ReviewPloS one2015
The Health Effects of Passive Smoking: An Overview of Systematic Reviews Based on Observational Epidemiological Evidence.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 100 citations in OpenAlex.
- Chemical Components in the Breast Milk of Passive Smoker Women: A Systematic Review and Health Risks Assessment.Biological trace element research · 2025Pooled it
- Regulatory Policies for Alcohol, other Psychoactive Substances and Addictive Behaviours: The Role of Level of Use and Potency. A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- The relationship between public law-abiding tendency and safe COVID-19 behaviors, development of a new scale, and association with health-related behaviors.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2025Article
- Exploring the Cellular Impact of Size-Segregated Cigarette Aerosols: Insights into Indoor Particulate Matter Toxicity and Potential Therapeutic Interventions.Chemical research in toxicology · 2024Article
- Prevalence of smoking and its associated factors among students of the University of Dongola, Northern State, Sudan: a cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
- Youths' awareness and attitudes towards raising the minimum legal age of smoking and passive smoking in Singapore.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Changes in prevalence and socioeconomic inequalities in secondhand smoke exposure in Spanish children, 2016-2019.Tobacco induced diseases · 2024Article
- Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Pregnant Dogs: Maternal and Newborn Cotinine Levels: A Pilot Study.Veterinary sciences · 2023Article
- Clustering of Health and Oral Health-Compromising Behaviours in Army Personnel in Central Peninsular Malaysia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Cotinine as a Sentinel of Canine Exposure to Tobacco Smoke.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Tobacco smoke induces oxidative stress and alters pro-inflammatory cytokines and some trace elements in healthy indoor cats.Veterinary research forum : an international quarterly journal · 2023Article
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- Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Young People.Cureus · 2022Review
- Passive Smoking Is Associated with Multiple Heavy Metal Concentrations among Housewives in Shanxi Province, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Association of Rare Earth Elements with Passive Smoking among Housewives in Shanxi Province, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Association between objective measures and parent-reported measures of child tobacco smoke exposure: A secondary data analysis of four trials.Tobacco induced diseases · 2022Article
- Risk Assessment of Passive Smoking Based on Analysis of Hair Nicotine and Cotinine as Exposure Biomarkers by In-Tube Solid-Phase Microextraction Coupled On-Line to LC-MS/MS.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Reliability and Validity of a Life Course Passive Smoke Exposure Questionnaire in an Australian Cohort From Childhood to Adulthood.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2021Article
- Early detection of drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae by quantitative flow cytometry.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
purposeWe aim to systematically summarize the available epidemiological evidence to identify the impact of environmental tobacco smoke on health.
methodsA systematic literature search of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus for meta-analyses was conducted through January 2015. We included systematic reviews that investigated the association between passive smoking and certain diseases. Quantitative outcomes of association between passive smoking and the risk of certain diseases were summarized.
resultsSixteen meta-analyses covering 130 cohort studies, 159 case-control studies, and 161 cross-sectional studies and involving 25 diseases or health problems were reviewed. Passive smoking appears not to be significantly associated with eight diseases or health problems, but significantly elevates the risk for eleven specific diseases or health problems, including invasive meningococcal disease in children (OR 2.18; 95% CI 1.63-2.92), cervical cancer (OR 1.73; 95% CI 1.35-2.21), Neisseria meningitidis carriage (OR 1.68; 95% CI 1.19-2.36), Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage (OR 1.66; 95% CI 1.33-2.07), lower respiratory infections in infancy (OR 1.42; 95% CI 1.33-1.51), food allergy (OR 1.43; 95% CI 1.12-1.83), and so on.
conclusionsOur overview of systematic reviews of observational epidemiological evidence suggests that passive smoking is significantly associated with an increasing risk of many diseases or health problems, especially diseases in children and cancers.
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