| The issue of passive smoking is very prominent in the minds of almost everyone in this day and age. |
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| This study supports the use of cotinine as an appropriate marker for passive smoking. |
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| However, this is a promising strategy if we really want to know whether passive smoking increases the risk of various diseases. |
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| Even if they benefit smokers, such cigarettes would not prevent passive smoking. |
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| What they do not say is that, in a situation analogous to passive smoking, children who do not work can also have occupational diseases. |
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| Living with someone who smokes is not the only relevant source of passive smoking, but few studies have taken account of all sources of exposure. |
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| Studies of passive smoking can be inaccurate because they rely on subjects to be honest about the amount they smoke. |
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| Before the 1990s, awareness of the danger of passive smoking was lower and smokers smoked freely at home. |
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| Existing evidence is already sufficient to implicate passive smoking as a cause of lung cancer and coronary heart disease. |
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| However, the evidence for the health effects of passive smoking is neither as consistent nor as iron clad as Thun wants to portray it. |
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| There is conclusive evidence that passive smoking causes lung cancer and coronary heart disease in adults. |
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| Other immediate effects of passive smoking include Headaches, nausea and eye irritation. |
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| The most important indoor source of these pollutants is active or passive smoking in study areas. |
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| In this the 21st century how can there possibly be any doubt as to the damage wrought by smoking and passive smoking? |
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| The immediate effects of passive smoking on children can range from eye soreness, headaches, sore throats to nausea and conditions like glue ear. |
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| The proportion of passive smoking at home was slightly higher among nonatopic workers. |
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| It said passive smoking not only killed but also made it more difficult for smokers to quit. |
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| The two health visitors researched information and evidence about passive smoking and the effect it had on children. |
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| The limits of epidemiology were stretched when it was demonstrated that passive smoking caused lung cancer. |
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| How much reliance do we place on this new data on passive smoking and snoring in adults? |
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| There is legitimate debate about the effects of passive smoking on heart disease and lung cancer. |
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| Most studies on passive smoking have examined the risks of living with someone who smokes. |
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| A British Medical Journal study showed passive smoking kills more than 11,000 people a year in the Britain. |
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| Gun control, crime statistics, global warming and passive smoking are grist to his mill. |
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| He has the same level of concern about the health implications of radio waves from phone masts as he does about passive smoking, he says. |
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| We accept that there is a possibility of risk involved in passive smoking, but that it has been blown out of all proportion. |
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| I cannot see how employees could suffer from passive smoking as they do not use the room in the evening. |
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| We must take action to stop the damage smoking and passive smoking do to people's health and people's lives. |
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| Young children are particularly vulnerable to the health impact of passive smoking. |
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| In 1981 an influential Japanese study showed an association between passive smoking and lung cancer. |
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| The wearable device allows people to monitor smoke and project the damage passive smoking can do to their heart, lungs and life expectancy. |
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| Our findings indicate that children at risk for atopy react sensitively to chemical substances that originate from passive smoking. |
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| Policies that ban smoking in public places are effective in reducing passive smoking among non-smokers generally. |
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| Perhaps I am being a tad simplistic here, obviously there's the issue of passive smoking. |
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| Each year 80 000 people die from passive smoking. Regardless of their own wishes they have breathed in a mixture of 250 carcinogens and toxins. |
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| Smoking is injurious to health but passive smoking can be more harmful. |
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| Another important public health benefit is the elimination of secondhand smoke, and therefore passive smoking, by the nonsmoker. |
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| She added the dangers of passive smoking are well documented, and foster carers should not smoke in front of children. |
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| In recent years, scientific knowledge of the dangers of passive smoking has increased. |
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| Several Member States have set an example that we should follow, taking sound and effective action to avert the dangers of passive smoking. |
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| He is Senior Scientific Editor for the next two reports, one on active smoking and the other on passive smoking. |
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| Could passive smoking in particular come within the scope of the survey in this programme? |
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| Every year, it causes the deaths of 650 000 people, and a further 79 000 adults die as a result of passive smoking. |
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| A second approach to evaluating the risks of passive smoking is to assess the exposure to known carcinogens produced by environmental tobacco smoke. |
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| The act of breathing in this secondary smoke is called passive smoking. |
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| Further reports confirmed this link in the 1980s and concluded in 1986 that passive smoking was also harmful. |
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| The creation of a Europe free from tobacco smoke and the prevention of passive smoking are two of the crucial tasks of the Union's environmental and public health policy. |
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| It had found that nearly 70 per cent of children were exposed to passive smoking at home, and that the smoking rate among children themselves was high. |
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| A further crucial aspect is the fight against passive smoking. |
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| I know the dangers of smoking and the dangers of passive smoking. |
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| But in girls passive smoking appeared to be associated with a lowering of blood pressure. |
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| Yet today the scaremongers have put the fear of God into non-smokers, passive smoking will kill you. |
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| Mr. PURAS asked whether the Government had envisaged the adoption of policies to reduce tobacco dependence, or to lower the exposure of children to passive smoking. |
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| In recent years it has also been shown that passive smoking is dangerous in particular to unborn children and infants and that it can cause or aggravate respiratory problems in persons inhaling smoke. |
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| First of all, a comprehensive smoking ban protects from passive smoking, it is a disincentive for people, especially young people, to begin smoking, it is an incentive for many people to quit. |
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| Will this programme concentrate just on the quality of the air outdoors and pollution, or could the investigation at the same time include a survey of the quality of the air indoors and especially passive smoking? |
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| The ban is part of the effort by the Dubai Economic Development in collaboration with the Dubai Health Authority to raise awareness regarding the dangers of passive smoking. |
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| The study of nearly 6,000 people in five provinces in China revealed that people exposed to passive smoking have a significantly increased risk of severe dementia syndromes. |
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| The majority of harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke are invisible and opening a window does little to prevent the harm of passive smoking reaching other people. |
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| Every year, about 170 children under the age of five in Warwickshire are taken to hospital with problems such as asthma, bronchitis and glue ear from passive smoking at home. |
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| Policy interventions to decrease passive smoking in public areas such as restaurants and workplaces have become more common in many Western countries. |
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