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2010 Nov 26 - Second-hand smoke's worldwide disease toll

2010 Nov 26 - Second-hand smoke's worldwide disease toll

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Heather L Wipfli a, Jonathan M Samet a. The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 26 November 2010

Despite mounting global efforts to control tobacco use, tobacco smoking remains a common addiction with over 1 billion smokers in the world—about 40% of men and 10% of women. 1

As a result, exposure to second-hand smoke, a known cause of morbidity and premature mortality, is widespread, occurring wherever people spend time in the presence of smokers. In The Lancet , Mattias Öberg and colleagues 2 present first estimates on the extent of worldwide exposure to second-hand smoke in 2004 and the associate ...

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