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Here is the complete list of the primary studies on passive smoking and lung cancer. They are all based on questionnaires on distant and unverifiable memories of exposure of decades earlier, often applied to the heirs of a deceased person. Questions such as: “I want you to remember your childhood, and how many cigarettes, pipes or cigars you were exposed to when your relatives came to visit” are the norm. Those memories are then transformed into “exact” numbers. It does not take a specialist to understand that this is wild guess and unethical science; but this is the only foundation of smoking bans all over the world.

Mortality associated with passive smoking in Hong Kong | McGhee SM, Ho SY, Schooling M, Ho LM, Thomas GN, Hedley AJ, Mak KJ, Peto R, Lam TH.
Article Published: 2005

Details:
Risk: RR= 1.38 (0.94 to 2.04) from text table. Cardiovascular: RR= 1.36 (1.02 to 1.81)
Type: Case-Control
Funding Source: Hong Kong Health Services Research Committee (631012) and Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health
Significance: Not Statistically Significant Positive

Published By: BMJ 330: 287-288

Keywords: Hong Kong, males, men, females, women

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Environmental tobacco smoke and risk of respiratory cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in former smokers and never smokers in the EPIC prospective study | Vineis P, Airoldi L, Veglia F, Olgiati L, Pastorelli R, Autrup H, Dunning A, Garte S, Gormally E, Hainaut P, Malaveille C, Matullo G, Peluso M, Overvad K, Tjonneland A, Clavel-Chapelon F, Boeing H, Krogh V, Palli D, Panico S, Tumino R, Bueno-De-M
Article Published: 2005

Details:
Risk: RR= 2.08 (1.31-3.29) from USEPA 1992, Table 5-5
Type: Cohort
Funding Source: European Community (5th Framework Programme) (grant QLK4-CT-1999-00927), Compagnia di San Paolo, Europe Against Cancer Programme of the European Commission (SANCO), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, German Federal Ministry of Educatio
Significance: Statistically Significant Positive

Published By: BMJ, 2005;330:277-281

Keywords: Prospective, cotinine, EPIC

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Secondhand smoke exposure in adulthood and risk of lung cancer among never smokers: a pooled analysis of two large studies | Brennan P, Buffler PA, Reynolds P, et al
Article Published: 2004

Details:
Risk: OR = 1.18 (95%CI 1.01-1.37)
Type: Meta-Analysis
Funding Source: see further information
Significance: Statistically Significant Positive

Published By: Int J Cancer, 2004;109: 125–131

Keywords: meta analysis, IARC, males, men, females, women

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Environmental tobacco smoke exposure in women with lung cancer | de Andrade M, Ebbert Jo, Wampfler JA, et al.
Article Published: 2004

Details:
Risk: This is an histology mapping study. It reports no risk estimates
Type: Cohort
Funding Source: see further information
Significance: Not Statistically Significant Negative

Published By: Lung Cancer 2004; 43:127-134

Keywords: women, females, Mayo Clinic, proxy interview

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Risk factors associated with lung cancer in Hong Kong | Chan-Yeung M, Koo LC, Ho JC-M, Tsang KW-T, Chau W-S, Chiu S-W, Ip MS-M, Lam WK.
Article Published: 2003

Details:
Risk: RR= 1.01 (0.47-2.18) from text Table 2
Type: Case-Control
Funding Source: see further information
Significance: Not Statistically Significant Positive

Published By: Lung Cancer, 2003;40:131-140

Keywords: Hong Kong, men, males, women, females

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Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98 | Enstrom JE, Kabat GC
Article Published: 2003

Details:
Risk: Lung cancer: RR= 0.75 (0.42-1.35) from the abstract of the study. Cardiovascular: RR= 0.94 (0.85-1.05) from text table 8.1, CALEPA 2004
Type: Cohort
Funding Source: see further information
Significance: Not Statistically Significant Negative

Published By: Br Med JA, 2003;326(7398):1057

Keywords: California

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Adenocarcinoma of the lung among women: risk associated with smoking, prior lung disease, diet and menstrual and pregnancy history | Zatloukal P, Kubik A, Norbert P, Tomasek L, Petruzelka L
Article Published: 2003

Details:
Risk: RR= 0.66 (0.22-1.96) from text Table 3
Type: Case-Control
Funding Source: see further information
Significance: Not Statistically Significant Negative

Published By: Lung Cancer, 2003;41:283-293

Keywords: Czech, Prague, women, females, childhood

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Smoking, passive smoking and lung cancer cell types among women in Poland | Rachtan J
Article Published: 2002

Details:
Risk: RR= 2.65 (1.47-4.80) from text table 5
Type: Case-Control
Funding Source: see further information
Significance: Statistically Significant Positive

Published By: Lung Cancer, 2002;35(2):129-36.

Keywords: Poland, women, females

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Mortality from Cancer and Other Causes among Airline Cabin Attendants in Germany, 1960–1997 | Maria Blettner, Hajo Zeeb, Ingo Langner, Gaël P. Hammer, Thomas Schafft
Article Published: 2002

Details:
Type: Cohort
Funding Source: See "Further Information" notes
Significance: See "Further Information" notes

Published By: American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 156, No. 6, 2002

Keywords: Germany, airliner, crew, attendants, flight attendants, Lufthansa

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