Select Annotated Bibliography on Secondhand Smoke
Axelrad R, Bayard SP, Jinot J. Setting the record straight: Secondhand smoke is a preventable health risk. Tobacco Control, 1994; 3:263-267.
• The authors provide responses to many of the criticisms of the EPA report.
Bonita R, Duncan J, Truelsen T, Jackson RT, Beaglehole R. Passive smoking as well as active smoking increase the risk of acute stroke. Tobacco Control, 1999; 8:156-160.
• Passive smoking significantly increases the risk of stroke in men and women.
Chen R, Tunstall-Pedoe H, Tavendale R. Environmental tobacco smoke and lung function in employees who never smoked: The Scottish MONICA study. Occup Environ Med, 2001; 58:563-568.
• A reduction in pulmonary function of workers is associated with passive smoking.
Eisner, MD, Smith AK, Blanc PD. Bartenders' respiratory health after establishment of smoke-free bars and taverns. JAMA, 1998; 280:1909-1914.
• The researchers collected data from bartenders' reports on their respiratory symptoms before and after the implementation of California's legislation prohibiting smoking in bars and taverns. Implementation of the law resulted in rapid improvement of the workers' respiratory health.
Glantz, SA. Smoke-free restaurant ordinances do not affect restaurant business. J Public Health Manag Pract, 1999; 5:vi-ix.
• A summary of the studies published through 1999 that used sales tax data to examine the economic impact of city and county ordinances. Other articles in this issue also discuss the impact of legislation.
Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, the Minnesota Department of Health, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Minnesota Smoke-Free Coalition. Secondhand Smoke: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Minnesotans, 2000. www.mpaat.org
• A report on Minnesotan's attitudes toward secondhand smoke that can be reviewed online at: www.mpaat.org. Click on “For Your Information” and the “Reports.”
Muggli ME, Forster JH, Hurt RD, Repace JL. The smoke you don't see: Uncovering tobacco industry scientific strategies aimed against environmental tobacco smoke policies. American Journal of Public Health, 2001; 1419-1423.
• Using the documents made available as a result of litigation, the authors discuss strategies used by the tobacco industry to react to the mounting evidence on the hazards of secondhand smoke.
National Cancer Institute. Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: The Report of the California Environmental Protection Agency. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph No. 10. Bethesda, MD. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH Pub. No. 99-4645, 1999.
• Information on exposure measurement and prevalence, developmental toxicity (including perinatal and postnatal manifestation), reproductive effects and respiratory health, carcinogenic and cardiovascular effects. Excellent summary of the literature published before 1997 provides.
National Institutes of Health. Respiratory health effects of passive smoking: Lung cancer and other disorders, the report of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph No. 4. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, NIH Pub. No. 93-3605, 1993.
• This landmark study drew fire from the tobacco industry and its attorneys who were aware of its implications for smoking regulations, particularly in the workplace.
Otsuka R, Watanabe H et al. Acute effects of passive smoking on the coronary circulation in healthy young adults. JAMA, 2001; 286:436-441.
• Measurement of the coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) of healthy subjects before and after they were exposed to secondhand smoke found that exposure significantly reduced mean CFVR in nonsmokers. This provided direct evidence that passive smoking may cause endothelial dysfunction of the coronary circulation in nonsmokers.
Repace J. (2000). Can ventilation control secondhand smoke in the hospitality industry? Retrieved May 20, 2002 from California Department of Human Services Web site: http://www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco/documents/fedOHSHAets.pdf .
• Debunks the proposition that ventilation can adequately reduce risk from passive smoking and concludes that “tornado-like levels of ventilation” would be necessary to protect the health of customers and hospitality staff workers.
Taylor R, Cumming R, Woodward A, Black M. Passive smoking and lung cancer: A cumulative meta-analysis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2001; 25:203-11.
• Studies published between 1981 and 1999 conclude that nonsmokers exposed to ETS are indeed at increased risk of lung cancer.
Tobacco Industry Strategies
Leo Burnett. Project Brass: A plan of action for the ETS issue. 1993.
• Prepared for Philip Morris by a public relations firm, this report provides a strategy to counteract information on and action against secondhand smoke that is partly in use today. A good example of the strategies of the tobacco industry as a whole, it may be accessed at www.pmdocs.com; enter 2023329411 in the search box.
Minnesota Forces Web site: www.tbns.net/rialtos/index.html.
• Insight into the minds of militant smokers and those opposed to clean indoor air legislation
* Resources are taken from the “Tools for Eliminating Secondhand Smoke in Your Community” Sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and the Minnesota Medical Association
