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ets exposure, lung cancer - Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

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Lee, P .N ., Chamberlain, J ., and Alderson, M .R ., "Relationship of<br />

Passive Smoking to Risk of Lung Cancer and Other Smoki .ng-Associated<br />

Diseases," British Journal of Cancer 54 : 97-105, 1986 .<br />

<strong>exposure</strong> in the workplace and nonsmoker <strong>lung</strong> <strong>cancer</strong> was published in 1986<br />

Another European study including an assessment of ETS<br />

. The authors wrote that "overall the results showed no<br />

evidence of an effect of passive smoking on <strong>lung</strong> <strong>cancer</strong> incidence<br />

among lifelong nonsmokers," although they presented no odds ratios<br />

for workplace <strong>exposure</strong> . The following point estimates have been<br />

presented by one of the authors of this study in a recent book :<br />

for females, 0 .63 (95% CI 0 .17-2 .33) and for males, 1 .61 (95o CI<br />

0 .39-6 .60) .<br />

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