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Comment on "Passive Smoking and Tuberculosis"

Neal L. Benowitz, MD

Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(3):292-293.

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Secondhand smoke is a major cause of disease, including lung cancer and coronary heart disease in adults and lower respiratory illness, middle ear disease, and asthma in children. Because the prevalence of smoking is much higher in men than in women, secondhand smoke disproportionately harms women. The scope of harm to women caused by secondhand smoke is both illustrated and widened by this study by Leung and coworkers. The investigators studied never-smoking married women in China, a country where 60% of men smoke compared with only 4% of women. They found that women who were exposed to secondhand smoke in the home were significantly more likely to develop tuberculosis (TB) than women who were not exposed.

The strengths of Leung and coauthors' study are that it included a large cohort of generally healthy women aged 65 to 74 years on entry into the study along with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Author Affiliation: Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of California, San Francisco.

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