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Welcome to the new Scientific Evidence Portal on smoking. This area is meant as an educational tool to debunk misinformation and exaggerations about active and passive smoking, and it may be a valuable source of information for researchers. This archive is frequently updated, and we invite you to visit it often. If this is your first visit here, you may wish to read our section Getting The Most From The Evidence Portal

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Tobacco Smoke and Involuntary Smoking | IARC - International Agency for Research on Cancer

Article Published: 2002

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This item is in the Official Reports on Passive Smoking category of this portal
Type: Meta-Analysis
Significance: Statistically Significant Positive

Published By: World Health Organization

Keywords: IARC, fraud, passive, smoking, environmental, tobacco, smoke, ETS

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Why is the death rate from lung cancer falling in the Russian Federation? | Vladimir Shkolnikov, Martin McKee, David Leon, Laurent Chenet

Article Published: 2004

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This item is in the Active Smoking category of this portal
Type: Cohort
Published By: European Journal of Epidemiology, Springer Netherlands

Keywords: active, smoking, russia, russian, federation, Shkolnikov, McKee, Leon, Chenet

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Reduction of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the Hospitality Industry by Ventilation and Air Cleaning | W.F. de Gids, A. Opperhuizen

Article Published: 2004

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This item is in the Ventilation category of this portal
Type: Experimental and Technical
Funding Source: This study was conducted in the framework of the Tobacco Smoke Ventilation Project, project number 340450, commissioned by the Directorate for Nutrition and Health Protection of the Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports
Significance: No Risk Estimate Reported

Published By: RIVM Report 340450001

Keywords: ventilation, passive, smoking, ETS, Netherlands, Dutch, hospitality, de Gids, Opperhuizen

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Ventilation performance for spaces where smoking is permitted: a review of previous work and field study results | AJ Geens, DG Snelson, JR Littlewood, J Ryan

Article Published: 2006

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This item is in the Ventilation category of this portal
Type: Meta-Analysis
Significance: No Risk Estimate Reported

Published By: Building Serv. Eng. Res. Technol. 27,3 (2006) pp. 235-248

Keywords: ventilation, air conditioning, CIBSE, passive, smoke, smoking, ETS, Geens, Snelson, Littlewood, Ryan

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Lifetime medical costs of obesity: prevention no cure for increasing health expenditure | Pieter H. M. van Baal, Johan J. Polder, G. Ardine de Wit, Rudolf T. Hoogenveen, Talitha L. Feenstra, Hendriek C. Boshuizen, Peter M. Engelfriet, Werner B. F. Brouwer

Article Published: 2008

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This item is in the The Cost of Non Smokers to Society category of this portal
Type: Economic
Funding Source: The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports
Published By: Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Keywords: obesity, smoking, cost, society, van Baal, Polder, de Wit, Hoogenveen, Feenstra, Boshuizen, Engelfriet, Brouwer

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Mainstream and Environmental Tobacco Smoke | Gio Batta Gori, Nathan Mantel

Article Published: 2008/06/05

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This item is in the ETS and other diseases category of this portal
Type: Articles and Dissertations
Funding Source: Supported in part by the Tobacco Institute, this essay represents the independent thought of the authors alone.
Significance: No Risk Estimate Reported

Published By: Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 14, 88-105 (1991)

Keywords: threshold, value, passive, smoking, ETS, Gori, Mantel

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Letter of ASH to GlaxoSmithKline | Clive Bates

Article Published: 2001

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This item is in the Who Pays Whom category of this portal
Type: Correspondence
Published By: FORCES International

Keywords: ASH, Clive, Bates, Glaxo, GlaxoSmithKline, pharmaceutical, industry

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Smokers With Rheumatoid Arthritis May Have Lower Body Fat Than Nonsmokers | Laurie Barclay

Article Published: 2008

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This item is in the Therapeutic Effects of Smoking category of this portal
Type: Cross Sectional
Published By: Medscape

Keywords: arthritis, rheumatoid, Barclay, benefits, smoking

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Big Drug's Nicotine War | Wanda Hamilton

Article Published: 2008

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This item is in the Who Pays Whom category of this portal
Type: Investigative Research
Funding Source: Unpaid volunteer work
Published By: FORCES International - Original publication date: July 13, 2001

Keywords: nicotine, corruption, pharmaceutical, Big, Pharma, fraud, politics, marketing

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List of some Organizations, Institutions, Companies & Groups Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grants & Contracts | Wanda Hamilton

Article Published: 2000

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This item is in the Who Pays Whom category of this portal
Type: Investigative Research
Funding Source: Unpaid volunteer work
Published By: FORCES International

Keywords: organizarions, grants Robert, Wood, johnson, Foundation, Wanda, Hamilton

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