Environmental Tobacco Smoke
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Tobacco smoking has long been recognized as a major cause of death and
disease, responsible for an estimated 434,000 deaths per year in the United
States. After the Environmental Protection Agency and the Surgeon General
stated that cigarettes cause lung cancer there was a tremendous movement to m ....
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.... Researchers studied 1,906 women
of which 653 developed lung cancer. Women married to smokers were thirty
percent more likely to develop lung cancer than those married to non-smokers
(LeMaistre 1). According to the Environmental Protection Agency a thirty
percent risk is only a small relative risk. The Environmental Protection Agency
released its report stating that environmental tobacco smoke is a human lung
carcinogen, responsible for approximately three thousand lung cancer deaths
ann ....
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