passive smoking
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As one meta-analysis of research data found in 1998, "the only factor associated with concluding that passive smoking is not harmful was whether an author was affiliated with the tobacco industry."
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2021
“No clear link between passive smoking and lung cancer,” read a 2013 headline in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, hardly a pro-tobacco publication.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2017
No study has ever produced such a result.Many experts argue that passive smoking is also responsible for cardiovascular disease and other asthma attacks.
From Time • Jun. 3, 2013
Says "It's on the same order of magnitude as passive smoking," an official with the World Health Organization's cancer agency says.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2012
The children in Mr Cunningham's constituency are, like many across the country, at high risk from the dangers of passive smoking, with Stockton North ranking fifteenth in the UK according to British Lung Foundation research.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2011
