Other people’s smoke: what’s in a name?: Table 1

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Opinions differ over what term should be used to describe “other people’s smoke” The editors at Tobacco Control are sometimes asked by authors for our policy on the nomenclature that should be used when referring to “other people’s smoke”. To date, the journal has not had a policy of standardising a preferred term, as is the case throughout the research literature (table 1). View this table: Table 1 Frequency of use of various terms for “other people’s smoke” Some in our field are passionate about one term over another, and believe that it is important that use be standardised. So what are the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates? ### Passive smoking The industry was privately referring to “passive smoke exposure” from as far back as 1962,1 and “passive smoking” appears to have been first used in the title of a scientific paper in 1970 in a German journal, where the expression was considered so strange as to warrant being placed in inverted commas.2 By 1972, the term began to be used without being highlighted.3 It was first used in an English language journal …

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