Passive smoking: Summary of rapid responses

SomePhysiological Responses to Acute Passive in Healthy Young Adults Smoking

Procedures: Fig. 1. Every subject took parts in 2 successive experiments, that is, a control experiment by sham smoking with non-lit cigarettes and an actua] passive smoking experiment. The habitual smekers took parts in both the experiments as passive smokers and active smokers. All of the subjects participated in the experiments in groups of 2 nonsmokers and 2 smokers. The subjects spent 3 an...

PASSIVE SMOKING AND THE RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG MARRIED NON-SMOKING WOMEN

Several epidemiological studies have reported that passive smoking (PS) is a public health hazard and perhaps increases the risk of heart disease. This study evaluated the relationship between female coronary heart disease and PS among married women who described themselves as non-smokers in an area of south-east Iran. Using household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of PS, a hospi...

Workplace exposure to passive smoking and risk of cardiovascular disease: summary of epidemiologic studies.

We reviewed the published epidemiologic studies addressing the relationship between workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and cardiovascular disease risk in three case-control studies and three cohort studies. Although the point estimates of risk for cardiovascular disease exceeded 1.0 in five of six studies, none of the relative risks was statistically significant because of ...

Statistics and Passive Smoking

Drinking and passive smoking.

I read with great interest the special report, “The health risks of passive smoking” (Chest 1983; 84:90-5). The nonsmokers’ rights movements have little power in Japan at present. In many cases, Japanese smokers themselves should be chastised for their smoking habits. They smoke in public, on trains, and even in the office at work. The harmful effects of passive smoking on nonsmokers do not app...