Technical Report No. 7-85
Passive smoking and lung cancer among women in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Fujita M, Satoh C, Asakawa J, Nagahata Y, Tanaka Y, Hazama R, Krasteff TEditor’s note: A publication based on this report was published in Cancer Res 46:4804-7, 1986.
Summary
A case-control study which involved interviews of 428 lung cancer cases and 957 controls conducted in Hiroshima and Nagasaki revealed a 50% increased risk of lung cancer among nonsmoking women whose husbands smoked. The risks tended to increase with the amount smoked by the husband, being highest among women who worked outside the home and whose husbands were heavy smokers and to decrease with cessation of exposure. The findings provide incentive for further evaluation of the relationship between passive smoking and cancer among nonsmokers, adopting a more precise measurement of passive smoking rather than the questionnaire method which was used in this study.
A case-control study which involved interviews of 428 lung cancer cases and 957 controls conducted in Hiroshima and Nagasaki revealed a 50% increased risk of lung cancer among nonsmoking women whose husbands smoked. The risks tended to increase with the amount smoked by the husband, being highest among women who worked outside the home and whose husbands were heavy smokers and to decrease with cessation of exposure. The findings provide incentive for further evaluation of the relationship between passive smoking and cancer among nonsmokers, adopting a more precise measurement of passive smoking rather than the questionnaire method which was used in this study.