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Misclassification of Smoking Habits and Passive Smoking: A Review of the Evidence

By Peter N. Lee (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1988
ISBN
978-3-540-19425-5, 978-3-642-73822-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-73822-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4024452 bytes)
Series
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Supplement
Edition
1
Pages
103\114
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Health Sciences; Oncology; Pharmacology/ToxicologyMedicineStatistics for Life Sciences

Description

How accurate are statements about smoking habits? This book presents the results of a comprehensive review in which the literature on the subject is newly interpreted. It is shown that smokers are misclassified as non-smokers in epidemiological studies often enough to explain the increased lung cancer risk seen in self-reported non-smokers in relation to their spouse's smoking habits. This study overturns the commonly held view that increased risk is a consequence of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and highlights the difficulty of making valid inferences from epidemiological data. No-one should draw conclusions about passive smoking before reading this book!

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