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The University of New
Mexico Health Sciences Center, Department of Internal Medicine,
Division of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 900 Camino de Salud,
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
Correspondence to: Dr D B Coultas.
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Introduction |
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The number of published studies on passive smoking as a risk
factor for adult onset asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) is small compared with the number on the adverse health effects
of passive smoking on childhood respiratory symptoms and diseases. The
paucity of research among adults may partly be due to a number of
factors that make it difficult to design studies of these non-malignant
respiratory diseases. The potential for misclassification of smoking
status, with former or current smokers categorised as passive smokers,
has been a longstanding concern in studies that rely on self reports of
past smoking habits. Measuring past passive smoke exposure presents a
major challenge in studies of chronic diseases that may become
clinically apparent only after 20 or more years of exposure.
Over-reporting of symptoms that subjects attribute to passive smoking
is increasingly likely as public awareness of passive smoking
increases. Also, it is difficult
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