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EDITORIAL
Nomenclature
Other people’s smoke: what’s in a name?
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Correspondence to:
Professor Simon Chapman, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Edward Ford Building A27, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia;
simonc@health.usyd.edu.au
Opinions differ over what term should be used to describe "other people’s smoke"
Keywords: passive smoking; environmental tobacco smoke; second hand smoke; involuntary smoking; tobacco smoke pollution
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The editors at Tobacco Control are sometimes asked by authors for our policy on the nomenclature that should be used when referring to "other people’s smoke". To date, the journal has not had a policy of standardising a preferred term, as is the case throughout the research literature (table 1
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Some in our field are passionate about one term over another, and believe that it is important that use be standardised. So what are the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates?
The industry was privately referring to "passive smoke exposure" from as far back as 1962,1 and "passive smoking" appears to have been first used in the title of a scientific paper in 1970 in a German journal, where the expression was considered so strange as to warrant being placed in inverted commas.2 By 1972, the term began
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