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Does Passive Smoking cause Cancer?

 

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GreenFacts provides the Scientific Consensus on Tobacco

Brussels, 1 March 2005. The first international tobacco control treaty, initiated by the World Health Organization, has just taken effect. Moreover, the European Commission is launching a new, multi-million Euro anti-smoking campaign. Factual information on the health effects of smoking is therefore particularly timely.

Harmful effects of tobacco on smokers are well known, but to what extent are passive smokers also at risk? This and many other questions are addressed in the latest GreenFacts study on Active and Passive Smoking, a faithful summary of a recent report by IARC (the International Agency for Research on Cancer).

This study on Tobacco is accessible for free on: http://www.greenfacts.org/ (English) and http://www.greenfacts.org/fr/ (Français).

Click on the questions below to read the GreenFacts summary of the IARC report on Tobacco:

  1. What are the current trends in active smoking?
  2. What kinds of cancer does tobacco cause in smokers?
  3. Does tobacco cause cancer in test animals?
  4. What other biological effects can active smoking cause?
  5. What is passive smoking?
  6. Does passive smoking cause cancer?
  7. Does passive smoking cause other health effects?
  8. Conclusions on tobacco and cancer
  9. Other views

GreenFacts has published a wide range of studies on: aspartame, arsenic, boron, climate change, dioxins, endocrine disruptors, mercury, power lines, and water disinfectants. These studies provide on-line access to the scientific consensus on the topics covered. They target non-specialist environment and health stakeholders such as decision makers, journalists, medical professionals and teachers.

GreenFacts asbl is an independent non-advocacy non-profit organization based in Brussels. It publishes unbiased, faithful on-line summaries of authoritative scientific consensus documents on environment and health matters. GreenFacts was created in December 2001 by individuals from scientific institutions, environment and health non-profit organisations, and businesses, who called for wider access to impartial information on environment and health issues.

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