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==Terminology== [[Fritz Lickint]] created the term "passive smoking" ("''Passivrauchen''") in a publication in the [[German language]] during the 1930s. <ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(14)70064-5/fulltext |title=Fritz Lickint |last=Gourd |first=Katherine |date=2014 |journal=The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine |volume=2 |issue=5 |pages=358β359 |publisher=[[The Lancet]] |doi=10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70064-5 |pmid=24726404 |access-date=7 December 2023 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2017-09/Chapter%2032.%20The%20history%20of%20tobacco.pdf |title=Chapter 32 History of Tobacco |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2017 |website=www.afro.who.int |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] |access-date=7 December 2023 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Brawley |first1=Otis W. |last2=Glynn |first2=Thomas J.|last3=Khuri|first3=Fadlo R.|last4= Wender|first4=Richard C. |date=18 November 2013 |title=The first surgeon general's report on smoking and health: The 50th anniversary |journal=CA |volume=64 |issue=1 |pages=5β8 |doi= 10.3322/caac.21210 |pmid=24249254 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Terms used include "environmental tobacco smoke" to refer to the airborne matter, while "involuntary smoking" and "passive smoking" refer to exposure to secondhand smoke.<ref>{{cite web |title=Health Effects of Exposure to Secondhand Smoke |url=http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/healtheffects.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905193507/http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/healtheffects.html |archive-date=5 September 2015 |access-date=6 September 2015 |publisher=United States Environmental Protection Agency}}</ref><ref name=chapman>{{cite journal|last1=Chapman|first1=S.|title=Other people's smoke: what's in a name?|journal=Tobacco Control|date=1 June 2003|volume=12|issue=2|pages=113β4|doi=10.1136/tc.12.2.113 |pmid=12773710 |pmc=1747703}}</ref> The term "environmental tobacco smoke" can be traced back to a 1974 industry-sponsored meeting held in [[Bermuda]], while the term "passive smoking" was first used in the title of a scientific paper in 1970.<ref name=chapman/> The [[Surgeon General of the United States]] prefers to use the phrase "secondhand smoke" rather than "environmental tobacco smoke", stating that "The descriptor 'secondhand' captures the involuntary nature of the exposure, while 'environmental' does not."<ref name="sg-report"/>{{rp|9}} Most researchers consider the term "passive smoking" to be synonymous with "secondhand smoke".<ref name=protano/> In contrast, a 2011 commentary in ''[[Environmental Health Perspectives]]'' argued that research into "[[thirdhand smoke]]" renders it inappropriate to refer to passive smoking with the term "secondhand smoke", which the authors stated constitutes a [[pars pro toto]].<ref name=protano>{{cite journal|last1=Protano|first1=Carmela|last2=Vitali|first2=Matteo|title=The New Danger of Thirdhand Smoke: Why Passive Smoking Does Not Stop at Secondhand Smoke|journal=Environmental Health Perspectives|date=1 October 2011|volume=119|issue=10|pages=a422|doi=10.1289/ehp.1103956 |pmid=21968336 |pmc=3230455 }}</ref> The term "[[sidestream smoke]]" is sometimes used to refer to smoke that goes into the air directly from a burning [[cigarette]], [[cigar]], or [[smoking pipe (tobacco)|pipe]],<ref name="Sidestream Smoke">{{harvnb|IARC|2004|p=1191}}: "During smoking of cigarettes, cigars, pipes and other tobacco productions, in addition to the mainstream smoke drawn and inhaled by the smokers, a stream of smoke is released between puffs into the air from the burning cone. Once released, this stream (also known as the sidestream smoke) is mixed with exhaled mainstream smoke as well as the air in an indoor environment to form the secondhand smoke to which ..."</ref> while "mainstream smoke" refers to smoke that a smoker exhales.
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