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Appendix C: Adjusments to Epidemiologic Estimates of Excess Lung Cancer in Persons Exposed to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Pages 289-293

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From page 289...
... ~ this section we combine information from several sources to generate crude estimates of the relative risk to nonsmokers as a consequence of chronic exposure to ETS. The computations reported here are highly simplified and should be looked on as providing only a first approach to risk evaluation.
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From page 290...
... ETS-exDosed nonsmokers, and regular smokers, respectively. Several assumptions need to be made to permit the use of these data before any quantitative risk computation can be made: __, ~r~~~~ Current smoking patterns reflect past patterns.
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From page 291...
... which, from Chapter 12, is 1.34, the relative risk estimated from the epidemiologic studies. From the studies that measured cotinine in "exposed" and ~unexposed" persons, we assume that the operative dose level, iE, among "exposed" individuals is 3 ties as high ~ the dose level in the sel£reported "unexposed persons, do, and that the ratio of 3:1 is proportional to a lifetime dose difference.
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From page 292...
... ,., (5) where pi is the proportion of people who call themselves "exposed," RRt is the relative risk of self-reported "exposers persons, and RR2 is the relative risk of sel£reported "unexposed persons.
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From page 293...
... Salloyee. Biochemical markers of smoke absorption and self reported exposure to passive smoking.
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