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EPA's REPORT ON PASSIVE SMOKING: MAJOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES

Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders, EPA/600/6-90/006F. The report is dated "December 1992" and was publicly released on January 6, 1993. [OFFICIAL TEXT REPRINTED BELOW]

MAJOR EDIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES

AKIBA, S. et al.; (1986) Passive smoking and lung cancer among Japanese women. Cancer Res. 46:4804-4807.

BROWNSON, R.C. et al.; (1987) Risk factors for adenocarcinoma of the lung. Am. J. Epidemiol. 125:25-34.

BUFFLER, P.A. et al.; (1984) The causes of lung cancer in Texas. In: Mizell, M.; Correa, P., eds. Lung cancer: causes and prevention. New York: Verlag Chemie International, pp. 83-99.

CHAN, W.C. et al.; (1982) Lung cancer in nonsmokers in Hong Kong. In: Grundmann, E., ed. Cancer campaign, v. 6, cancer epidemiology. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, pp. 199-202.

CORREA, P. et al.; (1983) Passive smoking and lung cancer. Lancet 2:595-597.

FONTHAM, E.T.H. et al.; (1991, November) Lung cancer in nonsmoking women: a multicenter case-control study. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 1(1):35-334.

GAO, Y. et al.; (1987) Lung cancer among Chinese women. Int. J. Cancer 40:604-609. GARFINKEL, L. et al.; (1985) Involuntary smoking and lung cancer: a case-control study. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 75:463-469.

GENG, G. et al.; (1988) On the relationship between smoking and female lung cancer. In: Smoking and health. Elsevier Science Publishers, pp. 483-486.

HUMBLE, C.G. et al.; (1987) Marriage to a smoker and lung cancer risk. Am. J. Public Health 77:598-602.

INOUE, R. et al.; (1988) Passive smoking and lung cancer in women. In: Smoking and health. Elsevier Sci. Pubs, pp. 283-285.

JANERICH, D.T. et al.; (1990) Lung cancer and exposure to tobacco smoke in the household. N. Engl. J. Med. 323:632-636.

KABAT, G.C. et al.; (1984) Lung cancer in nonsmokers. Cancer 53:1214-1221.

KALANDIDI, A. et al.; (1990) Passive smoking and diet in the etiology of lung cancer among nonsmokers. Cancer Causes Control 1:15-21.

KATADA, H. et al.; (1988) Effect of passive smoking in lung cancer development in women in the Nara region. Gan No Rinsho 34(1):21-27.

KOO, L.C., Ho, J.H. et al.; (1987) Measurements of passive smoking and estimates of lung cancer risk among nonsmoking Chinese females. Int. J. Cancer 39:162-169.

LAM, W.K. (1985) A clinical and epidemiological study of carcinoma of lung in Hong Kong [doctoral thesis]. U. Hong Kong.

LEE, P.N. (1986) Does breathing other people's tobacco smoke cause lung cancer? [Letter] Br. Med. J. 293:1503-1504.

LIU, Z. et al.; (1991) Smoking and other risk factors for lung cancer in Xuanwei, China. Int. J. Epidemiol. 20:26-31.

PERSHAGEN, G. et al.; (1987) Passive smoking and lung cancer in Swedish women. Am. J. Epidemiol. 125(1):17-24.

SHIMIZU, H. et al.; (1988) A case-control study of lung cancer in nonsmoking women. Tohoku J. Exp. Med. 154:389-397.

SOBUE, T. (1990) Passive smoking among nonsmoking women and the relationship between indoor air pollution and lung cancer incidence--results of a multicenter case controlled study. Gan To Rinsho 36(3):329-333.

SVENSSON, D. et al. (1988) Lung cancer etiology in women [dissertation]. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

TRICHOPOULOS, D. et al.; (1983) Lung cancer and passive smok- ing: conclusion of Greek study. [Letter] Lancet 667-668.

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BUTLER, T.L. (1988) The relationship of passive smoking to various health outcomes among Seventh-Day Adventists in California [dissertation]. U. of California at Los Angeles.

GARFINKEL, L. (1981) Time trends in lung cancer mortality among nonsmokers and a note on passive smoking. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 6:1061-1066.

HIRAYAMA, T. (1984) Cancer mortality in nonsmoking women with smoking husbands based on a large-scale cohort study in Japan. Prev. Med. 13:680-690.

HOLE, D.J. (1989) Passive smoking and cardiorespiratory health in a general population in the west of Scotland. Br. Med. J. 299:423-427.