BMJ  2003;326:1057 (17 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1057

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Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98

¹ School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA, ² Department of Preventive Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8036, USA

Abstract

Objective To measure the relation between environmental tobacco smoke, as estimated by smoking in spouses, and long term mortality from tobacco related disease.

Design Prospective cohort study covering 39 years.

Setting Adult population of California, United States.

Participants 118 094 adults enrolled in late 1959 in the American Cancer Society cancer prevention study, who were followed until 1998. Particular focus is on the 35 561 never smokers who had a spouse in the study with known smoking habits.

Main outcome measures Relative risks and 95% confidence intervals for deaths from coronary heart disease, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease related to smoking in spouses and active cigarette smoking.

Results For participants followed from 1960 until 1998 the age adjusted relative risk (95% confidence interval) for never smokers married to ever smokers compared with never smokers married to never smokers was 0.94 (0.85 to 1.05) for coronary heart disease, 0.75 (0.42 to 1.35) for lung cancer, and 1.27 (0.78 to 2.08) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among 9619 men, and 1.01 (0.94 to 1.08), 0.99 (0.72 to 1.37), and 1.13 (0.80 to 1.58), respectively, among 25 942 women. No significant associations were found for current or former exposure to environmental tobacco smoke before or after adjusting for seven confounders and before or after excluding participants with pre-existing disease. No significant associations were found during the shorter follow up periods of 1960-5, 1966-72, 1973-85, and 1973-98.

Conclusions The results do not support a causal relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect. The association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed.

Introduction

Several major reviews have determined that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke increases the relative risk of coronary heart disease, based primarily on comparing never smokers married to smokers with never smokers married to never smokers. The American Heart Association, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the US surgeon general have concluded that the increase in coronary heart disease risk due to environmental tobacco smoke is 30% (relative risk 1.30). ^1–3 Meta-analyses of epidemiological studies have reported summary relative risks of about 1.30 for coronary heart disease ^4–6 and about 1.25 for lung cancer. ^{7 8} The US Environmental Protection Agency has classified environmental tobacco smoke as a known human carcinogen. ⁷ Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, primarily asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema, has been associated with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, but the evidence for increased mortality is sparse.^{2 3}

Although these reviews come to similar conclusions, the association between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related diseases is still controversial owing to several limitations in the epidemiological studies.^9–14 Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is difficult to measure quantitatively and therefore has been approximated by self reported estimates, primarily smoking history in spouses. Confounding by active cigarette smoking is so strong that the association with environmental tobacco smoke can only be evaluated among never smokers. The relation between tobacco related diseases and environmental tobacco smoke may be influenced by misclassification of some smokers as never smokers, misclassification of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, and several potential confounders. It is also unclear how the reported increased risk of coronary heart disease due to environmental tobacco smoke could be so close to the increased risk due to active smoking, since environmental tobacco smoke is much more dilute than actively inhaled smoke.

Most epidemiological studies have found that environmental tobacco smoke has a positive but not statistically significant relation to coronary heart disease and lung cancer. Meta-analyses have combined these inconclusive results to produce statistically significant summary relative risks.^4–8 However, there are problems inherent in using meta-analysis to establish a causal relation.^9–14 The epidemiological data are subject to the limitations described above. They have not been collected in a standardised way, and some relative risks have been inappropriately combined. Because it is more likely that positive associations get published, unpublished negative results could reduce the summary relative risks. Also, the meta-analyses on coronary heart disease omitted the published negative results from the large American Cancer Society cancer prevention study (CPS I).^{10 11} We have extended the follow up for the California participants in this cohort, analysed the relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related diseases, and addressed concerns about this study.

Methods

CPS I is a prospective cohort study begun by the American Cancer Society in October 1959. ^15–17 Long term follow up was undertaken at the University of California at Los Angeles on all 118 094 participants from California (see bmj.com for details). ¹⁸ In mid-1999 we sent out a two page questionnaire on smoking and lifestyle. The follow up period was from time of entry to the study (1 January to 31 March 1960) until death, withdrawal (date last known alive), or end of follow up (31 December 1998). The participants were aged 30-96 years at enrolment.

The underlying cause of each death was assigned according to the international classification of diseases (seventh, eighth, or ninth revision). For the analysis of environmental tobacco smoke we selected the 35 561 participants who had never smoked as of 1959 and who had a spouse in the study with known smoking habits.

Statistical analysis
The independent variable used for analysis was exposure to environmental tobacco smoke based on smoking status of the spouse in 1959, 1965, and 1972. Never smokers married to current or former smokers were compared with never smokers married to never smokers. The never smokers were defined as those who had never smoked any form of tobacco by the time of assessment. Never smokers married to a current smoker were subdivided into categories according to the smoking status of their spouse: 1-9, 10-19, 20, 21-39, 40 cigarettes consumed per day for men and women, along with pipe or cigar usage for women. Former smokers were considered as an additional category.

We calculated the age adjusted relative risk of death and 95% confidence interval as a function of smoking status of the spouse by using Cox proportional hazards regression. ¹⁸ A fully adjusted relative risk was calculated by using a model that included age and seven potential confounders at baseline: race (white, non-white), education level (< 12, 12, > 12 years), exercise (none or slight, moderate, heavy), body mass index (< 20, 20-22.99, 23-25.99, 26-29.99, 30), urbanisation (five population sizes), fruit or fruit juice intake (0-2, 3-4, 5-7 days a week), and health status (good, fair, poor, sick).

Results

The personal and lifestyle characteristics and follow up status for 1959 never smokers were relatively independent of their spouse's smoking status (see bmj.com). Also, the baseline characteristics of the 1999 respondents in 1959 were similar to those for all participants in 1959, except for a younger age at enrolment. Although heavily censored by age, the 1999 respondents seemed reasonably representative of survivors. Race, education, exercise, height, weight, and fruit intake had also remained largely unchanged among the 1999 respondents since 1959. The proportion of participants who had withdrawn as of 1972, were lost as of 1999, or had an unknown cause of death was not related to the smoking status of spouses. However, widowhood (widowed as of 1999) increased substantially with increased smoking by the spouse.

Effects of exposure
Environmental tobacco smoke
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke was not significantly associated with the death rate for coronary heart disease, lung cancer, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in men or women (tables 1 and 2). The relative risks were slightly reduced after adjustment for seven confounders. The relative risks were consistent with 1.0 for virtually every level of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, current or former. Only the relative risks for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease suggested an association. An environmental tobacco smoke index based on seven or eight levels of smoking in a spouse gave a relative risk of about 1.0 for each level of change and no suggestion of a dose-response trend.

View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]   Table 1 Level of smoking in spouse and deaths from selected causes among male never smokers in California cancer prevention study (CPS I) cohort, as of 1959 and 1972. Relative risk (95% confidence interval) comparing individuals with each level of exposure to those without exposure. Proportional hazards linear models adjusted for age and for age and seven confounders. For reference, 1960-98 death rate in deaths per 1000 person years adjusted to 1960 US population for attained ages 35-84 is given18

 

View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]   Table 2 Level of smoking in spouse and deaths from selected causes among female never smokers in California cancer prevention study (CPS I) cohort, as of 1959 and 1972. For reference, 1960-98 death rate in deaths per 1000 person years adjusted to 1960 US population for attained ages 35-84 is given18

 

Active cigarette smoking

As expected there was a strong, positive dose-response relation between active cigarette smoking and deaths from coronary heart disease, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease during 1960-98 (see bmj.com). These relative risks were consistent with those for the full CPS I cohort followed until 1972. ^{15 17} As it is generally considered that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is roughly equivalent to smoking one cigarette per day, ⁴ we extrapolated the relative risk due to exposure to environmental tobacco smoke from the relative risks for smoking 1-9 cigarettes per day. These extrapolated relative risks were about 1.03 for coronary heart disease and about 1.20 for lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Based on these findings, exposure to environmental tobacco smoke could not plausibly cause a 30% increase in risk of coronary heart disease in this cohort, although a 20% increase in risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease could not be ruled out.

Discussion

Our findings are based on the California cohort from the large American Cancer Society cancer prevention study (CPS I), followed during 1960-98. Although participants in CPS I are not a representative sample of the US population, the never smokers in this cohort had a total death rate that was close to that of US white never smokers. ¹⁹ Furthermore, the relative risks were based on comparisons within the cohort and should be valid.

Strengths of study
CPS I has several important strengths: long established value as a prospective epidemiological study, large size, extensive baseline data on smoking and potential confounders, extensive follow up data, and excellent long term follow up. None of the other cohort studies on environmental tobacco smoke has more strengths, and none has presented as many detailed results (see bmj.com). Considering these strengths as a whole, the CPS I cohort is one of the most valuable samples for studying the relation between environmental tobacco smoke and mortality.

Concern has been expressed that smoking status in spouses in 1959 does not accurately reflect total exposure to environmental tobacco smoke because there was so much exposure to non-residential environmental tobacco smoke at that time. ⁶ The 1999 questionnaire showed that smoking status of spouses was directly related to a history of total exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. It also showed that the extent of misclassification of exposure was not sufficient to obscure a true association between environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease among women (see bmj.com).

Comparison with other studies
Our results for coronary heart disease and lung cancer are consistent with those of most of the other individual studies on environmental tobacco smoke, ^4–8 including the results for coronary heart disease and lung cancer in the full CPS I. ^{10 16} Moreover, when our results are included in a meta-analysis of all results for coronary heart disease, the summary relative risks for current and ever exposure to environmental tobacco smoke are reduced to about 1.05, indicating a weak relation.

Widowhood was strongly correlated with smoking status of spouses, owing to the reduced survival of smokers. Since widowers have higher death rates than married people, controlling for widowhood would be expected to reduce the relative risks in this and other studies of smoking in spouses. ^{20 21} The precise effect of widowhood due to smoking in spouses still needs to be determined, but it may partially explain the positive relative risks found in other cohorts.

Conclusion
The results of the California CPS I cohort do not support a causal relation between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect. Given the limitations of the underlying data in this and the other studies of environmental tobacco smoke and the small size of the risk, it seems premature to conclude that environmental tobacco smoke causes death from coronary heart disease and lung cancer.

What is already known on this topic Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is generally believed to increase the risk of coronary heart disease and lung cancer among never smokers by about 25% This increased risk, based primarily on meta-analysis, is still controversial due to methodological problems What this study adds In a large study of Californians followed for 40 years, environmental tobacco smoke was not associated with coronary heart disease or lung cancer mortality at any level of exposure These findings suggest that the effects of environmental tobacco smoke, particularly for coronary heart disease, are considerably smaller than generally believed Active cigarette smoking was confirmed as a strong, dose related risk factor for coronary heart disease, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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This is an abridged version; the full version is on bmj.com

Editorial by Davey Smith

We thank Lawrence Garfinkel and Clark W Heath Jr (former vice presidents for epidemiology and statistics, American Cancer Society) for facilitating the extended follow up of CPS I and for making helpful comments and suggestions and Saman Assefi and Parveen Sra for technical assistance.

Contributors: See bmj.com

Funding: The American Cancer Society initiated CPS I in 1959, conducted follow up until 1972, and has maintained the original database. Extended follow up until 1997 was conducted at the University of California at Los Angeles with initial support from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, a University of California research organisation funded by the Proposition 99 cigarette surtax (www.ucop.edu/srphome/trdrp). After continuing support from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program was denied, follow up through 1999 and data analysis were conducted at University of California at Los Angeles with support from the Center for Indoor Air Research, a 1988-99 research organisation that received funding primarily from US tobacco companies.²²

Competing interests: In recent years JEE has received funds originating from the tobacco industry for his tobacco related epidemiological research because it has been impossible for him to obtain equivalent funds from other sources. GCK never received funds originating from the tobacco industry until last year, when he conducted an epidemiological review for a law firm which has several tobacco companies as clients. He has served as a consultant to the University of California at Los Angeles for this paper. JEE and GCK have no other competing interests. They are both lifelong non-smokers whose primary interest is an accurate determination of the health effects of tobacco.

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Did non-smokers REALLY avoid

Simon Chapman
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Re: Re: Nothing new from the antismoking front

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bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

Whither epidemiologic reporting?

Gio B. Gori
bmj.com, 18 May 2003 [Full text]

Consistency - science for sale?

John R. Polito
bmj.com, 18 May 2003 [Full text]

Tobacco Toxicity

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bmj.com, 18 May 2003 [Full text]

BMJ-comic or respectable journal?

Raj Thakkar
bmj.com, 18 May 2003 [Full text]

WHAT THE HELL HAVE THESE PEOPLE BEEN SMOKIN'?

Errol E. POVAH
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

4 Questions, 2 comments

tOM Trottier, et al.
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

Another "competing interest" of James Enstrom

Robert S. Broughton
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

RESPONSE TO PAPER ON PASSIVE SMOKING

Christopher W IDE
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

Science as PR

Gene Borio
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

A "passive smoke" observation

Robert I. Rudolph, M.D., FACP
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

Remember "Frank Statement to Smokers"?

Joanne L. Addison
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

Bully for the BMJ

Bryce C. Peterson, M.D.
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

Six Key Issues

Ronald M. Davis
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

The bottom line

Andrew S Furber
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

What killer? Let’s call things with their name.

Gian L. Turci
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

environmental tobacco smoke paper requires further benefits from critical appraisal

Rosemary Fox, et al.
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

BMJ, Impact Factor and Irresponsible Journalism: A 'nasty' nexus?

Zubair Kabir
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

Adequacy of age-adjustment?

Eugene Milne
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

Response to Simon Chapman

Michael J Thun
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

Why The Double Standard?

Dave Hitt
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

Pots calling kettles black

GH Hall
bmj.com, 19 May 2003 [Full text]

SARS causes no harm

Jonathan P. Krueger
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

Reply to ASH - please be more careful in future

James A Delphi
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

Inverse effect can be explained

Wiel Maessen
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

Freedom

Crystal L Pherson
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

More details on competing interests

Martin McKee, et al.
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

A very interesting coincidence

ELIF DAGLI
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

Confirmation: Secondhand smoke does cause respiratory disease

Anthony J Hedley, et al.
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

Tobacco cartel wants to create a "controversy"

Joseph Cherner
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Adequacy of age-adjustment - a hypothesis

Eugene Milne
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

An American Cancer Society Perspective

Michael J. Thun
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

Defining a set of difficult issues

richard horton
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

Read peer review comments

Kamran Abbasi
bmj.com, 20 May 2003 [Full text]

The Correlation of Smoking and Deep Breathing

Bernard X. Bovasso, et al.
bmj.com, 21 May 2003 [Full text]

Reviewers' comments

Martin McKee
bmj.com, 21 May 2003 [Full text]

Apology Requested

William T Godshall
bmj.com, 21 May 2003 [Full text]

Jumping out of a 3rd storey window "may not kill" either...

Peter J Flegg
bmj.com, 21 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Read peer review comments

Kamran Abbasi
bmj.com, 21 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Defining a set of difficult issues

Zubair Kabir
bmj.com, 21 May 2003 [Full text]

Old habits new diseases?

Teresa Ramos
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Science as PR....Bravo, Gene!

Errol E. POVAH
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Inverse effect can be explained

Adam Jacobs
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

Why am I dying from lung cancer caused by second-hand smoke?

Heather S. Crowe
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

It's not always easy

James W Austin
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

Flawed Study on Passive Smoking

Michael J. Martin
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

PUT YOUR LUNGS WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS

Emanuel Goldman
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Why The Double Standard?

M. L. Herrin
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

"Serious misclassification of exposure"

Pascal A. Diethelm
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

Judging Research

freda lee nason
bmj.com, 22 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Six Key Issues

Emma L Dickinson
bmj.com, 23 May 2003 [Full text]

Lost Credibility

Christopher Lovelidge, et al.
bmj.com, 23 May 2003 [Full text]

Response to McKee and Diethelm

Geoffrey C Kabat
bmj.com, 23 May 2003 [Full text]

The 'overwhelming evidence' for the links between ETS and lung cancer and heart disease

Wiel M Maessen
bmj.com, 23 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Why am I dying from lung cancer caused by second-hand smoke?

Wiel Maessen
bmj.com, 23 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Judging Research

Nigel R Winterbottom
bmj.com, 23 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: Inverse effect can be explained

Wiel M Maessen
bmj.com, 23 May 2003 [Full text]

What are the tobacco manufacturers saying?

Andrew S Furber
bmj.com, 23 May 2003 [Full text]

Response to James Austin

Simon Chapman
bmj.com, 23 May 2003 [Full text]

Smoke: Cancer ingredients or not

George F Sedlacek
bmj.com, 24 May 2003 [Full text]

The Confounding Urban Factor

David W. Kuneman
bmj.com, 24 May 2003 [Full text]

Misleading the public about secondhand smoke ... Again

Lisa A Bero, et al.
bmj.com, 24 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Response to McKee and Diethelm

Malcolm X. McGarrity
bmj.com, 27 May 2003 [Full text]

Response to Simon Chapman

James W Austin
bmj.com, 25 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Misleading the public about secondhand smoke ... Again

B.J. Allen
bmj.com, 25 May 2003 [Full text]

Wrong conclusion

William Carey
bmj.com, 25 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Misleading the public about secondhand smoke ... Again

Wiel M Maessen
bmj.com, 27 May 2003 [Full text]

Do any of the "non-smokers" smoke?

John H. Glaser
bmj.com, 26 May 2003 [Full text]

Research Bias and Science

Michael J. McFadden
bmj.com, 26 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: An American Cancer Society Perspective

Daniel Forrest
bmj.com, 29 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Do any of the "non-smokers" smoke?

John H. Glaser
bmj.com, 29 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: Re: Inverse effect can be explained

Adam Jacobs
bmj.com, 29 May 2003 [Full text]

Re: Defining a set of difficult issues

Beverly A. HARRIS
bmj.com, 29 May 2003 [Full text]

Cohort bias in the analysis of Californian passive smoking

Eugene Milne
bmj.com, 29 May 2003 [Full text]

Why the study?

Joshua E. Muscat
bmj.com, 30 May 2003 [Full text]

Passive smoking: Why all the fuss?

Jeffrey J Johnstone
bmj.com, 30 May 2003 [Full text]

Environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer

Allan Hackshaw, et al.
bmj.com, 30 May 2003 [Full text]

CONTEXT & COMMON SENSE--or: "2nd-HAND POISON'S OK. REALLY!..."

Rick Bernardo
bmj.com, 30 May 2003 [Full text]

'Fac Ut Gaudeam' : By Dr Joseph Obi

Joseph .C. Obi
bmj.com, 1 Jun 2003 [Full text]

On the objectivism of science

Kurt J. Zuckermann
bmj.com, 2 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Re: On the objectivism of science

John H. Glaser
bmj.com, 3 Jun 2003 [Full text]

health as a confounding factor?

Elliot S Jerud
bmj.com, 3 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Anachronism

Matti A Keski-Korpela
bmj.com, 4 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Congratulations!

Ken S. Honbo
bmj.com, 5 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Article Response and Response to Comments

Scott J. Leischow
bmj.com, 5 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Lung Cancer Without Secondhand Smoke Exposure

Sheldon B. Ungar
bmj.com, 5 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Science: Talking the talk, or walking the walk?

Rick Bernardo
bmj.com, 10 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Editorial U-Turn on Secondhand Smoke "Controversy"?

Gene Gene
bmj.com, 11 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Re: Science: Talking the talk, or walking the walk?

Stuart Goldbarg
bmj.com, 12 Jun 2003 [Full text]

The anti-smokers lie about smoking and health

Carol AS Thompson
bmj.com, 12 Jun 2003 [Full text]

A final thought....

Michael J. McFadden
bmj.com, 16 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Publication in BMJ of Tobacco-funded "research"

Stan R Blecher
bmj.com, 20 Jun 2003 [Full text]

What do we learn from this research?

Ralf Krumkamp
bmj.com, 21 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Gori replies to Leishow about Enstrom, Kabat, and beyond

Gio B. Gori
bmj.com, 25 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Requesting Media Information from Interested Readers…

Sheldon Ungar, et al.
bmj.com, 25 Jun 2003 [Full text]

Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Disease: No Doubt Remains

Terry F. Pechacek, et al.
bmj.com, 10 Jul 2003 [Full text]

Tobacco : what about Belgium

Christophe De Brouwer, et al.
bmj.com, 11 Jul 2003 [Full text]

The Case of the Footnote Wagging the Article

Phillip S. Gardiner, et al.
bmj.com, 19 Aug 2003 [Full text]

Thank you

Mark W. Volovar
bmj.com, 9 Sep 2003 [Full text]

Second-Hand Smokescreen

Hugh McGrath Jr.
bmj.com, 16 Sep 2003 [Full text]

Family history?

yogi sehgal
bmj.com, 25 Sep 2003 [Full text]

Smoking and lung cancer: dose-response and combined exposure i.e. asbestos

John H. Lange
bmj.com, 29 Sep 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: Re: Inverse effect can be explained

Wiel Maessen
bmj.com, 30 Nov 2003 [Full text]

Public Health Advocacy and its Five Ps

Niyi Awofeso
bmj.com, 3 Dec 2003 [Full text]

A question...

C.A. Caldwell
bmj.com, 11 Dec 2003 [Full text]

Re: A question...

Adam Jacobs
bmj.com, 13 Dec 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: A question...

Pete Petrakis, Ph.D., M.P.H.
bmj.com, 14 Dec 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: Re: A question...

Adam Jacobs
bmj.com, 15 Dec 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: Re: Re: A question...

Pete Petrakis, Ph.D., M.P.H.
bmj.com, 16 Dec 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: Re: Re: A question...

C.A. Caldwell
bmj.com, 16 Dec 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A question...

Pete Petrakis, Ph.D., M.P.H.
bmj.com, 17 Dec 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A question...

C.A. Caldwell
bmj.com, 24 Dec 2003 [Full text]

Re: Re: Re: Re: A question...

Wiel M Maessen
bmj.com, 15 Jan 2004 [Full text]

Re. Re. Re. Re.....

Gio B. Gori
bmj.com, 21 Jan 2004 [Full text]

Re: Why am I dying from lung cancer caused by second-hand smoke?

lynda duguay
bmj.com, 3 Jul 2004 [Full text]

A Sociological Study of the Responses to Enstrom & Kabat

Sheldon B. Ungar, et al.
bmj.com, 17 Dec 2004 [Full text]

Environmental tobacco smoke: formulating public health policy for environmental carcinogens

Morris Greenberg
bmj.com, 30 Aug 2005 [Full text]

Re: Six Key Issues

Belinda Cunnison
bmj.com, 5 Dec 2005 [Full text]

Updated Meta-Analysis on ETS and CHD Mortality in the US

James E Enstrom, et al.
bmj.com, 24 Jan 2006 [Full text]

Enstrom & Kabat's Exposure Assessment Flawed

James L. Repace
bmj.com, 25 Jan 2006 [Full text]

Re: Enstrom & Kabat's Exposure Assessment Flawed

Walt Cody
bmj.com, 18 Mar 2006 [Full text]

Professor Sir Richard Peto and the House of Lords

James E Enstrom
bmj.com, 26 Aug 2006 [Full text]

Is the goal of TC to reduce mortality, or to protect the consensus view

Kevin M. Mulvina
bmj.com, 15 Aug 2006 [Full text]

Defending Legitimate Epidemiologic Research

James E. Enstrom
bmj.com, 27 Sep 2006 [Full text]

Risk and Cotinine: A reply to Mr. Cody

James L. Repace
bmj.com, 29 Sep 2006 [Full text]

Re: Risk and Cotinine: A reply to Mr. Cody

Kevin Mulvina
bmj.com, 24 Nov 2006 [Full text]

General response

David C Atherton
bmj.com, 27 May 2007 [Full text]

Combating Lysenko Pseudoscience

James E Enstrom, et al.
bmj.com, 16 Oct 2007 [Full text]

Re: Combating Lysenko Pseudoscience

Kamal Chaouachi
bmj.com, 27 Oct 2007 [Full text]

Let Us Ban Smoking Bans

kerry p. labat junior
bmj.com, 22 Nov 2007 [Full text]

The real threat to epidemiology's integrity

William L Holden
bmj.com, 19 Jan 2008 [Full text]

The 3,000 claim

thomas r knapp
bmj.com, 6 Feb 2008 [Full text]

A clear response from an insider

Richard A. Marden
bmj.com, 7 Feb 2008 [Full text]

Forthcoming book on health risks

Geoffrey Kabat
bmj.com, 4 Jun 2008 [Full text]

Re: Give them enough rope

Kenneth O. Garrett, et al.
bmj.com, 2 Jan 2009 [Full text]

Re: The Correlation of Smoking and Deep Breathing

Kenneth O. Garrett, et al.
bmj.com, 25 Feb 2009 [Full text]

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