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Table 1 Annual death rates, per 100,000 men aged 35–69 years, due to UADT cancer, attributed to smoking or not, by neighborhood income quintile, together with the stratum specific number of deaths due to lung cancer and UADT cancer and the population count, respectively

From: An observational study to assess changes in social inequality in smoking-attributable upper aero digestive tract cancer mortality among Canadian males between 1986 and 2001

  Overall Lowest ǂ Middle ǂ Highest ǂ
1986     
Yes* 21.7 42.6 20.1 12.8
No** 10.3 13.7 9.7 8.0
Total 32.0 56.3 29.8 20.8
Total UADT cancer deaths 683 258 258 167
Total lung cancer deaths 2744 830 1117 797
Population 2789815 532395 1091295 1166125
1991     
Yes* 18.8 32.5 20.1 10.9
No** 9.6 11.4 10.2 7.5
Total 28.5 43.9 30.3 18.4
Total UADT cancer deaths 680 208 306 166
Total lung cancer deaths 2881 830 1237 814
Population 3244930 593665 1283315 1367950
1996     
Yes* 15.4 26.7 16.9 9.0
No** 9.7 11.4 10.6 7.3
Total 25.1 38.1 27.5 16.3
Total UADT cancer deaths 665 188 298 179
Total lung cancer deaths 2608 696 1092 820
Population 3679785 679915 1431225 1568645
2001     
Yes* 12.8 24.5 12.8 8.2
No** 9.6 11.0 9.4 8.6
Total 22.4 35.5 22.2 16.8
Total UADT cancer deaths 676 187 269 220
Total lung cancer deaths 2487 673 1041 773
Population 4205285 778220 1628620 1798445
  1. *UADT cancer mortality attributable to smoking, ** not attributable to smoking.
  2. Average lung cancer rates for 35–69 year old male smokers of CPS II study was 22.2 per 100,000 and for non-smokers the rates were 6 per 100,000.
  3. ǂ Neighborhood income quintile divided in lowest = poorest, middle = poorer + middle, and highest = richer + richest.
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