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Smoking Cessation and Nonsmoking Intervals: Effect of Different Smoking Patterns on Lung Cancer Risk.
Cancer Causes Control 2, 381-387 (1991)
A case-control study of lung cancer was conducted in northwestern Germany in 1985–86. The study included 194 lung cancer cases and the same number of hospital controls and population controls who were matched to the cases by sex and age. Personal interviews were conducted by trained interviewers. We report here the effect of different smoking patterns—such as nonsmoking intervals, and time since quitting smoking—on lung cancer risk. Both quitting smoking and having a nonsmoking interval are seen to reduce lung cancer risk significantly. For a nonsmoking interval of three years or more, relative risk (RR)=0.21, 95 percent confidence interval (CI)=0.08–0.52; for quitting smoking for 10 years or more, RR=0.23, CI=0.11–0.48). A dose-response relationship was estimated for cigarette dose, length of nonsmoking interval, and time since stopped smoking.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Case-control study; dose-response; Germany; lung cancer; nonsmoking period; smoking cessation patterns
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0957-5243
e-ISSN
1573-7225
Journal
Cancer Causes & Control
Quellenangaben
Volume: 2,
Issue: 6,
Pages: 381-387
Publisher
Springer
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Epidemiology (EPI)