Mortality associated with passive smoking in Hong Kong
Open Access
- 27 January 2005
- Vol. 330 (7486) , 287-288
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38342.706748.47
Abstract
Details of the sample selection and data collection have been reported.2 Each person who reported a death in 1998 at four death registries was given a questionnaire which asked about the lifestyle 10 years earlier of the decedent and of a living person about the same age who was well known to the informant. Passive smoking was identified in the interview with the question, “Ten years ago, in about 1988, excluding the decedent/control, how many persons who lived with the decedent/control smoked?” Decedents or controls who lived with one or more smokers were classed as exposed. Cause of death was obtained from the death certificate.Keywords
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