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Deaths caused by secondhand smoke: estimates are consistent

¹ School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
² Medical Research Council Laboratories, The Gambia
³ Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand

Correspondence to:
Professor Alistair Woodward
a.woodward@auckland.ac.nz

Keywords: secondhand smoke; attributable mortality

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Deaths caused by secondhand smoke: estimates are consistent
In 2001 Woodward and Laugesen estimated the number of deaths caused by secondhand cigarette smoke in New Zealand, using an indirect method based on studies of disease specific mortality risks.¹ Most of the relative risks used in this estimation were taken from studies conducted in other countries. We now have an opportunity to check the accuracy of this estimate using a more direct method based on all cause mortality risks taken from a recent New Zealand study.²

Hill et al compared mortality among New Zealand never smokers living with cigarette smokers with that of never smokers in non-smoking households.² They report adjusted mortality rate ratios for 45–74 year olds from two periods: 1981–4 and 1996–9. For men the ratios were 1.17 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.05 to 1.30) and 1.16 (95% CI 1.04 to 1.30) respectively; for women 1.06 (95% CI 0.97 to 1.16) and 1.28 (95% CI 1.16 to . . . [Full text of this article]

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