Passive Smoking Causes Asthma
Research has well-documented results showing how secondhand smoke causes asthma in children. Now a study of 718 people in Finland shows that adults, too, are more likely to develop asthma when exposed to secondhand smoke. The research was announced in September, 2001 at the 11th European Congress on Lung Disease and Respiratory Medicine. A German study presented there linked passive smoking to lung cancer in women who had never smoked. An Italian study found that women were more likely to be exposed to passive smoking than men. |
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