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Secondhand smoke killing nonsmoking wives
Respiratory Care Weekly, September 6, 2006
A survey of 72,000 nonsmoking women in China who are married to smokers shows that secondhand smoke in that country increases a nonsmoking spouse's odds of coronary heart disease and lung cancer by 15%-25%.
A high proportion of women-83.1%-said they were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke from their husbands, at work, in early life, or a combination of these, according to the August 16 British Medical Journal. Exposure to tobacco smoke from husbands was associated with a moderately increased risk of death from all causes and more strongly with increased mortality due to cardiovascular disease and stroke.
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