Occupations, cigarette smoking, and lung cancer in the epidemiological follow-up to the NHANES I and the California Occupational Mortality Study.

摘要: What jobs are associated with the highest and lowest levels of cigarette use lung cancer? Are there gender differences in these jobs? Two data sets-the Epidemiological Follow-up to National Health Nutrition Examination Survey (NHEFS) California Occupational Mortality Study (COMS) were analyzed answer questions. For females, broad occupations ranking from NHEFS was: transportation operators, managers, craft workers, service operatives, laborers, technicians, administrative farm owners sales no occupation, professionals. The corresponding for males highest-ranking COMS waitresses, telephone cosmetologists women, water-transportation roofers, foresters loggers men. Teachers especially low on all four lists. This study could not determine whether employment within any occupation encouraged smoking or if smokers selected certain occupations.