Mortality among "never smokers" living with smokers: two cohort studies, 1981-4 and 1996-9

doi:10.1136/bmj.38070.503009.EE

BMJ 2004;328:988-989 (24 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.38070.503009.EE (published 5 April 2004)

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Mortality among "never smokers" living with smokers: two cohort studies, 1981-4 and 1996-9

Sarah Hill, public health medicine registrar¹, Tony Blakely, senior research fellow¹, Ichiro Kawachi, professor of social epidemiology², Alistair Woodward, professor of public health¹

¹ Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand, ² Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Correspondence to: T A Blakely tblakely@wnmeds.ac.nz

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Introduction

Few studies have examined the association between passive smokingand all cause mortality; most of these have had limited studypower.^1-4 We present results from two population cohorts ofadults who had never smoked ("never smokers"), followed forthree year mortality according to household exposure to secondhandsmoke.

Participants, methods, and results

The two cohorts comprised all New Zealand adults aged 45-74years who responded to the 1981 and 1996 censuses and who identifiedthemselves as never smokers, lived in a private dwelling (thatis, not a prison, hospital, or other institution), and had provideddata on smoking status for all household members aged 15 andover (87.0% of never smokers in 1981 and 85.3% in 1996).

Never smokers living in households with one or more currentsmokers were regarded as being exposed to secondhand smoke inthe home; those living in households with no current smokerswere regarded as not exposed. Cohort members . . . [Full text of this article]

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