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, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. Supplement
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Physical Description: | XIII, 103 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783642738227 |