| Misclassification of Smoking Habits and Passive Smoking: A Review of the Evidence Contributor(s): Lee, P. N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3540194258 ISBN-13: 9783540194255 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Biostatistics - Medical | Pharmacology - Medical | Oncology - General |
| Dewey: 616.994 |
| Series: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Hea |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.45 lbs) 103 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |