This website is dedicated to providing the public with accurate scientific information on exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. The focus is on scientific assessments of indoor, outdoor & in-vehicle air pollution levels caused by the smoking of tobacco.
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To highlight the 2008 law in California that prohibits smoking in a car with a minor present, a press conference was held on January 3, 2008 in Hollywood, CA. The conference was held by the State of California's Department of Health, Tobacco Control Section. Several state officials spoke at the conference. During this press conference, Dr. Neil Klepeis performed a demonstration of the levels of smoke that can occur inside an automobile when a smoker lights up. The demonstration was based on the methods and results of the 2007 paper by Ott et al.
The following video contains material that was presented at the press conference.
Some representatives of so-called "smokers' rights" organizations have been mischaracterizing the findings of our recently published study of outdoor tobacco smoke performed at Stanford University. Therefore, I have written this memorandum to clarify the findings of our research with respect to exposures occurring on outdoor dining patios.
--Neil Klepeis
Note: This memo can be downloaded in PDF format using the link below.
Drs. Klepeis and Ott, who are contributors to this website, have just published (May 2007) a scientific article on exposure to outdoor tobacco smoke. You can read a description and download the article, and we have also set up a page with some questions and answers regarding this study.
We have added an online booklet called "The ABC's of SHS: The Story of Exposure to Secondhand Smoke". This booklet contains introductory material on human exposure to secondhand smoke written for a general audience. You can read the booklet, section by section, directly from your computer screen, or you can make a printer-friedly version and print out the entire booklet (about 16 pages) from this website.
This booklet is a primer on the nature of SHS, or "secondhand smoke" exposure, sometimes also called "environmental tobacco smoke" (ETS). If you are new to the topic of SHS, then you should start here.
Please use the following link to see a printer-friendly version of the booklet as a single large page: HTML Version
