HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS REGISTER		Author Keyword(s) Vol Page [Advanced]

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Submit a response Alert me when this article is cited Alert me when eLetters are posted Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this link to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Add article to my folders Download to citation manager Request Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Jamrozik, K Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Jamrozik, K Related Collections Smoking Health effects of tobacco use Environmental tobacco smoke

Slaying myths about passive smoking

Correspondence to:
Professor Konrad Jamrozik
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Queensland 4006, Australia; k.jamrozik@sph.uq.edu.au

Keywords: passive smoking

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

It is over 30 years since the appearance of the first English language reports indicating that passive smoking is harmful to the respiratory health of infants and children,^1,2 and almost a quarter of a century has elapsed since publication of the first two papers pointing to an increased risk of lung cancer in non-smoking adults who live with smokers.^3,4 The first of these events passed without much discussion but, by the time the second occurred, the tobacco companies were ready with a strategy to oppose what they had been advised was "the most dangerous development yet to the viability of the tobacco industry that has yet occurred".⁵ That strategy went beyond disputing the science to "playing the man"; Hirayama’s credentials as a scientist were called into question. Fully nine years later, he was spirited away from the 7th World Conference on Tobacco and Health in Perth, Western Australia, . . . [Full text of this article]

This article has been cited by other articles:

				J. W. Cherrie, M. Van Tongeren, and S. Semple Exposure to Occupational Carcinogens in Great Britain Ann. Hyg., November 1, 2007; 51(8): 653 - 664. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]