05-12-2006, 10:59 AM
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Passive smoking, of course, is caused by people who smoke, so, more incentive to quit:
...Bibbins-Domingo estimated that, depending on the level of exposure, passive smoking is responsible for between 9,500 and 21,500 coronary heart disease-related deaths annually and between 14,600 and 32,400 heart attacks annually. The lower estimate is based on self-reports of exposure; the higher estimate is based on measurements of cotinine levels in the blood.
If passive smoking were eliminated now, by the year 2030 as many as 953,200 new cases of coronary heart disease would be prevented, averting 842,900 heart attacks and 580,600 heart disease-related deaths, she predicted...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/05/11...eut/index.html
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