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

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Current cigar smoking and oral cancer

Study	Cohort name	Cigar smoker deaths	Effect estimate	95% CI	Measure	Primary/secondary*	Adjustment	ICD codes
*Current Cigar*
Kahn1966	Dorn study	9	4.11	(1.86, 7.84)	SMR		Age	ICD 7: 140-150
Shanks1998	CPS-I	25	7.92	(5.12, 11.69)	IRR	Primary	Age
Shanks1998	CPS-I	8	6.58	(2.83, 12.97)	IRR	Secondary	Age
Shapiro2000	CPS-II	6	4	(1.50, 10.30)	HR	Primary	Age, alcohol, smokeless tobacco	ICD 9: 140–141, 143-149

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

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