EDITORIAL
Passive smoking and asthma exacerbation
Passive smoking and asthma exacerbation
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor J Britton
University of Notttingham, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; j.britton@virgin.net
Further evidence to advance the public, political, and legal process towards effective public protection from the effects of passive and active smoking
Keywords: passive smoking; tobacco smoke; asthma; air pollution; epidemiology
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Cigarette smoke is a toxic mixture containing around 4000 different chemicals including a range of carcinogens, irritants, and toxins.1 It is therefore no surprise that inhaling cigarette smoke, either actively as a cigarette smoker or passively through exposure to exhaled and sidestream smoke from other smokers, is bad for health.1 In fact, active smoking kills more people in economically developed countries than any other preventable cause, and currently accounts for over 100 000 deaths (or about 20% of all deaths) each year in the UK.2 Worldwide the annual death total is currently close to 5 million.3 Passive smoking is also a major problem, causing at least 12 000 deaths each year in the UK,4 or about 2% of the current annual total, and probably a similar proportion in other developed countries. On these figures alone it should be clear that we have sufficient evidence to
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