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Table 1 Modified from Doll & Hill 1950 (Table V, p. 742) [17]

From: The riddle of shiftwork and disturbed chronobiology: a case study of landmark smoking data demonstrates fallacies of not considering the ubiquity of an exposure

“Tabel V. – Most recent [number of ciggarettes] consumed regularly by smokers before the onset of present illness”

Disease Group

No. Smoking Dailya

1 Cig.

5 Cigs.

15 Cigs.

25 Cigs.

50 Cigs.

Males:

Lung-carcinoma patients (647)

33

250

196

136

32

Control patients with diseases other than cancer (622)

55

293

190

71

13

  1. aFor simplicty of calculations, we used the cut-points of Doll’s & Hill’s original table to be the total amount of cigarrettes smoked by these individuals
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Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology

ISSN: 1745-6673