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Smoking
New smoking data have been reported by scientists at University of Otago
July 14th, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, "This study assessed the utility of spousal smoking as a measure of secondhand smoke exposure. The investigation involved secondary analysis of data from 526 female participants of a lung cancer case-control study from northeastern U.K.." "Secondhand smoke exposure was measured in the home (spousal and nonspousal), workplace, and social/other settings over the whole life course. Almost all women (99.1%) had at least 10 years of secondhand smoke exposure from at least one source, most commonly from parental smoking in childhood, and spousal smoking, the workplace, and social...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-07-14)
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