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. 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. 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:   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:   Protecting children from tobacco: a NSW Government discussion paper on the next steps to reduce tobacco-related harm, 2008
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   The NSW Government is looking at the next steps to reduce harm caused to the community from tobacco smoking. The Government is particularly interested in new ideas to prevent the next generation of young people from taking up smoking.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Tobacco
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The National Tobacco Strategy aims to improve the health of all Australians by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco in all its forms.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Environmental tobacco smoke
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The page contains information on passive smoking
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   National Tobacco Strategy
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The National Tobacco Strategy 2004-2009 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:   Nov 2007
Title:   Health Effects of Smoking
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information on the health effects of smoking.
Date:   Oct 2007
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. Discover reasons why children and young people start smoking and what you can do to help your children and young people be non-smokers.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Media release. Australia helps in reducing global smoking
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Australia has underscored its commitment to helping reduce smoking world-wide by committing an extra-budgetary contribution of US$200,000 to help implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Date:   Jul 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:   Media release. Further support for ban on smoking in cars welcomed
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Minister for Ageing, Christopher Pyne, has welcomed news that the Queensland State Government has supported his call to ban smoking in cars while children are present.
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Media release. Tasmanian ban on smoking in cars welcomed
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Assistant Minister for Health and Ageing, Christopher Pyne, has welcomed news that the Tasmanian State Government has heeded his call to ban smoking in cars while children are present.
Date:   Mar 2007
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:   Smoking - Q & A
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A range of questions on smoking. Our experts provide the answers.
Date:   Jan 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 2006
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 2006
Title:   Asthma and passive smoking
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Fast facts on the costs and effects of passive smoking.
Date:   Jul 2006
Title:   Passive smoking primes children for addiction
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   An article from New Scientist magazine that suggests passive smoking may make it more likely a child will smoke when they grow up.
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