Selected published papers and reports on the health effects of secondhand smoke

Action on Smoking or Health. Passive Smoking: A summary of the evidence. London: ASH-UK; October 2001. Available online at www.ash.org.uk/html/passive/html/passive.html.

Barnes D, Bero L. Industry-funded research and conflict of interest: an analysis of research sponsored by the tobacco industry through the Center for Indoor Air Research. J Health Politics Policy and Law. 1996; 21(3):515-542.

Barnes D, Bero L. Why review articles on the health effects of passive smoking reach different conclusions. JAMA. 1998; 279:1566-1570.

Bero L, Galbraith A, Rennie D. Sponsored symposia on environmental tobacco smoke. JAMA. 1994; 271:612-617.

Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents. Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organization. Geneva: WHO; July 2000. URL: http://filestore.who.int/~who/home/tobacco/tobacco.pdf

Drope J, Chapman S. Tobacco industry efforts at discrediting scientific knowledge of environmental tobacco smoke: A review of internal industry documents. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2001; 55:588-594.

Emerson, Elizabeth. California Lessons in Clean Indoor Air; A Compilation of Campaign Stories, Implementation Tools, and Compliance Strategies. California Department of Health Services, Tobacco Control Section, May 2001 This guide is available in English and Spanish and is a practical handbook on implementing and enforcing clean indoor air policies, based on the extensive experience of tobacco control advocates in California. (For information on ordering the guide, contact Elizabeth Emerson at smokefreeint@earthlink.net.)

Hirschhorn N, Aguinaga Bialous S, Shatenstein S. Philip Morris' new scientific initiative: An analysis. Tobacco Control. 2001; 10:247-252.

Muggli M, Forster J, Hurt R, Repace J. The smoke you don't see: Uncovering tobacco industry scientific strategies aimed against control of environmental tobacco smoke. American Journal of Public Health. 2001; 91(9):1419-1423.