There's going to be a vote in my canton on whether or not to ban smoking in bars. From an economics perspective the answer is an obvious no, as consumers in the past have chosen not to visit ...

In 2003, UCLA epidemiologist James Enstrom and I published a study of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)—also called "secondhand smoke" or "passive smoking"—in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Using ...

Children whose fathers experienced passive smoke exposure in childhood were significantly more likely to show impaired lung function as adults, based on data from more than 800 father-child pairs.

In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, researchers assess and quantify the adverse health effects of second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure. Study: Health effects associated with exposure to ...

Passive smoking not only harms lungs but also may raise the risk of blocked arteries, according to a study by researchers at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina. Nonsmokers regularly ...

Objective: The effects of passive smoke exposure on respiratory health are still under debate. Therefore, we examined the risk of respiratory symptoms related to passive smoke exposure among German ...

Asthmatic children are particularly vulnerable to second-hand smoke. It may increase the frequency and severity of asthma attacks, necessitating trips to the hospital. Today is World No-Tobacco Day – ...

A father's exposure to passive smoking as a child may impair the lifelong lung function of his children, putting them at risk of COPD-a risk that is heightened further if they are childhood passive ...

The prevalence of severe vitamin D (vitD) deficiency and its effect on tumour indices and clinical outcomes in patients with early breast cancer (EBC). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ...