WV | DHHR | BPH | OEHP Page 1 of 9 Page 2 Contents Introduction Tobacco and Cardiovascular Disease Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Disease Diet and Cardiovascular Disease Summary Tobacco and CVD Listing of tobacco resources What is the connection between smoking and heart disease Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Contrary to public perception, ...

Home Fact Sheet on Secondhand Smoke (cont.) James. Repace, MSc., Physicist Ichiro Kawachi, PhD, Associate Professor Stanton Glantz, PhD., Professor 9/1/99 Secondhand Smoke and Cardiovascular Disease Law et al. (1997) review the evidence from 19 published studies of passive smoking and heart disease; they report that the average excess risk of ischemic heart disease from passive smoking ...

ETS EXPOSURE INCREASES HEART ATTACK RISK 20% The largest study of its kind to date has confirmed that married persons living with a smoking spouse increase their risk of heart attack by approximately 20%. This means that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) may be responsible for as many as 40, 000 heart attack deaths each year in the U.S. Below is a summary of the study: CIRC Environmental Tobacco ...

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Tobacco Top Story Overview Politics & Policy Lawsuits Health Issues Teen Smoking Industry News Opinion Secondhand Smoke Linked to Increased Heart Attack Rate By John Schwartz Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 20, 1997; Page A02 High exposure to secondhand smoke nearly doubles a woman's risk of having a heart attack, according to the largest study ever conducted on the issue. The study, ...

In January 1993 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared environmental tobacco smoke (also called ETS, secondhand smoke or passive smoke) a known human carcinogen (kar-SIN'o-jin). It was classified as an environmental toxin equivalent to asbestos and other hazardous substances. The EPA's report, ...

Study: Passive smoke an even greater risk May 19, 1997 Web posted at: 10:37 p.m. EDT (0237 GMT) From Correspondent Linda Ciampa DALLAS (CNN) -- New research provides some of the strongest evidence yet that constant exposure to passive smoke nearly doubles the risk of heart attack and death in non-smokers. The study, published in this week's American Heart Association's journal Circulation, finds ...

Archives of Internal Medicine Copyright 1995 by the American Medical Association, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610. Volume 155(18) October 9, 1995 pp 1942-1948 Passive Smoking and Cardiovascular Risk Kritz, Harald, MD; Schmid, Peter, MD; Sinzinger, Helmut, MD From the Rehabilitation Center Engelsbad-Melanie, Baden, Lower Austria (Dr Kritz); Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Center Bad ...

Secondhand Smoke Ups Heart Attack Risk 1:22 p.m. ET (1822 GMT) March 16, 1998 NEW YORK Nonsmoking individuals living with heavy smokers have four times the risk of heart attack compared with those who live in smoke-free environments, according to a study. These results underline the importance of new public health policy against environmental tobacco smoke, '' say Argentine researchers led by Dr.