ets exposure, lung cancer - Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

i.diated thau the escivsion of adrsoearci.omu
from thcir analysis rrodMcrd s
sutisyitally sitniRtant linear Irrad of
i .crcasing risk with iscrtasiaj ss-
'osure .
!a an i>.vestigation of ao+-adeaoearcinoma
iung ancers in .autnokinj
Athenian women, Triehopoutos st al .
(J!) rcpnncd a risk estimate ot 2 .4 for
women who%c Mustunds smoked itwtr
than 21 citareHCS per day sad a risk
Wirtultc oL3 .4 for women whos< t+us-
Irndr smoktd sore Ilun 20 eijarettes
rer day . As aucoeiation betwees marviajc
to a smoker and an inctuscd risk
of amail-ecll and squamous ee11 lung
areincrmas wa,; sl .n rshrcrved is a stady
c+f Ss'cdiah womcn (12) For otAcr lung
canecr ectt typrr, in the SMCdrsh study,
t1c ti/.ks Wctc clo.c ai unity ascspt in
the ea+.c of women with high espou+re
kvc) ., wbkw ri>,k4 wa.s tkluhlyd . A study
trt lifetimc wc/namuking wnmen in HunC
h:anr by taw ct .1, (13) .huWCd that e .roe.urc
/o envimamcnt,ll toMcco smoke
ws.c as,ociated with an elevated risk of
aquamous cell and large-cell eareinomas
. These results conflict with
tho+,e ohscrved in a multieentered study
3s the United States (4), where an ele•
vated risk of lung cancer attributable to
passive smoking was limited to patients
with adenoeareinonu ; these i>