The dangers of secondhand smoke

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• Personal Author:
  Pechter E
• Description:
  We are pleased to announce in this issue of the SENSOR Occupational Lung Disease Bulletin that the Occupational Health Surveillance Program has received funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to continue surveillance of work-related asthma in Massachusetts for the next four years. Massachusetts is one of four states with NIOSH support to participate in the SENSOR asthma program. This grant will allow us to continue to collect data on work-related asthma (WRA) to identify respiratory hazards in Massachusetts workplaces and target prevention efforts. On June 27, 2006, the US Surgeon General, Richard Carmona, released a report stating that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. While this caution was based primarily on evidence that secondhand smoke causes cardiovascular disease and lung cancer, it also documents the association between secondhand smoke and adult asthma. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asthma Asthma, Occupational Lung Lung Diseases Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Smoke Smokers Tobacco Products Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Bronchial-asthma Cigarette-smoking Employee-exposure Health-care Lung-disease Lung-irritants Occupational-diseases Occupational-exposure Occupational-health Occupational-respiratory-disease Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiratory-system-disorders Smoking Surveillance-programs Tobacco-smoke Work-environment

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042654
• Citation:
  SENSOR Occup Lung Dis Bull 2006 Oct; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, 250 Washington Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts State Department of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19880415
• Source Full Name:
  SENSOR Occupational Lung Disease Bulletin
• End Date:
  20050929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194809/cdc_194809_DS1.pdf
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