title: [Health risk from active and passive smoking].
abstract: This study reviews and updates the health risks of cigarette smoking, based on the studies conducted in European countries, stressing cigarette smoking at the workplace. A review is made of the risks for both sexes, the impact on life expectancy, the advantages of quitting smoking, the social pattern of cigarette smoking in Western societies and the social differences in the diseases caused thereby. A description is also provided of the immediate and long-range effects of passive smoking, the consequences of passive smoking at the workplace and the methods for measuring Environmental Tobacco Smoke.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Médica, Condado de Ringkoebing, Dinamarca.
authors.forename: Finn Edler
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: von Eyben
authors.forename: Grieto
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zeeman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods; D012923:Social Class; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution
vernacular_title: Riesgos para la salud derivados del consumo voluntario e involuntario de tabaco.