Category: Breast Cancer

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Addictions/Substance Abuse/Tobacco/Secondhand Smoke/Health Risks/Breast Cancer

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• Ask the Expert: Breast Cancer and Secondhand Smoke   [rate it] [review it]
  Summarizes the research findings on tobacco smoke as a cause of breast cancer.

• Breast Cancer, Breast Feeding, and Tobacco Smoke   [rate it] [review it]
  Early studies treated secondhand smokers as if they were nonsmokers, which actually masked the evidence; later studies separated out the two, and found that both active and passive smoking are causes of breast cancer.

• Health Canada - Breast cancer linked to second-hand smoke   [rate it] [review it]
  Summary of recent research based on data from 1994-1997.

• Is There An Association Between Passive Smoking and Breast Cancer?   [rate it] [review it]
  Scientific article; meta-analysis of 11 studies estimates a 40% higher risk of breast cancer as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke.

• Secondhand Smoke -- Dr. Greene.com   [rate it] [review it]
  Report on 1996 study: "the relative risk for breast cancer from passive smoke (primarily girls whose parent smoked or women whose spouse smoked) was 3.2! This makes passive smoking a more important risk factor than having a mother with breast cancer (2.1), or having an early first period (1.3), or having a late first pregnancy (1.4)."