Smoking Habits, Local Brand Cigarettes and Lung Cancer Risk in Okinawa, Japan.
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- Wakai Kenji
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
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- Ohno Yoshiyuki
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
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- Genka Keiichiro
- National Okinawa Hospital
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- Ohmine Keisho
- Okinawa Prefecture Mental Health Care Center
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- Kawamura Takashi
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
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- Tamakoshi Akiko
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
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- Aoki Rie
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
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- Kojima Masayo
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
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- Lin Ying Song
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
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- Aoki Kunio
- Aichi Cancer Center
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- Fukuma Seigo
- Chiba Cancer Center
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Abstract
To disclose the association between smoking habits and lung cancer in Okinawa, Japan, we analyzed the data from a case-control study conducted from 1988 to 1991. The analysis, based on 333 cases and 666 age-, sexand residence-matched population controls, provided the following major findings. (a) The odds ratios (ORs) for current smokers relative to nonsmokers were much greater for squamous cell carcinoma than for adenocarcinoma. The OR was 9.82 for squamous cell carcinoma and 2.18 for adenocarcinoma in males, 28.2 and 1.14, correspondingly, in females. (b) Males who quitted smoking for 20 years or more demonstrated no elevated lung cancer risk. (c) Among male current smokers, the more the number of cigarettes smoked per day, the higher the lung cancer risk for both cell types, but particularly for squamous cell carcinoma. In contrast, deep smoke inhalation significantly increased the risk for adenocarcinoma in particular. (d) Okinawan brand cigarettes were more strongly associated with the risk, compared with other brand ones. This finding might partly explain the higher frequency of lung cancer in males with the relatively lower smoking rate in Okinawa. J Epidemiol, 1997 ; 7 : 99-105.
Journal
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- Journal of Epidemiology
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Journal of Epidemiology 7 (2), 99-105, 1997
Japan Epidemiological Association
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282679452379520
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- NII Article ID
- 10016354349
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- NII Book ID
- AA10952696
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- DOI
- 10.2188/jea.7.99
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- COI
- 1:STN:280:ByiA1MfosVI%3D
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- ISSN
- 13499092
- 09175040
- http://id.crossref.org/issn/09175040
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- PubMed
- 9255031
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- Text Lang
- en
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- JaLC
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