A: When I first became a doctor, very few people thought that secondhand smoke affected your health. I was one of the skeptics. It just seemed like the amount of smoke you take into your lungs ...

A meta-analysis of published epidemiological studies has found that exposure to second-hand smoke can significantly increase the risk of breast cancer in women who do not smoke. The study is ...

Second-hand smoke's mark on the DNA While the effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy have long been known to affect the epigenome, this research is among the first to show how second-hand ...

Big Tobacco pushed the idea that "common courtesy" was enough to protect nonsmokers from toxic secondhand smoke, and that smoke-free laws were unnecessary. It wasn't true then, and it's not true ...

Breathing second-hand smoke during childhood can lead to long-term breathing and health problems, and a shorter life expectancy, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart ...

Regarding the Jan. 20 Metro article “Neighbor sues over legal pot smell”: I am a physicist and a secondhand smoke consultant with 66 peer-reviewed papers in the scientific literature.

The harm that second-hand smoke causes to family pets is the focus of a new NHS health campaign. NHS Lanarkshire has teamed up with local vets to highlight how smoking affects not just other ...

The Council has adopted a recommendation that will help reduce exposure to second-hand smoke and aerosols and achieve a tobacco-free generation in Europe by 2040 as set out in Europe’s Beating Cancer ...