Misclassification of Smoking Habits and Passive Smoking : a Review of the Evidence /
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 canc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1988.
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| Series: | International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Supplement.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 103 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783642738227 (electronic bk.) 3642738222 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1431-5777 |