<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>somethoughts</author><text>Not sure about the validity of the source but it does suggest that second hand smoke could be related.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;What’s behind this rise in lung cancer in women who have never smoked compared with men, and particularly in Asian American women? One possibility: While Chinese American women may never smoke themselves, they frequently live with partners or family members who do. (About 28% of Chinese American men smoke heavily, Dr. Li said.)  “We think secondhand smoke might be one of the key risk factors, because they’re living with people who smoke,” Dr. Li said.&amp;quot;  [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.chestnet.org&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;secondhand-smoke-may-be-fueling-an-increase-in-lung-cancer-diagnoses-in-chinese-american-women&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.chestnet.org&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;secondhand-sm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I could see a possible scenario where a first generation (i.e. immigrant, English as a second language) Asian father&amp;#x2F;husband smoking at home in the 1990-2010 timeframe and not getting the second hand smoking messages&amp;#x2F;ads (that were primarily in English as quickly) as the rest of Americans and it&amp;#x27;s is just now that the statistics are showing up.</text></comment>