Labour Research (February 2004)

Health & Safety Matters

Passive smoking

The greater your exposure to passive smoking at work, the higher your risk of lung cancer, a major study published in the International Journal of Cancer has found.

Researchers found that those exposed to smoke in the workplace had an increased lung cancer risk of 13%. For those exposed for more than 21 years, the risk jumped to 25%.


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