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• Secondhand Smoke & Children's Health - Updated pamphlets in both English and Spanish
  [07/21/06]
• Memorandum: Environmental Tobacco Smoke as a Toxic Air Contaminant to Which Infants and Children May Be Especially Susceptible
  [02/02/06]
• California became the first state to declare secondhand smoke a toxic air pollutant yesterday. ETS was listed as a TAC because of the numerous health effects linked to exposure including development of asthma, heart disease, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, respiratory infections in children, lung cancer and breast cancer.
  [01/27/06]
• Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Final Report, Approved at the Panel's June 24, 2005 Meeting
  [09/01/05]
• Scientific Review Panel (SRP) Findings as a result of the review of the final report "Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke" (ETS). Adopted at the Panel's June 24, 2005 Meeting
  [06/24/05]
• Notice of Public Hearing to Identify Environmental Tobacco Smoke as a Toxic Air Contaminant (ARB Hearing)
  [12/08/05]
• Proposed Identification of Environmental Tobacco Smoke as a Toxic Air Contaminant (courtesy of ARB)
  [10/25/04] (updated 12/09/05)
• Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Previous Report, September 1997
  [09/97]