Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) Fact Sheets

Business Costs In Smoke-filled Environments

Don't Buy the Ventilation Lie

Economic Impact of Smokefree Laws: Case Studies

Economic Impact of Smokefree Ordinances: An Overview

Economic Impact Studies Circulated by the Tobacco Industry

Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Children

Patron Surveys and Consumer Behavior

Secondhand Smoke: The Science

Secondhand Smoke: Worker Health

Ventilation and Air Filtration: The Science

Ventilation and Air Filtration: What Air Filtration Companies and the Tobacco Industry Are Saying

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Fact Sheets

Harm to Kids from Secondhand Smoke

Health Harms from Secondhand Smoke or Short Version

Secondhand Smoke, EPA, & the Courts

Smoke-Free Laws Do Not Harm Business at Restaurants and Bars

Toll of Tobacco in Illinois

Ventilation Technology Does Not Protect People from Secondhand Tobacco Smoke

What Is In Secondhand Smoke?

Understanding Junk Science

Fake Economics

Cooking the Books

How to Tell the Good Economic Studies From the Bad

Database of Economic Studies

What to Look For in an Economic Impact Study

Major Publications by National Agencies

NEW! United States Department of Health and Human Services. (2006). The health consequences of involuntary smoking. Report published by the Surgeon General.

American Society of Heating, refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc (ASHRAE). (2005). Environmental Tobacco Smoke. Report published by ASHRAE.

California Environmental Protection Agency. (2005). Proposed identification of environmental tobacco smoke as a toxic air contaminant. Report published by the State of California.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2005).   Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals. Report published by the CDC.

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). (2002). Monograph on Active and Passive Smoking. Report Published by the World Health Organization. - Who Press Release

National Cancer Institute. (1997). Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph No. 10. Report published by the National Cancer Institute.

National Toxicology Program. (2005). 11th Report on Carcinogens – Tobacco Related Exposures Section.   Report published by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences'.

United States Department of Health and Human Services. (1986).   The health consequences of involuntary smoking. Report published by the Surgeon General.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (1992). Respiratory health effects of passive smoking: Lung cancer and other disorders. Report published by the U.S. EPA.

Secondhand Smoke Articles

Albers, A.B., Siegel, M, Cheng, D.M., Rigotti, N., & Biener, L. (2004). Effects of restaurant and bar smoking regulations on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among Massachusetts adults. American Journal of Public Health, 94(11), 1959-1964.

Bartecchi, C., Alsever, R.N., Nevin-Woods, C., Thomas, W.M., Estacio, R.O., Bartelson, B.B. and Krantz, M.J. Reduction in the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction Associated With a Citywide Smoking Ordinance. Circulation 2006: published online before print September 25, 2006.

Diethelm, P.A., Rielle, J.C., & McKee, M. (2004). The whole truth and nothing but the truth? The research that Philip Morris did not want you to see. The Lancet, 366, 86-92.

Farrelly, M.C., Nonnemaker, J.M., Chou, R., Hyland, A., Peterson, K.K. & Bauer, U.E. (2005). Changes in hospitality workers' exposure to secondhand smoke following the implementation of New York's smoke free law. Tobacco Control, 14, 236-241.

Jamrozik, K. (2005). Estimate of deaths attributable to passive smoking among UK adults: database analysis. British Medical Journal, 330; 812-817.

Law, M. R., Morris, J. K., Wald, N. J. (1997). Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and ischemic heart disease: an evaluation of the evidence. British Medical Journal, 315 (October 18), 973-980.

Mulcahy, M., Evans, D.S., Hammond, S.K., Repace, J.L., & Byrne, M. (2005). Secondhand smoke exposure and risk following the Irish smoking ban: An assessment of salivary cotinine concentrations in hotel workers and air nicotine levels in bars. Tobacco Control, 14, 384-388.

Ong, E.K. & Glantz, S.A. (2000). Tobacco industry efforts subverting International Agency for Research on Cancer's secondhand smoke study. The Lancet, 355, 1253-1259.

Ong, M.K., & Glantz, S.A. (2004). Cardiovascular health and economic effects of smoke free workplaces. American Journal of Medicine, 117, 32-38.

Pechacek, T.F., & Babb, S. (2004). Commentary: How acute and reversible are the cardiovascular risks of secondhand smoke? British Medical Journal, 328 (April 24), 980-983.

Penn, A., Chen, L.C., & Snyder, C.A. (1994). Inhalation of steady-state sidestream smoke from one cigarette promotes arteriosclerotic plaque development. Circulation, 90, 1363-1367.

Sargent, R.P., Shepherd, R.M. & Glantz, S.A. (2004). Reduced incidence of admissions for myocardial infarction associated with public smoking ban: before and after study. British Medical Journal, 328 (April 24), 977-980.

Schick, S., & Glantz, S.A. (2005). Philip Morris toxicological experiments with fresh sidestream smoke: More toxic than mainstream smoke. Tobacco Control, 14, 396-404.

Shopland, D.R., Anderson, C.M., Burns, D.M., & Gerlach, K.K. (2004). Disparities in smoke free workplace policies among food service workers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 46(4), 347-356.

Steenland, K., Thun, M., Lally, C., & Heath, C. (1996). Environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease in the American Cancer Society CPS-II Cohort. Circulation, 94, 622-628.

Sweda, E.L. (2004). Lawsuits and secondhand smoke. Tobacco Control, 12(Suppl 1), 61-66.

Whincup, P.H., Gilg, J.A., Emberson, J.R., Jarvis, M.J., Feyerabend, C., Bryant, A., Walker, M., & Cook, D.G. (2004). Passive smoking and the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: perspective study with cotinine measurement. British Medical Journal, 328 (June 30).

Economic Impact Studies

Bureau of Economic and Business Research. (2004). The economic impact of Florida's smoke free workplace law. Report published by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida.

Center for Business and Economic Research. (2005). Assessing the economic impact of the Fayetteville, Arkansas smoking ban. Report published by the Sam M. Walton, College of Business.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2004). Impact of a smoking ban on restaurant and bar revenues – El Paso, TX, 2002. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 53 (7).

Glantz, S.A., & Smith, L.R. (1994). The effects of ordinances requiring smoke free restaurants and bars on revenues. American Journal of Public Health, 84(7), 1081-1085.

Glantz, S.A., & Smith, L.R. (1997). The effects of ordinances requiring smoke free restaurants and bars on revenues: A follow up. American Journal of Public Health, 87(10), 1687-1693.

Harvard School of Public Health. (2005). Evaluation of the Massachusetts smoke free workplace law. Report published by the Harvard School of Public Health.

Huang, P. (February 28, 2005). Letter from the Texas Department of State Health Services to Houston, Texas Mayor White and City Council Members.

Hyland, A., Puli, V., Cummings, M., Sciandra, R. (2003). New York's smoke-free regulations: Effects on employment and sales in the hospitality industry. Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, 2003; 44(3), 9-16.

New York City. (2004). The state of smoke free New York City. Report published by the New York City Department of Finance, Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Department of Small Business Services, and Economic Development Corporation.

Scollo, M. & Lal, A. (2005). Summary of studies assessing the economic impact of smoke free policies in the hospitality industry. Report published by VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Australia.

Scollo, M., Lal, A., Hyland, A., & Glantz, S. (2003). Review of the quality of studies on the economic effects of smoke free policies on the hospitality industry. Tobacco Control, 12, 13-20.

University of Kentucky. (2005). Economic impact of Lexington's smoke free law: A progress report. Report published by the University of Kentucky, College of Nursing and College of Business and Economics.