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adj. referring to being inactive. A "passive trustee" is one who has no responsibilities other than to hold title or wait for an event which would activate the trust. "Passive income" for tax purposes includes any income in which there is no effort or active management, and is treated differently for some purposes, such as social security income limitations. It may include stock dividends, trust profits, rents with no management involvement, and interest on bank accounts.

PASSIVE, com. law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in contradistinction to active. (q.v.) By active debts are understood those which may be employed in furnishing assets to a merchant to pay those which he owes, which are called passive debts.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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In a cross-sectional analysis of data from 3 years of the Health Survey for England, marked dose-response relationships were observed between passive smoking exposure and respiratory symptoms, but the most marked effects were on the development of clinically significant COPD, where the risk among never-smokers was doubled if exposure exceeded 20 h/week.37 In another study conducted on females in Syria, passive smoking was associated with FEV1/FVC<70% after bronchodilators, which confirms the role of passive smoking in airway obstruction.38 Though we enrolled our subjects from different age groups, residence and educational levels, by involving attendants of patients coming in the OPD, the single-centre nature is our study's limitation.

Role of passive smoking in non-smoking related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Passive smoking at home and cancer risk: a population-based prospective study in Japanese non-smoking women.

IS THERE A ROLE FOR PASSIVE SMOKING IN CERVICAL NEOPLASIA--A STUDY

Table 4 shows that passive smoking is significantly decreasing as level of education increasing.

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) among pregnant women visiting primary health care (PHC) in Makkah

"Reports indicate nearly 600,000 people die of passive smoking around the world every year.

Shisha joints ban teens and pregnant women

"I'm alarmed to see that our area is potentially one of the worst in the country for this, so I hope that by raising awareness of the damage passive smoking can cause to the lungs of children I can help change some attitudes locally."

MP warns of dangers to children from smoke

The association of both active and passive smoking with increased risk of breast cancer is biologically plausible, especially when exposure occurs during certain critical periods, according to the study.

A ' smoke- shot' way to breast cancer after menopause

A Royal College of Physicians report this year claimed 22,000 cases of asthma in children caused were by passive smoking.

Don't let your kids' health take backseat; HEALTH CHIEF CALLS FOR BAN ON SMOKING IN CARS

Passive smoking also places a large financial burden on the NHS.

'Reduce the risks of secondhand smoke'

And 40 babies die from sudden infant death syndrome every year caused by passive smoking - one in five of all cot deaths.

Call for ban on smoking in cars

DOCTORS today called for a ban on smoking in all vehicles after a new report revealed passive smoking causes at least 22,000 new cases of asthma and wheezing in children every year.

GPs call for car smoking ban

DOCTORS today called for a ban on smoking in all vehicles after a report revealed passive smoking causes at least 22,000 new cases of asthma and wheezing in children every year.

Calls to ban car smoking; WORLDTODAY

Passive smoking and cardiovascular pathology; mechanisms and physiopathological bases of damage.

Passive smoking and cardiovascular pathology; mechanisms and physiopathological bases of damage