Hirayama, passive smoking and lung cancer: 30 years on and the numbers still don't lie

Public Health

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 179-181

  Smith, D R ^a   Beh, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

CANCER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH RISK; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SMOKING;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLICATION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 79955003736     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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