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Relative Risk for Current Smokers - Men vs. Women

By sara on May 24, 2007
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Sources: The American Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.org/docro...)

The risk of smoking differs between men and women due to a number of factors, including the average number of cigarettes smoked, how deeply they inhale, the age at which they started smoking, etc. Women only have a greater risk than men for cancer of the esophagus, but men are by far at more risk for the rest of the smoking related cancers. Welcome to Marlboro Country

The relative risk (RR) is the risk of death from cancer among current or former smokers as compared to the risk for nonsmokers. For example, assume that the risk of death from a type of cancer among nonsmokers, ex-smokers, and current smokers was 5, 10, and 20 deaths per 100,000 people per year, respectively. The relative risk for ex-smokers would be 10 divided by 5, equaling 2. In other words, former smokers would be twice as likely as those who never smoked to die from this type of cancer. The RR for current smokers would be 20 divided by 5, equaling 4. Current smokers, then, would be 4 times more likely than those who never smoked to die from this cancer.

—sara