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All in a puff over passive smoking

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Anti-anti-smoking study provokes furore among researchers.

Public-health experts are up in arms over a controversial new study claiming that passive smoking may not be a killer.

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  1. Enstrom, J. E. & Kabat, G. C. Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98. . British Medical Journal, 326, 1057 - 1061, (2003).

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Pearson, H. All in a puff over passive smoking. Nature (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/news030512-15

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