iversity of California at San Diego discovered that the death rate of the wives of smokers from heart disease was two-and-a-half times greater than that of the wives of nonsmokers. This risk increased when risk factors such as blood pressure and cholesterol were ruled out (Science News 312). Those two studies were among the first important studies which pointed out that those who were forced to live with smokers faced greater health risks than the rest of the nonsmoking population.
Moreover, studies which were aimed at tracking the effect of smoking on smokers also inadvertently began to discover the effects of passive smoke on nonsmokers. One study was directed at measuring the risk of developing cervical cancer by women who smoked. This study revealed two important facts. First, the study revealed that female smokers were three times as likely to develop this cancer as nonsmokers. Second, the study found that women who inhaled passive smoke for at least three hours every day were also three times as likely
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