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====B. Health risks of work exposure==== | ====B. Health risks of work exposure==== | ||
− | The health risks of working in a smoking environment for most people were best outlined in the EPA Report of 1992. The EPA concluded, correctly, that the putative risks in terms of heart disease were not well-based enough to state a real concern about workplace exposure. More research has taken place in the last 20 years of course, but the heart disease link has remained less strongly supported than the link to lung cancer | + | The health risks of working in a smoking environment for most people were best outlined in the EPA Report of 1992. The EPA concluded, correctly, that the putative risks in terms of heart disease were not well-based enough to state a real concern about workplace exposure. More research has taken place in the last 20 years of course, but the heart disease link has remained less strongly supported than the link to lung cancer -- a link the EPA estimated to offer a relative risk of 1.19 over the course of a 40 year work exposure, and which translates, assuming a base nonsmoking lifetime risk of about .5%, into a lifetime increased risk of 1 in a thousand. |
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