Second Hand Smoke

Resolve to Quit Smoking This Year for Your Pets' Sake

Ed Sayres | Posted 03.07.2012

Ed Sayres

Researchers at Tufts' School of Veterinary Medicine conducted a study in which they found that cats living in homes with smokers are twice as likely as cats living with non-smokers to acquire feline lymphoma cancer.

Does Secondhand Smoke Affect Pets?

Posted 12.21.2011

With the negative health effects of smoking cigarettes widely documented, it's not surprising that inhaling secondhand smoke can also impact your heal...

Lynne Peeples

'Thirdhand Smoke' Poses Health Risks Too

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.26.2011

Before this week, employees at the Indiana University Health medical center were free to step off the nonsmoking campus and light up a cigarette. Sure...

Smoking Ban Extended

Posted 10.16.2011

First it was restaurants and bars, then it was city parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas, and in 90 days, downtrodden New York smokers will be forbidd...

Adapting to a New World of Invisible Toxins

William Spear | Posted 06.24.2011

William Spear

It's a whole new ballgame, folks. Nearly every community in the modern world is facing an invisible enemy. Constant exposures to toxic loads in our en...

Second-Hand Smoke Linked To Kids' Mental Health

The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 06.06.2011

Children and teens who are exposed to second-hand smoke could be at greater risk of suffering from mental health disorders like depression, anxiety an...

How Second-Hand Smoke Could Get You Out Of Paying Rent

Posted 05.25.2011

Second-hand smoke might be annoying, but it has its benefits. A New York District Court judge ruled last week that an Upper East Side woman could bre...

Over 600,000 People Killed By Secondhand Smoke Every Year

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Secondhand smoke kills more than 600,000 people worldwide every year, according to a new study. In the first look at the global impact...