| Article ID: | iaor201526486 |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 766 |
| End Page Number: | 769 |
| Publication Date: | May 2015 |
| Journal: | Risk Analysis |
| Authors: | Boffetta Paolo, Vecchia Carlo La, Moolgavkar Suresh |
| Keywords: | geography & environment |
Inappropriate measures of exposure, including inadequate consideration of latency in the analysis of chronic effects of air pollution, may lead to overestimation of the impact of air pollution on health effects. A relatively simple way to check the plausibility of results on chronic effects of air pollution would be to report in parallel the smoking‐associated risks.