Correa教授及其同事最近在[Takeshi Hiray-ama:Lancet,8364:1425,1983.(英文)]撰写的两篇有关被动吸烟与肺癌的报告和希腊最新的研究资料,其结果与作者在日本的研究相一致。本文所撰即为新近研究的结果。本随访研究规模之大共涉及265,118名成人(112,261例男性和142,857例女性),其随访年龄均在40岁以上。调查成员总体的91—99％是在1965年随访的。 在16年的随访中(从1966～1981年)共有429例女性死于肺癌。在91,540例其丈夫有明显吸烟习惯的已婚妇女中,不吸烟女性有303例。而429例死于肺癌的女性中,有200例是不会吸烟的。丈夫不会吸烟、 Professor Correa and colleagues recently wrote two reports on passive smoking and lung cancer and latest research data from Greece in [Takeshi Hiray-ama: Lancet, 8364:1425, 1983 (English)], the results of which are in Japan’s Research is consistent. This article is the result of a recent study. The total size of this follow-up study involved 265,118 adults (112,261 men and 142,857 women), and their follow-up age was over 40 years old. 91-99% of the surveyed members were followed up in 1965. A total of 429 women died of lung cancer during 16 years of follow-up (from 1966 to 1981). Of the 91,540 married women whose husbands had obvious smoking habits, 303 were non-smoking women. Of the 429 women who died of lung cancer, 200 did not smoke. Husband does not smoke,