Passive Smoking and Tuberculosis

Statistics and Passive Smoking

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...

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...

passive smoking: oral and dental effects.

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Passive smoking and heart disease.