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fcorc 5-12 ~ IS 177 7 21 2 W 11 36 2.11<br />

Spourt smoled man op In .Ac.h od marru~c<br />

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'Oared on wm o/ 0- not al all, 1 . 4nk, 2- avsratc, )o a tot for at Aomc, at .or1, aunnt trartt, Iurnis kxsurc<br />

onc eapretlc would be 1I hours as tsEards<br />

panicuhlc mattct and SO hours as rctards nicotine .<br />

S+milarly, larvis et .1. (1965) havc Mown that the<br />

incrcasc in sahvary cotlninc in rctation so passive<br />

smoke cxfwsurc is kis than I'.4 of that in relation<br />

to activc amokc caf+osurc E :trapokatint hncarly<br />

from the t0-fold tclalwr rssk of king nncrr in<br />

lclalion to scllvc unoklnf would thcreforc predlct a<br />

cclative risk in rNation to rassive smoking kn than<br />

1 .1, while a quadratrc catrapotation, as tujlccted<br />

by Doll and Pcio (1979) would predict a lower risk<br />

aill . The contllct bctwrcn Ihc dou and the claimed<br />

raponse ia panicularly dear for the tasults ot<br />

Hirsyama (I"l) who found a aimitar efiact on<br />

lunj txncer ror passive anoking as fbr active<br />

smoking ot S ciprttla a day .<br />

5ccond, all the audia wffer from weak caposure<br />

data, most studia only obuinin3 infortnation on<br />

the tpowe's smoking habits and aonc obtaining<br />

obIoctivc data by measurement of ambicrlt Ilcveb of<br />

tnwkc oonstituents in thc air of the 6otrse or<br />

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workplacr anG/or of concentrations of constituents<br />

in body rluids .<br />

Third, ao Nudrcs adcquately uke into account<br />

the possibility that misclassification of activc<br />

smokers as non•txnokers may 6avs oonsiuently<br />

biascd relative mk estimates ",ard Activl :<br />

amokcn havc a lugh rslative nisk of king ancrr<br />

and apouscs' smoking kabits are positively<br />

Oorretate•d fecausc of this, t1 can 6e shown tbat if a<br />

tclalively tmall prof+ortion of arnoken reny<br />

amokinE, this resuhs in an aploreal c"tion in<br />

risk of IunE pnar in 'aon•smokcri tnarricd lo<br />

amoken compared to ' .on•atwkm' nsarriad to<br />

aan-smokcrs, even when .o rsar sffon of pasaive<br />

smoking caists A dcmonuration that this aouroc or<br />

Was is of rcal Imporuncc can be found in the study<br />

of Garfinkel tt .! . (1985) Used on ttrlvalidated<br />

smoking data takcn from hospilal taoles, a rolative<br />

risk of lun3 nncxr in relation so Musb .nd's<br />

smoking at (some of 1 .06 was pkulated, with<br />

t'eiativc risks of at kast 13 aecn irs rclation to each<br />

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