The impact of passive smoking on public health

In 1990, a Health Council advisory report was published on the harmfulness of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (‘passive smoking’). We now know much more than we did then. This was sufficient reason for the President of the Health Council to appoint a committee, with the task of assessing the current level of knowledge concerning the damage caused to public health by passive smoking. In particular, the Committee should focus on the extent to which such damage can be quantified. This advisory report presents the result of its deliberations.