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passive: see voice voice, grammatical category according to which an action is referred to as done by the subject (active, e.g., men shoot bears) or to the subject (passive, e.g., bears are shot by men). In Latin, voice is a category of inflection like mood or tense.
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Passive smoking was also linked to higher risk for carriage, but age, sex, social deprivation, home crowding, or school characteristics had little or no effect.
Social behavior and meningococcal carriage in British teenagers by Stuart, James M. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
In collaboration with Yamaguchi Prefectural University, the company has discovered that kale juice has a property to suppress the immune abnormality associated with passive smoking.
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Exposure to ETS--or passive smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke--is defined as exposure of a (nonsmoking) person to tobacco combustion products from smoking by others (Jaakkola and Jaakkola 1997).
How exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, outdoor air pollutants, ... by Rogers, Christine A. / Environmental Health Perspectives
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