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"item_title" : "Misclassification of Smoking Habits and Passive Smoking",
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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9783540194255
- ISBN-10: 3540194258
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: October 1988
- Dimensions: 9.61 x 6.69 x 0.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.45 pounds
- Page Count: 103
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