Japanese spousal smoking study revisited: how a tobacco industry funded paper reached erroneous conclusions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To provide a participant's account of the development of a paper commissioned by the tobacco industry examining the reliability of self reported smoking status; to redress the distorted report of this Japanese spousal smoking study which evaluated the reliability and validity of self reported smoking status, and estimated confounding by diet and lifestyle factors.

Design

Repeated interviews on smoking status and its verification by environmental and biological markers for environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure.

Setting

Urban wives in Osaka City and Sizuoka City, Japan

Participants

Semi-random sampling of 200 wives in each city. From the Osaka subjects, 100 non-smoking wives were selected for the validity study.

Main outcome measures

Kappa

SUBMITTER: Yano E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1748079 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature