Non-linear relationship between lung cancer risk and cigarette tar yield
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SHORT REPORT Lung Cancer Risk Is Proportional to Cigarette Tar Yield: Evidence from a Prospective Study
The age-adjusted risk for lung cancer among over 120,000 male current cigarette smokers in the American Cancer Society’s 1959-1972 prospective study was analyzed according to tar yield and quantity smoked per day. At each quantity level, the risk increased with increasing tar yield, and at each tar level, the risk increased with numbers of cigarettes smoked daily. The risks in smokers of cigare...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2004.la0079