The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7306 p9
3 July 2004

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Effects of passive smoking may have been underestimated in the past, say researchers. They calculate that non-smokers exposed to smoke (as assessed by serum cotinine concentrations) could be up to 60 per cent more likely to suffer major coronary heart disease than those not exposed to second-hand smoke (published on BMJ Online First 30 June 2004).