Misclassification of Smoking Habits and Passive Smoking [electronic resource] : A Review of the Evidence /

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!

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lee, Peter N. author., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Texto biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1988
Subjects:Statistics., Pharmacology., Oncology., Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences., Pharmacology/Toxicology.,
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73822-7
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