Environmental tobacco smoke has many of the same negative health consequences for women who chose not to smoke as smoking has on woman smokers.
In 1991, 37% of non-tobacco users reported having lived in a home with at least one smoker or being exposed to environmental tobacco smoke at work.
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a cause of lung cancer among women who have never smoked.
Epidemiologic and other data support a causal relationship between environmental tobacco smoke exposure from one's spouse and coronary heart disease mortality among women nonsmokers.
Source: Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General—2001 |
