Posted on 03/07/2006 4:15:23 PM PST by qam1
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Several major meta-analyses have concluded that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) increases the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) by about 25% among never smokers. However, these reviews have excluded a large portion of the epidemiologic evidence on questionable grounds and have been inconsistent in the selection of the results that are included.
We conducted an updated meta-analysis and critique of the evidence on ETS exposure and its relationship to death from CHD among never smokers. Our focus is on the U.S. cohort studies, which provide the vast majority of the available evidence. ETS exposure is assessed in terms of spousal smoking, self-reported estimates, and personal monitoring. The epidemiologic results are summarized by means of overall relative risks and dose-response relationships. The methodological issues of publication bias, exposure misclassification, and confounding are discussed.
Several large studies indicate that spousal smoking history is a valid measure of relative exposure to ETS, particularly for females. Personal monitoring of nonsmokers indicates that their average ETS exposure from a smoking spouse is equivalent in terms of nicotine exposure to smoking less than 0.1 cigarettes per day.
When all relevant studies are included in the meta-analysis and results are appropriately combined, current or ever exposure to ETS, as approximated by spousal smoking, is associated with roughly a 5% increased risk of death from CHD in never smokers. Furthermore, there is no dose-response relationship and no elevated risk associated with the highest level of ETS exposure in males or females. An objective assessment of the available epidemiologic evidence indicates that the association of ETS with CHD death in U.S. never smokers is very weak. Previous assessments appear to have overestimated the strength of the association.
PMID: 16399662 [PubMed - in process]
There is a vast increase in 2nd hand deaths of busybodies
WHO did you hear that from?:)
Not to mention the anti-smokingNAZIS on FR!
I should be long gone. My father and uncle both smoked so much I had to get down on the floor to see the TV across the living room when I was a kid.
ROFL....thank you.....another pearl of wisdon and wit on FR.
Dang, I love this place.
Considering it so so addicting.............
Steve Milloy is my hero!!!!
I love your tagline, BTW!
You guys are absolutely killing me here...........I'my dying from second hand laughter :)
It would be fodder for parody if it weren't true.
Such idiots, telling the rest of us how to live!
Can we have a class action suit against Meathead for all the contrails he obviously creates on take off, and flight?
;-D
I laugh at them as well :)
I notice none of the residents antis have shown up - could be that there was too much fun going on early in the thread and it scared them off :)
The antis ARE parodies.......parodies of human beings that is.
"I'd rather fight, than switch"
LOL!
Remember that?
;-)
"The antis ARE parodies.......parodies of human beings that is"
I like that. Of course, everything I enjoy has a anti-group attached to it..... it's a wonder that they're not out in front of the house with torches and pitchforks right now. I am, however just an anti-anti.
You of course know where this is going and why it even has to be debated. Right?
On the way home from work tonight I saw a Billboard showing a filter cigarette with the middle of it squeezed to make it look like an hour glass.
The caption below this pictorial stated "This is what second hand smoke does to your arteries".
I don't know how many times it has to be impressed that following the money trail via deceptions such as this will enlighten the public.
First it's smoking, then it's law suits, then it's others smoking, then it's law suits, then it's money in the pocket, then it's political future, (well the likes of Skip Humphrey missed the boat on that one and had to depart to paradise with his pocket change)
Well, you get my drift anyway.
I wonder why diesel and jet fuel exhaust haven't been targeted as of yet?
As a matter of conscience, I am against anti-antis (Which means I am an anti-anti-anti)and am at the present time rounding up a posse of like minded individuals with pitch forks and torches.
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