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REPORT SAYS BLACK SMOKERS ARE LIKELY TODIE YOUNG 03/14/06
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Startling findings from a three-year long research
conducted by a group of scientist on the histories of over 180,000 people of
different races say that the probability of a smokers developing
lung cancer is
largely a function of his skin.
Research shows that, black who smoke are
50 per cent more likely to develop lung cancer than
whites and Asians. The
report also says blacks are more likely to die young from lung cancer.
Entitled, “Ethnic and Racial
Differences in the Smoking-Related
Risk of Lung
Cancer,” the research was originally conducted to determine the influence of
genes on lung cancer risks. Scientist at the University
of Southern California and University of Hawaii conducted it.
“We investigate difference in the risk
of lung cancer associated with cigarette
Smoking among 183,813
African-Americans, Japanese-American, Latino, Native Hawaiians, and white men
and women. Among participants who
smoked no more than 30 cigarettes per day, African
Americans and Native Hawaiians had significantly greater risks of lung cancer
than did the other groups.
“Among those who smoked no more than 10
and those who smoked 11 to 20 cigarettes per day, relative risk range from 0.21
to 0.39 (P<0.001) among Japanese Americans and Latinos and from 0.45to 0.57
(P<0.001) among whites, as compared with African Americans,”
The researches however say that at
levels exceeding 30 cigarettes per day, these differences were not significant,
The
researchers who adjusted their finding for diet, education and other factors
also discovered that whites who smoked up to a pack a day had a 43 per cent to
55per cent lower risk of lung cancer than blacks who smoked the same amount.
Interestingly , the researchers say non-smoking Blacks, His-panic and
Japanese-American also have higher risk of developing lung cancer than
non-smoking in white men. These differences were however not observed among
women.
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