Abstract
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) contains a number of human carcinogens to which passive smokers are exposed. The pronounced effects observed among smokers who are exposed to the same agents at higher doses indicate that cancer risks deserve attention also in non-smokers exposed to ETS. Indeed, since the publication in 1981 of the first reports on increased lung cancer risks in nonsmokers married to smokers, there has been a growing interest in the health effects of ETS, both in the scientific community and among the general public. Although cancer induction is probably not the most important effect of ETS from a public health point of view, there is no doubt that the possibility of such effects has had a great impact on the attitudes towards passive smoking and has constituted an incentive for measures to restrict the exposure.
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Pershagen, G. (1989). Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Cancer. In: Mohr, U., Bates, D.V., Dungworth, D.L., Lee, P.N., McClellan, R.O., Roe, F.J.C. (eds) Assessment of Inhalation Hazards. ILSI Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74606-2_25
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