Passive_Smoking

Passive Smoking Passive smoking and how it relates to cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a widely debated topic. Many studies that discuss this topic address the specific issue of how passive smoking affects the development of CVD among the non-smoking relatives of smokers. The researchers who have studied the relationship of passive smoking and the risk of CVD in the non-smoking relatives of smokers, mostly differ in their interpretation of the results. As will be discussed in the following, there is strong evidence to suggest a correlation between passive smoking and the development of CVD in the non-smoking relatives of smokers. However, the exact statistics of this correlation differ from study to study. Some studies suggest a substantial correlation and propose that passive smoking is a likely causal factor of CVD in the non-smoking relatives of smokers (He, Lam, Li, Li, Du, Jia, Huang & Zheng, 1994). Other studies find that there is a minimal correlation and that there is no statistical significance to the hypothesis that passive smoking leads to increased risk of CVD in the non-smoking relatives of smokers (Iso, Shimamoto, Sato, Koike, Iida & Komachi, 1996). It has been suggested that increased risk of CVD due to smoking, passive, cvd, study, risk, women, results, smokers, relatives, exposure, studies, factors, increased, smoke, non-smoking, correlation, parmley, glanz, exposed, due, authors, however, health, et, al, increase, between, therefore, methodology, men, low, levels, include, bias, been