Objectives: To estimate the risk of ischaemic heart disease caused by exposure to
environmental tobacco smoke and to explain why the associated excess risk is almost half …

Objectives. This review sought to determine whether passive smoking in the workplace has
roughly the same association with heart disease as passive smoking at home and to update …

Whether passive smoking or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) can cause coronary heart
disease (CHD) is controversial. We have undertaken a comprehensive review of the …

Disease risk due to smoking is not limited to smokers only. Passive smoking, exposure to
environmental tobacco smoke, is associated with adverse health effects, and it increases the …

A series of adverts has recently appeared in newspapers across Europe comparing the risk
of lung cancer from passive smoking with a variety of other apparent risks from everyday …

Several epidemiological studies have found a weak, but consistent association between
lung cancer in nonsmokers and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). In …

Background—A review by Glantz and Parmley published in 1995 and subsequently widely
cited claims to demonstrate that passive smoke exposure increases the risk of heart disease …

Background: Whether ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is caused by exposure to
environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), commonly known as “passive smoking”, has been …

Although most of the discussion of the health effects of passive smoking on nonsmokers has
concentrated on lung cancer (US Environmental Protection Agency, 1992), heart disease is …

It has been suggested that epidemiological studies of heart disease in nonsmokers support
the hypothesis that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) causes heart disease. This …