Systematic review of cigar smoking and all cause and smoking related mortality

BMC Public Health

Table 15 Current cigar smoking and lung cancer

Study	Cohort name	Sex	Cigar smoker deaths	Effect estimate	95% CI	Measure	Primary/secondary*	Adjustment	ICD codes
*Current Cigar*
Kahn1966	Dorn study		25	1.59	(1.03, 2.35)	SMR		Age	ICD 7: 162-163
Carstensen1987	Swedish Census Cohort		11	7.6	(3.77, 13.65)	SMR		Age, residence	ICD 8: 162
Lange1992	Copenhagen City Heart Study	Men	47	6	(2.20, 17.00)	HR		Age	ICD 8: 162
Lange1992	Copenhagen City Heart Study	Women	14	4.9	(3.00,12.00)	HR		Age	ICD 8: 162
Ben-Shlomo1994	Whitehall study		1	1.8	(0.24, 13.31)	IRR	Primary	Age	ICD 8: 162
Ben-Shlomo1994	Whitehall study		20	7.64	(4.22, 13.83)	IRR	Secondary	Age	ICD 8: 162
Shanks1998	CPS-I		73	2.1	(1.63, 2.65)	IRR	Primary	Age
Shanks1998	CPS-I		83	6.29	(5.01, 7.79)	IRR	Secondary	Age
Shapiro2000	CPS-II		88	5.1	(4.00, 6.60)	HR	Primary	Age, alcohol, smokeless tobacco	ICD 9: 162
*Current Cigar and/or Pipe*
Chow1992	Dorn study		4	3.5	(1.00, 12.60)	HR		Age, occupation
Wald1997	British United Provident Association		6	3.19	(1.07, 9.50)	HR	Primary	Age	ICD 9: 162
Wald1997	British United Provident Association		9	8.64	(3.19, 23.30)	HR	Secondary	Age	ICD 9: 162

*Primary cigar smoking: current, exclusive cigar smoking with no previous history of cigarette or pipe smoking; primary cigar and/or pipe smoking: current, exclusive cigar and/or pipe smoking with no previous history of cigarette smoking; secondary cigar smoking: current, exclusive cigar smoking with previous history of cigarette or pipe smoking; secondary cigar and/or pipe smoking: current, exclusive cigar and/or pipe smoking with previous history of cigarette smoking.

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