Some 126 million nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke, what U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona repeatedly calls "involuntary smoking" that puts people at increased risk of death from lung ...

You move because you don’t want the stink to linger on your clothes, you joke to your companion that you’re getting high without even buying weed, and you wonder whether the second-hand smoke ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study links second-hand smoke to hearing loss in children. Some 1,500 teenagers were given hearing tests in the study. They were also tested for cotinine, which is produced when nicotine is ...

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 ...

Second-hand smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, with at least 250 of them being known toxins and around 70 classified as carcinogens. These harmful substances include nicotine, carbon monoxide ...

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 ...