Passive smoking in the home: plasma cotinine concentrations in non-smokers with smoking partners.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Risks of lung cancer and of heart disease attributable to passive smoking have been evaluated mainly in non-smokers married to smokers, but there has been little quantitative assessment of the extent of exposure in marriage partners as indicated by markers of inhaled smoke dose.

Objective

To relate plasma cotinine concentrations in non-smoking English adults to the smoking behaviour of their partners and to demographic and other factors.

Data

Population survey. Data from two years (1994 and 1996) of the Health Survey for England.

Main outcome measures

Plasma cotinine concentrations in non-smoking adults married to or cohabiting with a partner.

Results

There was a strong dose-response relation between cotinine concentrations in non-smoking adul

SUBMITTER: Jarvis MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1747624 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature