## Abstract Fifty‐one women with lung cancer and 163 other hospital patients were interviewed regarding the smoking habits of themselves and their husbands. Forty of the lung cancer cases and 149 of the other patients were non‐smokers. Among the non‐smoking women there was a statistically significa
Lung cancer due to passive smoking – a review
✍ Scribed by F. Adlkofer
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Volume
- 74
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-0131
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