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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 5 Environmental tobacco smoke |
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| | In a group of infants in North Carolina, 53% of those age 3 weeks and 77% of one |
| | year olds had cotinine in urine samples, indicative of significant exposure to passive |
| | smoke. |
| | Journal of Pediatrics 114:774, 1989 |
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| | In a study from Shanghai, low birth weight babies living in households where there was |
| | a heavy smoker (a pack a day or more) had 4.48-fold increased risk for requiring |
| | hospitalization for a respiratory illness. |
| | American Review of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, January 1994, p. 54 |
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| | In California, one-third of all households occupied by a smoker are smoke-free (i.e., |
| | the smoker smokes outside only). In houses with children, half of all adults smoke |
| | outside only. |
| | Stanton Glantz, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco lecture, February 24, |
| | 1994 |
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| | "What the smoker does to himself may be his business, but what the smoker does to |
| | the nonsmoker is quite a different matter. This we see as the most dangerous |
| | development to the viability of the tobacco industry that has yet occurred." |
| | 1978 Roper Poll for the Tobacco Institute |
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| | Children with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke have elevated levels of |
| | carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons, as well as of cotinine, a metabolite of |
| | nicotine. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke for nonsmokers is estimated to |
| | be roughly one percent of the amount from direct exposure from active smoking. |
| | New York Times, September 21, 1994, p. A16 |
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