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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 8 Other Cancers |
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| | Other Cancers: Breast Cancer |
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| | A women's risk of dying from breast cancer is increased by 25% if she is a smoker. If |
| | she smokes two packs or more a day, the risk is increased by 75%. |
| | American Cancer Society Newsletter, Winter 1995 |
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| | Ever-active female smokers had double the risk for developing breast cancer |
| | compared to never-active, never-passive smokers, in a study from Massachusetts. |
| | American Journal of Epidemiology 149: 5-12, 1999 |
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| | Postmenopausal women who carry a defective or slow form of the acetylator enzyme |
| | N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) and who smoke a pack a day or more appear to |
| | increase their risk for breast cancer four-fold. The prevalence of the slow form of |
| | NAT2 is about 55% in white women, 35% in blacks, 10-20% in Asians, and 65-90% in |
| | those of Middle Eastern descent. The enzyme is thought to help detoxify carcinogens |
| | in tobacco smoke. |
| | JAMA, November 13, 1996 |
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| | In a study from Switzerland, a three-fold increased risk of breast cancer was found |
| | among nonsmoking women who had been regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at |
| | home or at work. For active smokers of a pack a day or more, the risk for breast |
| | cancer was 4.6 times greater. |
| | New York Times, May 5, 1996 (from May 1996 American Journal of Epidemiology) |
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| | A Danish study found a 60% increase in the risk of breast cancer in women who had |
| | smoked cigarettes for more than 30 years. Smokers tended to develop cancer at a |
| | younger age, and those who had started to smoke before 16 and who smoked more |
| | than 25 cigarettes a day faced an 80% increase in breast cancer risk. |
| | New York Times, October 7, 1997 |
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