Posted on 07/17/2004 5:20:46 PM PDT by qam1
Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden.
The impact of active smoking, passive smoking and obesity on habitual snoring in the population is mainly unknown. We aimed to study the relationship of habitual snoring with active and passive tobacco smoking in a population-based sample. A total of 15,555 (71%) of 21,802 randomly-selected men and women aged 25 to 54 years from Iceland, Estonia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden answered a postal questionnaire. Habitual snoring, defined as loud and disturbing snoring at least three nights a week was more prevalent among current smokers (24.0%, p<0.0001) and ex-smokers (20.3%, p<0.0001) than in never-smokers (13.7%). Snoring was also more prevalent in never-smokers exposed to passive smoking at home on a daily basis than in never-smokers without this exposure (19.8% vs. 13.3%, p<0.0001). The frequency of habitual snoring increased with the amount of tobacco smoked. Active and passive smoking were related to snoring, independent of obesity, gender, center and age. Ever smoking accounted for 17.1% of the attributable risk of habitual snoring, obesity (body mass index >30 kg/m2) for 4.3% and passive smoking for 2.2%. Smoking, both current and ex-smoking, is a major contributor to habitual snoring in the general population. Passive smoking is a previously unrecognized risk factor for snoring among adults.
PMID: 15242843 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
And More precious research dollars that could be used to find a cure for cancer, etc wasted on such silliness
PING
Think of the children who will be condemned to a life of snoring!
Smoking + snoring?????
Its ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!
..and beans make me fart, so should I give up beans or just fart in their general direction?
Oh yes! And get this: I glanced at an article yesterday where a Team spent millions to study the "misunderstood sex life of a lobster." Can you believe it??
Book discusses mysterious and misunderstood sex lives of lobsters
LOL!
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