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Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Measuring Exposures and Assessing Health Effects
TABLE B-1 Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer: Observed Numbers Used to Calculate Values in Table 12–4a
Type of Study
Study Authors
Sex
Spouse Smoker
Spouse Nonsmoker
Risks
Cases (a)
Controls (b)
Cases (c)
Controls (d)
Computed
Published
CC
Chan and Fung, 1982
F
34
66
50
73
0.75
—
CC
Trichopoulos et al., 1983
F
38
81
24
109
2.13
2.4, 3.4
CC
Correa et al., 1983
F
M
14
2
61
26
8
6
72
154
2.03
2.29
2.00
2.07
CC
Kabat and Wynder, 1984
F
M
13
5
15
5
11
7
10
7
0.79
1.00
—
—
CC
Buffler et al., 1984
F
M
33
5
164
56
8
6
32
34
0.80
0.50
0.78
0.52
CC
Garfinkel et al., 1985
F
92
266
42
136
1.12
1.12
CC
Pershagen et al., in press
F
33
150
34
197
1.28
1.2
CC
Akiba et al., 1986
F
M
73
3
188
9
21
16
82
101
1.48
2.45
1.5
1.8
CC
Koo et al., 1985
F
51
66
35
70
1.54
1.64
CC
Lee et al., 1986
F
M
22
8
45
14
10
7
21
16
1.03
1.30
1.00
1.30
PRO
Garfinkel, 1981
F
88
127,164
65
49,422
—
1.27, 1.10
PRO
Gillis et al., 1984
F
M
6
4
1,388
306
2
2
521
515
—
—
1.00
3.25
PRO
Hirayama, 1984
F
M
146
7
69,287
1,003
37
57
21,858
19,222
—
—
1.45, 1.91
2.25
ABBREVIATIONS: CC=Case-Control
PRO=Prospective
aFor the calculations, (a) through (d) are used for case-control studies and published RR are used for prospective studies.
