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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Can you spell out that increase in lung cancer in solid numbers, say, how many more times out of 100,000 you're likely to get lung cancer than a person not exposed to 2d hand smoke? "Increased" is the sort of word that begs greater explanation.
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No. You are fully capable of clicking the surgeon general report and reading it for yourself. (hint: go to chapter seven http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/librar...t/chapter7.pdf) And the way that the studies are usually weighed, it's in terms of your increased risk compared to the control population. So a non-smoker in Japan who lives with a smoker has a 1.9 increased chance of getting lung cancer than she would have had she not lived with the smoker, that risk is readjusted to 1.3 when other factors (such as diet) are taken into account.
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