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Study: Passive Smoking-Cancer Link Found

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 22nd, 1997

U.S. researchers said they had found a cancer-causing chemical in the bodies of people exposed to second-hand smoke - the first hard evidence of how passive smoking can cause cancer.

The compound, NNK, is found in the urine of people exposed to tobacco smoke but not in those who have not breathed someone else's smoke, Stephen Hecht and colleagues at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center in Minneapolis found. They told a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Las Vegas, Nevada, that NNK is found only in tobacco smoke.

"This is the first time that a metabolite of a tobacco-specific lung carcinogen has been found in the urine of non-smokers...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-09-22)

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