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A Preliminary Risk Analysis Of Environmental Tobacco Smoke And Lung Cancer Using A Cohort Of Mormons In New Haven County, Albert Abdul-Barr Wang May 2001

A Preliminary Risk Analysis Of Environmental Tobacco Smoke And Lung Cancer Using A Cohort Of Mormons In New Haven County, Albert Abdul-Barr Wang

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Environmental tobacco smoke exposure has been recognized as an important source of lung cancer morbidity and mortality. Measuring environmental tobacco smoke exposure for risk analysis depends much on the methodologies for determining ETS levels of nicotine and RSP.

The author decided to measure the linear multistage dose-response curve relating the level of ETS exposure to the lung cancer incidence. The research was conducted using human time-activity patterns and microenvironmental ETS measurements through a self-designed questionnaire. A cohort of New Haven Mormons was selected for a low-dose group and the subjects from the NHAPS study were utilized for the high-dose group. …