Smoking, Air Pollution and Emphysema/COPD in Six US Cities 2000-2018: Contextualizing Statistical Association in Health Communication

Wayne Gao; Mattia Sanna; Chi Pang Wen

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Version 1 : Received: 8 October 2019 / Approved: 10 October 2019 / Online: 10 October 2019 (04:47:10 CEST)

A recent study found that a 3ppb increase in O₃ ambient concentration was associated with an increased progression of 0.18 percentage points in percent emphysema and that such increase was equal to smoking 20 cigarettes per day for 29 years. A simple estimation of population attributable fraction shows that COPD diagnoses due to smoking are actually 30 times more than those attributed to a 3 ppb increment in O₃ concentration. Labelling ozone pollution as the new smoking may distort perception of the risks and hinder proper response to real life threatening risk such as smoking.

smoking; air pollution; health communication; population attributable fraction; copd; emphysema; relative risks

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Pollution

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Smoking, Air Pollution and Emphysema/COPD in Six US Cities 2000-2018: Contextualizing Statistical Association in Health Communication

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