How many deaths are caused by second hand cigarette smoke?

Tobacco Control

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 383-388

  Woodward, Alistair ^a   Laugesen, Murray ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Health New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; Heart disease; Lung cancer; Mortality; Second hand smoke; Stroke; Sudden infant death syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEW ZEALAND; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 0035653542     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.10.4.383     Document Type: Article

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