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Smoking and the risk of upper aero digestive tract cancers for men and women in the Asia-Pacific region
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posted on 2009-04-03, 00:00 authored by Alireza Ansary-Moghaddam, Alexandra Martiniuk, Tai-Hing Lam, Konrad Jamrozik, Akiko Tamakoshi, Xinghua Fang, Il Suh, Federica Barzi, Rachel HuxleyRachel Huxley, Mark WoodwardAlthough smoking is an established causal factor for upper aero digestive tract cancer (UADTC), most of the evidence originates from the West. Thus, we analysed data from 455,409 subjects in the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration. Over a median of around six years follow-up, 371 deaths from UADTC were observed- The hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) for current smokers, compared with those who had never smoked, was 2.36 (1.76 - 3.16), adjusted for age and alcohol drinking- Tobacco control policies are urgently required in Asia to prevent millions of deaths from UADTC that smoking will otherwise cause.
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthVolume
6Issue
4Pagination
1358 - 1370Publisher
M D P I AGLocation
Basel, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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cancer of the pharynxcancer of the larynxcancer of the esophagussmokingalcoholScience & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineEnvironmental SciencesPublic, Environmental & Occupational HealthEnvironmental Sciences & EcologyLUNG-CANCERESOPHAGEAL CANCERFEMALE SMOKERSTOBACCOMORTALITYJAPANADENOCARCINOMAEPIDEMIOLOGYDRINKING
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