Mortality associated with passive smoking in Hong Kong

doi:10.1136/bmj.38342.706748.47

BMJ 2005;330:287-288 (5 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.38342.706748.47 (published 27 January 2005)

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Mortality associated with passive smoking in Hong Kong

S M McGhee, associate professor¹, S Y Ho, research assistant professor¹, M Schooling, research associate¹, L M Ho, senior computer manager¹, G N Thomas, research assistant professor¹, A J Hedley, chair professor¹, K H Mak, consultant, community medicine², R Peto, professor of medical statistics and epidemiology³, T H Lam, chair professor and head of department¹

¹ Department of Community Medicine, University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China, ² Department of Health, Student Health Service, 4/F Lam Tin Polyclinic, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, ³ Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HE

Correspondence to: T H Lam hrmrlth@hkucc.hku.hk

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Introduction

Passive smoking can cause death from lung cancer and coronaryheart disease, but there is little evidence for associationswith other causes of death in never smokers. A recent studyshowed increased all cause mortality with exposure to secondhandsmoke at home but did not examine associations with specificcauses of death and dose-response relations.¹ We have publishedestimates of the mortality attributable to active smoking inHong Kong² and now present the related findings on passive smokingat home.

Participants, methods, and results

Details of the sample selection and data collection have beenreported.² Each person who reported a death in 1998 at fourdeath registries was given a questionnaire which asked aboutthe lifestyle 10 years earlier of the decedent and of a livingperson about the same age who was well known to the informant.Passive smoking was identified in the interview with the question,"Ten years ago, in about 1988, . . . [Full text of this article]

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