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

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Table 23 Current cigar smoking and aortic aneurysm

Study	Cohort name	Cigar smoker deaths	Effect estimate	95% CI	Measure	Primary/secondary*	Adjustment	ICD codes
*Current Cigar*
Kahn1966	Dorn study	24	2.06	(1.32, 3.07)	SMR		Age	ICD 7: 450
Carstensen1987	Swedish Census Cohort	4	5.1	(1.33, 13.19)	SMR		Age, residence	ICD 8: 451
Shanks1998	CPS-I	46	1.76	(1.29, 2.35)	IRR	Primary	Age
Shanks1998	CPS-I	31	2.82	(1.91, 4.00)	IRR	Secondary	Age
*Current Cigar and/or Pipe*
Strachan1991	Whitehall study		5.4	(1.90, 15.30)	OR		Age	ICD 8: 441

*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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