INTRODUCTION

Check out these resources for more information on the health effects of tobacco and second-hand smoke:

Washington Post, April 23
New Warning From the CDC (Centers for Disease Control):
Stay away from tobacco smoke if you are at risk for heart disease!

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CP, March 7, 2003
Manitoba doctors release new study on impacts of second-hand smoke
The Manitoba Medical Association's newly released study of short-term effects on 45 workers at both smoking and non-smoking bars and restaurants in Winnipeg and Brandon, shows that second-hand smoke makes restaurant and bar workers more susceptible to colds and other annoying symptoms.

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CNW, February 11, 2003
OMA calls for complete smoking ban in work and public places
The report entitled, The Duty to Protect: Eliminating Second-Hand Smoke from Public Places and Workplaces in Ontario, proposes three immediate actions the provincial government can take to eliminate exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke in all provincial work and public places.

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CP, June 20, 2000
Panel Says Second-hand Smoke Causes Cancer
An international scientific panel has concluded that second-hand smoke causes cancer, a finding that should end one of the more stubborn controversies in cancer research. Twenty-nine experts convened by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an agency of the World Health Organization, also concluded smoking causes several types of cancers for which it had not previously been blamed.

The panel, including experts from 12 countries, reviewed all significant published evidence related to tobacco smoking and cancer, and its conclusion on the effects of second-hand smoke was unanimous. The panel found that smoking can cause cancer of the stomach, liver, uterine cervix (renal cell carcinoma) and the myeloid leukemia. Those cancers have not previously been definitively linked with smoking.
See the following link for further information: http://www.iarc.fr/pageroot/PRELEASES/pr141a.html

Smoking In Pregnancy Causes Many Child Asthma Cases