertility, an increased risk of pregnancy complications and impaired infant and child development. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | New research adds to urgency of protecting children from second-hand smoke |
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| Publisher: | HealthInsite Editorial Team |
| Description: | Research presented to an international conference (Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health) in Sydney last week shows that children exposed to second-hand smoke have significantly higher rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), headaches and stuttering than those who are not exposed. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Environmental tobacco smoke |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | Information on environmental tobacco smoke (otherwise known as passive smoking). |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Passive smoking (living with a smoker) |
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| 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: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Passive smoking |
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| 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 2010 |
| Title: | Passive smoking |
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| 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 2010 |
| Title: | Aboriginal - smoking close to children |
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| 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: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Asthma and passive smoking - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | People with asthma are even more at risk from the effects of passive smoking than others. |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Smoking with kids in the car is now illegal |
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| 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: | Smoking with kids in the car is now illegal |
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| Publisher: | Multicultural Health Communication Service |
| Description: | Information about the new law, effective from July 1 2009, which forbids smoking in a car with a child under the age of 16. |
| Date: | May 2009 |
| Title: | Passive smoking |
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| Publisher: | The Cancer Council Australia |
| Description: | Cancer Council's position statement explains passive smoking and its health effects. The statement includes recommendations for reducing health risk by avoiding tobacco smoke. |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | Asthma and smoking - myDr.com.au |
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| 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 |
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