International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. Supplement
© 1988
Misclassification of Smoking Habits and Passive Smoking
A Review of the Evidence
Authors: Lee, P.N.
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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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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Misclassification of Smoking Habits and Passive Smoking
- Book Subtitle
- A Review of the Evidence
- Authors
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- P.N. Lee
- Series Title
- International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. Supplement
- Copyright
- 1988
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-73822-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-73822-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-19425-5
- Series ISSN
- 1431-5777
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 103
- Topics