<story><title>Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asian-american-women-lung-cancer-rcna138895</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>12% of Asian American men smoke compared with 2.6% of women.  So non smoking Asian women are more likely to live with a smoking man.  Could second hand smoking exposure be a factor in this?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lung.org&amp;#x2F;quit-smoking&amp;#x2F;smoking-facts&amp;#x2F;impact-of-tobacco-use&amp;#x2F;tobacco-use-racial-and-ethnic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lung.org&amp;#x2F;quit-smoking&amp;#x2F;smoking-facts&amp;#x2F;impact-of-to...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>This is what I first thought of as well, but other sources indicate that Asian Americans are actually the demographic with the &lt;i&gt;least&lt;/i&gt; overall cigarette use[1]. Given that White and Black Americans use cigarettes at almost twice the rate Asian Americans do, we&amp;#x27;d expect strong second-hand correlations for those groups as well.&lt;p&gt;(This source doesn&amp;#x27;t quantify &amp;quot;use,&amp;quot; so there are confounding factors: prevalence of smoking at home, chain smoking vs. social smoking, etc.)&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu&amp;#x2F;racialethnic-minorities&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu&amp;#x2F;racialethnic-min...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asian-american-women-lung-cancer-rcna138895</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>12% of Asian American men smoke compared with 2.6% of women.  So non smoking Asian women are more likely to live with a smoking man.  Could second hand smoking exposure be a factor in this?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lung.org&amp;#x2F;quit-smoking&amp;#x2F;smoking-facts&amp;#x2F;impact-of-tobacco-use&amp;#x2F;tobacco-use-racial-and-ethnic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lung.org&amp;#x2F;quit-smoking&amp;#x2F;smoking-facts&amp;#x2F;impact-of-to...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>max_</author><text>There are Many things that cause lung cancer other than smoking.&lt;p&gt;Infact majority of people that smoke don&amp;#x27;t get Cancer (only about 30% in a group of smokers get lung cancer)&lt;p&gt;Edit: I don&amp;#x27;t mean it&amp;#x27;s comforting I prefer to have it at 0&amp;#x2F;10&lt;p&gt;I am just trying to say that things that cause cancer are not as deterministic as we think.</text></comment>