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hiniuary 1973
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EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
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Preface
This report is the: seventh in a series issued by the Public Health
Seri-ice~ res-i~etiuing~ and assessing, tlie~~ scientific evidence linking ciga-
rette rette smoking to disease anrl premature death. The current report
reiterates, strengthens, and estends the fiildings in earlier reports
that cigarette smoking is a major health problem~ in the United
States,
The~ evidence has~ broadened dramaticallly~ in~ recent years: A Ptiblic
Health Service assessment of evidence available in 1959 was largely
focused on the relationsllip of cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
The~ first': formal report~ on thi:s~ subject in 1964~~ found that cigarette
smoking was not onlyy a major cause of lung cancer and chronic
bronchiti's, but was, associated wit.h~ illness and; death~ froin chronic~
bronchoplllmonary disease, cardiovascular~~ di'sease,~ and other diseases.
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The 19T3' report confirms~ all these~ relationships and~ adds~ new
evidence in other areas as well. The evidence in the ehapter, on preg-
nancy~ strongly~~ indi:cates! . a~ causal relationship between ci:garette~
smoking dliring~~ pregnancy and'~lower infant birth~ «~eightand a strong,,
probably~~ causal''y association between ci~garette~ smoking: . and higher late~~
fetal and neonatal mortality. Also reported is the convergence of other
evidence which suggestls, that cigaretlt~e~ smoki:ng~ d'uring, pregnancy
interacts w:ith~ otller~ risk~fact~:ors to~~increase~ the~ risk of~~ an unfavorable
outcome of pregnancy for certain women more than others.~
For~ the first time~ in this~ series~ of reports, a separate~ chapter is,
d'evotedl to, pipe~ and ci~gar~ smoking and the~ heal~th hazarels involved.
Includedl is an, assessment ofi' the health impl~ications, of~ the new small
cigars which look like cigarettes.
A final chapternew to~~the~reports, concerns, cig~arette~smoking~and~~e exercise performance. A
review of a number of fitness~testls, comparing
smokers~~ to nonsmokers indicates~ that cigarette smoking~~ i~mpairs~ exer-
cise~ performance for~ many types~ of athletic, events and actin-ities~in-~
volving~~ma~xim:a1 work~capacity~.
The~~ interrelationships~ of smoking~ and health are no less~ complex
today ~ than they~ «..ere~ reported~ to be in t1le~ 1~:9641 report:~ But simce~e
that~ti;me~ we ha:ve greatly broadencdlour l.nowl~ed'ge~ and Iulderstanding~
of the prolileim : Th:e~cmrrent report s~ymtSolizes~ this progress,
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Table of Contents
PREFACE------------------------------------------
TAB!IGE OF CONTENTS_________________
PREPAR'ATION OF THE REPORT AND ACKNOWL-
EDMIENTS' ------------------------
Chapter 1. Cardiovascular Diseases_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Page
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Chapter 2. NonneopIastic Bronchopulmonary Diseases------- 33'
Chapter 3. Cancer-------------------------------------- 65
Chapter 4: Pregnancy----------------------------------- 99i
Chapter 5., Peptic U1cer Disease-------------------------- 153
Chap ter 6. Pipe and Cigar Sinoking----------------------- 167
Chapter 7. Exercise Perforrnance~-------------------------- 239'
INDEX------------------------------------------------ 251

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Preparation of the Report
and Acknowledgments
"Sinoking and Health. Report of the Advisory Committee to the
Surgeon General of'the Public Health Service,"' subsequently referred
to as the "Surgeon General's Report;"' was published in 119641. The
hTlational Clearinghouse for Smoking and Healthy establ'ished in 11965,
has the responsibility for the continuous monitoring,, compilation,
and review of the world's medical literature which bears upon the
health consequences of smoking, As called f'or by Pubiic Law 89'-92, the
following three reviews of the medical literature on the health conse-
quences of'smoking, which had come to the attention of the Clearing-
house since the original "Surgeon General's Report,"' were sent to
the Congress :
1. ~"The~ H'ealth~ Consequences of ~ Smoking, A Public Health Service~~
Revie:w:1967" (submittedJuly 1967).
2. "The Health~ Consequences of Smoking; 1968 Supplement to the
1967 PHS Review" (submitted July 1968).
3. "The Health~ Consequences of Smoking, 1969: Supplement to ~ the:
1967 PHS R'eview"' ( submitted July 1969).
Public Law 91-222 was signed into law on April 1'1 1970; and called
for an 18-month interval between the 1969 supplement and the next
report. During this period, a comprehensive review of all of the medi'-
cal literature available to the Clearinghouse relating to the health,
consequences of smoking was undertaken, with an emphasis upon the
most recent additions to the literature. The product ofl this review was :
"The Health Consequences of Smoking A Report of the Surgeon.
General : 1971,"' submittedl to the Congress in January of 1971. Sub-sequently, a review of
themedh'cal literature in the field, which had
cometothe attention of the Clearinghousesincethepublication of'the
1971 report, waspublislied as,"`Il'heHealtl,il ConsequencesofSrnoking;,
A Report of the Surgeon Generall: 1972," submitted ini Januaryof'
1972..
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Every report published since: the originall "Surgeon G'eneral's Re-
port" has contained a review of the medical literature relevant to the
association between smoking and cardiovascular disease, nonneoplastic
bronchopulmonary disease, and cancer., Severall of' the reports in-
cluded reviews of'the rel'ationship between smoking and peptic ulcer
disease (1967,1971,1972). an& cigarett'e smoking,and pregnancy (1967,
1969, 1971, 1972') . Other topics relating to the use of' tobacco haved received special emphasis in
single reports :
1. Tobacco Amblyopia~ (1971 Report) ..
2. Allergy (1I972' R'eport ) .
3. Public Exposure to Air Pollution From Tobacco Smoke (1972:
Report ) .,
4. HarmfullConstituentsof Cigarette Smoke (1972'Report).
5. I\?oncancerousOral Disease ( 11969'Report).
The, present document, "The Health Consequences of Smoking:
1i973;'"' includes reviews of the relationships between smoking and!
card'iovasculardisea6e, bron,chopulmonarydisease cancer, and peptic
ulcer disease which are based uponi medical literature which has
become a~vailable, to the Clearinghouse since the publication ofthe1972 report.. It also inclhzdes
special rev.iews of the health consequences
of' pipe and cigar smoking, andi of' the relationship between cigarette
smoking and the outcomes of pregnancy. The material in these two
latter chapters refllects a comprehensive revieww of' the pertinent world
medical literature wliiich has come to the attention of th!eClearing-house since the publication
ofthe~ originall "Surgeon General's, Re-port,."' including materiall which has become available
since the. 1972
report. The final chapter in this year's report is a review of the: rela-
tionship between smoking and exerciseperformance; an area not
covered previously in any report.
Witht'heexception of'"`Chapter 4,Pregnaney,"each chapter is orga-
nized in a, similar fashion. The introduction to each chapter is a sum-
mary of the work reviewed in previous. reports. The summary of eachh
chapter encompasses only the work which has most recently become
a~vailabletothe Clearinghouse. The pregnancy chapter is organized
int~o~ separate sections according to several different ontcome&of preg-nancy. Each section includes
a~ brief review of previously reportedd
work and contains its own separate summ~ary;, in placeof' an overalll
summaryy for the entirechapt'er.
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The~ preparation of this report~ was! accompiished~ in~ the following~
j' 1/ fashion~:
I
1! 1. The continuous monitoring and compilation of the medical liter-
11 ature on t.he health consequences of smoking was accomplished
throughseverall mechanisms.
(a) An iirformatlion science corporation is on contract to extract
articles on smoking, and health from themed'heal literature~~
of the worid.'h'Irisorganization provirlesa semimonthly ae-cessionslist with abstracts~ and copies
of t'hevariousartliclles_
Translations are called for as needed. Articles are classified
accord7ng, to subject andl filedl by ai series of' code words and
phrases.,
(b): The National Librairyof .l'bedicine; through the hledlhrssyst'em, sends the National
Clearinghousefar Srnokingand
Health a monthly listing ofl articles in the smoking and
health area. These are reviewed, and articles not identified
by the information sciencecorporatiion are orderred.(c) Staff members review current medical
literature and identify
pertinent articles.
2, The first drafts of'the individual chapters were sent to reviewers
for criticism~ and'~ comment~ with respect~ to the art!icles~ reviewed,~,
articles not included, and conclusions. The drafts were then re-
vised until they met, ~ w~i'th~ the general approval ofI the reviewers.
The final drafts:w~ere review.edl as,a.vhole by ~ the~ Directlor~of the
National C1'earingliouse~~for~S'rnolk~~ing~ and Health, the D'ir:ector~of
the National Cancer Iinst~i'tute,the Director~of~the:National Heart
and if.ung~ Iiistitute tlhe~ I)irecct~or of~ the~ National Institute of~
Environmental Health~ Sciences, the Surgeon GeneralL, and by~~
additional expert~s botlii within and outside of the Public Health.
Service.
Acknowledgments
The National Clearinghouse for Smoking,andl Health,~ Daniel Horn.
Ph. D~., Director, was responsible forr the preparation of this report.
Jledical Staff I)irector~ for the, report ~~~as~ E1'vi~n E. _1~dams;~ I~S.D'~.,~
A~ssistant~ _lledical~ Staff I)~ilrector was hl.~ Stephen «'illiams;~ M.D~~.~con-
sulting~edi'tors were~Daniel P. Asnes. A'I.I).,~David G. Cook;_:1~S.IJ.,~and1
.Iohn Il. Ilolbrooh~. M.D.
The~ professional stat}'~hEis~ hacll t'h~e~~ assistance~ and advice of a number
ofl experts iia the scientlifi~c~ancl technical fields.~both iir and outside the~
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Government. Their eontributiionsare gratefully ackno«ledged. Speciall
tllanksare due the f'ollowing:.
AqoeasoN, WiLLtA1r H.,, 31.D:-Chief; Pulmonary Section; School of' Medicine,
lCniver,ity of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
:AUESBAcx; OscAta, M.D.-senior Medical Investigator, Veterans!,Administratiion
Hr~spital. East Orange, N.J.
AYxeN, STEPfIEsSL., 3f:D.--Direetor,, Cardi'opulmonarsLaboratory, S'aintVincent's Hospital and
Medical Center of New York, New York,,-N'.Y:
Bocx., FRED Gl Ph. D-Director, Orchard' Park Laboratories, Roswelli Park
Memorial Institute, Orchard I'ark, N.Y.
BoxeN, Hor.r[sGL, M:D.-Jfedicai Investigator, Veterans, Ad'niinistrationHos-pital Tampa, FlaL
BoUT1VELL,. RoSWELI:. K., '.A.D.-Professor of Oncology, McArdle'. Lahorator9' for
Cancer Re.,earcha University of'«'isconsin, Madison, Wis.
Bxoss,, Ixwt:v4 M.D.-Director of'Biostatistics, Roswell Park Memorial Inst'itute;.
Buffalo, N.Y.
Cooree,, Ti[F:oooxF;, \I.D:-Director National Heart and Lung, Institute, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Mdi
EPSTE;rv, FREDERICK H., 3I.D.-Director aud Professor of Epidemiology, School'i
of Publie Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
FALK, I1:.~s L., Ph. D.-Associate Director for Program,, NationaU Institute of
EirvironuientaiHeaitlh, StiencesResearch Triangle Park, N.C.
Faa[t[tts, Be.v,ta:,[i.g G., Jr., '-\I.ID!-Professor of'~ EnvironmentaU Health and Safety,.
Schonl,of Public Health, HarvardlUniversity, Boston, Mass.
FH.tz[ER, Touu \L-?issistant Director, Harrard, Center for Community Health
andl Medical Care, Srhool of Public Health, Harvard University. Boston, Mass.
ti RdsTO:c, :lf.Ds-Associate Professor of Medicine; Head~ Division of'
Gastroentierolugy, Uni~versitsof U'tah1Tedical School, Salt Lake City,, Utah.
Go[aDsMrrHJotrs R., 3I.D: Head, Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Bureau of'.
(lucupationall Health andl Environmental Epidemiology, Cali£orniaState De-partlmentl of'I't[bli;c
Health, Berkeley, Calif.
Goas,, GIo BATTA, J1.D.-Assooiat!e Scientific Director f'or Program, Division of
Cancer Cause and Prevention, National Cancer Instfitlute,Bethesda, Md.
I'droo[sy, IAx T. T., M.D.-Professor of Epidemiology, School of' Public Health,
University of J37cliigan,,Ann Arbor, Mich.
HoFFMA:r:v,, DzaTS[axy Ph. D.-Chief'y Division of Environmental Carcinogenesis,
American Health Foundation,,NewYork:, N.Y.
KELLER, :1NuaeW Z., D:JI:Dr-Chief. Research in Geographic Epidemiology, ti'et-
eransA,dh[ihistratiouiCAntral Office, Washington, D.C.
.
IK'ass_1;Ea; JOSEPH B., 1T:D., Pi[. D!-Chief'of Staff and DeputlvDean for 3Tedical
?.ft'ailey The I"ritlzker School of'J'fedicine,, University of Chicago Hospitals and.
Clinics, (:'hi~cago, Ilh
KotBYE ALBERT C., Jr.,, M.ID. J.D.-Deputy Director, Bureau of' FoodS, Food and
Dr[igA1Luinist'mation U.S. Department of Health, Educabion,and Welfare;
i6'ashington, D.C.
I+izu.c e[oLZ, RIelnh[in A.,, 1T.D.-JIe<lical Director, I7[stituteofl Respiratory ~ Dis-easev,
Kettering Medical Center, Ietteri'ngO'hio:
LitcfNFEUU, ABRAHAM, 3I:D.-Pcofeysor and Cliai'rman, Department of Epidem-
iology, School of' Hygieneand' Public Health The Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md.
Jici:EAN, Ross. AI[D;-ProfesSorofl Medicine, Briwman Gray School of 3ledici'ne;Wal<eForest
Uhihersit,v;,A4'inst'on-SalemN.C:

.l'Ic-l1rLLx:v, GARnNEx,C., II.D!-Chief, Arteriosclerotic Disease Branchi4'ational
Heartand'LungInstitute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
JI'AcJLkuos, BRrua, JI.D'.-Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health{,
I[Iarvard University, Boston, Mass.
JCEYEa;, \lieRY B., M.S.-Assistant Professor of Epidemiology,, The Johns ~ Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Md.
\liraHELL, ROGER S., 3T,D.-Chief of' Staff, Veterans Administration Hospital,
i')enver. C'olo:
lILRrHY, EoscoNn A., \1i.D., Sc: D.-Associate Professor of Medicine and BYO.
statistics, The Johns Hopkins Hospital,, Baltimore, bld..
NEZ-resHEra PAUL, \I.D.-Group Leader, Respiratory Carcinogenesis;: Biology
I)ivision, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
PhEFEtiD:YRGER;, RA'LPH5., Jr., M.D.-Chief Epidemi..OlOgvSection, Bllreauu ofAd'ult Health and
Chronic Diseases, Californiai State Department of! Public.
Health, Berkeley, Calif.
PeeERSOx, WILLIAM F., \I.D:-Chairman,, Department of Obstetrics and Gyne-
cology, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C.
PErrY, TEroItas L.. \I.D.-Associate Professor of'3Tedicine and Head, Division; of
Ptrlnrona:ry Diseases, University ofl Colorado Medical CenterDenverColo.
RaLL., DAVau P.. '%'I.D:-Director, National Institute of EnvironmentaP Health
Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N:C;.
Rn,uscHeR, FRANK J., 1I.D.-Di;rect'or; National Cancer'Institute; National Insti-
tutes of'Health, Bethesda, Md.
RErvKE, WILLIAM A. Ph. D: Professor, Department of'International Health, The
Johns Hopk:insUniversity,Baltimore, 3i'di
RFSzenrr, ATTtr.ro D., Jr., '-NT.D.-Professor of Medicine, PulYnonarv Disease
DiFision Uni'versity o£Utah 3Iedical Center,, Salt LakeCity, Utah.
RoRiss, MORTON-Chief of StudS,, Design and Analysis Staff, R'egionali bTediicaI
Programs Service; Health Services and', 'Mental Health Adtnini'stration, Rock-
ville; Md.
SAFFioTTI,, UhiRExTO, Di.D:-Associate Scientific Director f'or C'arcinogenesis;
Division of' Cancer'Cause and Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National
Institutes of'Health, Betliesda, ntid..
ScHUMAx, LEOSARn! 3T., MID:-Prof'essor and Head, Division of Epidemiology,
S'choot of Public Health, ti niversity of '.Niinnesota, 3linneapolils, Minn.
SHatirxiN, MICHAEL Bl, Jf.D: Professor of Community Medicine and Oncologyy
and Coordinator, RegionaU 3Iedical ProgFam; University of Californiai at Sani
Diego, La Jollas Calif.
STA11LER;, JFRE-MiAH, M.D:-Professor and Chairman, Department of Community
Health and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern: Universi'ts,, Chieago,, Ill.
Va-Ni DLLRE-,, BErJAariN L., JL.D.-Ptofessor of Environmental :lledicine,, Insti-
tute of Environment'al Medicine, New York, University Medicall Center, New
York,, N.Y.
WYNDER, ERNEST L., 3I.D.-President,, American Health Foundation, New York,
N.Y.
The following additional staff members of' the National, Clearinghouse for
S'moking~ and Health: contributledl to, the preparatfion of'this~ report :~ Richard~ H.
Amacher, JTarjorie L. Brigham. E~mi1 C'orwiai; Lillian Davis,,G'srtrude~P. Herrtna
Rbbertl S, Hrtit'chi~ngs, Jennie~~ '.%L''. Jennings, Nancy ~ S. Johnston, Dan, Nemzer,
Mildred Rit'chie, James A. Robertson, I)onald R. Shopland, and Kathleen H.
Smith.,
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CHAPTER I
Cardiovascular Dise~~ases~~

Contents
Intlrodkiction--------------------------------------------
Coronary Heart Disease
Epid'emiologicad' St~udies.
Smoking,and Certain Risk Factlors---_--__------_-
P1ood Lipids~-----------------------------------
Electrocardiogram-------------------_-----------
Experina;en,tal Studies
Cigarette Smoke--------------------------------
Nicotine----------------------------------------
Carbon Monoxide -------------------------------
Smoking and Thrombosis-------------------------
Cerebrovascular Disea.se------------------_-_-_-----------
Peripheral Vascular D2sease-------------------------------
Summary of Recent Cardiovascular Findings------_--------
References---------------------------------------------
List of Figures
Ph:ge
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12
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15
17
19
19
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23
24'
Figure 1. Age-adjiusted incidence rates of CHD' by body
weight and cigarette smoking, (white males)--------------- 6:
Figure. 2.-Age-adjusted incidence rates of CHD, comparing
farmers who smoke cigarettes with nonsmoking farmersL -__ 7
Figure! 3.-Standardized mortality ratios for arteriosclerotic
heart di'sease: for males and females by age at ini'tiatfion of
cigarette smoking (Prospeetive study 1966-1970)--------- 8'
Figure 4.-The effect of' cigarettle smoke inhalation on the ven-
tricular fibrillation threshold'. (VFT) of'~ normal dogs and dogss
with experimentally produced acute myocardial infarction
(A='l2I) ------------------------------------------------ 141
Figure 5.-Effects of smoking five consecutive cigarettes on
plasma nicotine concentration--------------------------- 16
Figure 6'. Relative risk of developing, arteriosclerosis oblit-
erans (ASO). fbr males by amount of cigarettes smoked_-- 20
F~igpre7.-Relative risk of developing, arteriosclerosisobli't-
erans (ASO)! for females by amount of cigarettes smoked--- 2'1.
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Introduction
In the United StatesT eoronaryy heart disease (C1iID) is the leading
cause of death and istiie, largest contributor to excess d'eata'hsamong
cigarette smokers. The following is a brief summary of the major
relationshi'pbetween smokingj and cardiovascul'ardiseases, as outlinedd
ini previous reports of the heaTt'h consequences of' smoking. (62, 63,.
64 , 65; 66, 67') ..
Many prospective and retrospective epid'emiol'ogical studies have
identified cigarettesmoking,elevated serum cholesterol,, andl high
blood pressure as major risk factlors forthe development of coronary
heart disease: Cigarette smoking acts independently of and synergis-
ti~cally.with theother CFiiDrisk factors to greatly increase the risk of
developin~gcoronaryheart disease. The risk of develbping CHIDforpipe and cigar smokers is much less
than it is for cigarette smokers,
but'morethanit.isfornonsmokers. In theLinitedl Stat'es,cigarettesmoking can be considered the maj;or
cause of cor pulmonale since it is
the most important cause of chronic nonneoplastic bronchopulmonary
disease.Autopsystiudies have, d'emonstrated that aorticandl coronary athero-sclerosis are
nlorecomm~oni and sev.ere;and myocardial arteriolle wall
thickness is greater, in cigarette smokers than in nonsmokers..
Those who stop smoking cigarettes experiencee a decreasedl risk of'
death from coronaryy heart disease compared to that of continuing,
smokers..
Experimentlal studies in liumans, andl animalssugge5t thatcigarett'esmoking, may contribute to the
development of CIiD through the
action of~ several inclependent~ or, complementary mechanisms: The
formationi of significant levels of carboxyhemoglobin, the releaseof
catecholainidies, inadeqpate myocardial oxygenation «-hichmay result
from a number of'mechanismsand an inereaseiniplatelet adhesiveness
which may contribute to acut'etlirombusformationi. Thereis,evidence
that cigarette smoking may accellerat~e~thepathopliysiological changes
of' preexisting coronary heart di'sease~ and thereforeeontributes to
sudden deathfrom CHDs.
Recently publishedl epid,emiolbgicalI, autopsy,andl experimental in-
vestigations have added to the understanding of the associ'ation be-
tween smoking ancll cairdiovascular diseases.
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C©rranair,y Heart Disease
Epidemiol'ogicaZ Sturi'ies
SMrOItI,NG AND CIIRTAIN RISK 1' ACTORS
A prospective epidemiological studyof'th~e, factorsasseciatedwitheardiovascular d'iseases:
wasconducted among the4,8I7 white and 2,434black men an~d women of' EvansCounty;, Ga.
Tlteinvestigati~oll
was initiated with a private census and preliminary examinations
beginning in 1960. Followup examinations werecondtlcted after 7
years., C'assell (l3) reported that high blood pressure; elevated serum
cholesterol, and cigarette smoking were major ri'sk factors for the
d'eveloprnent of coronary heart disease. Increased body weight,, an
elevated hematacrit,,and ECG abnormalitlies, were: additional f'actors
that were:associated with elevated CI-DDrates.A significant finding of
this study was the very low prevalence andl incidence of coronary heart
disease (myocardial inf'arction and'anginai peetoris), in black men. The
age-adjusted prevalence rates among black men were only half'those of
white mem The study showed that blacks were affected' by the various
risk factors for CHD'D in a similar fashion to whites but at a lower level
of disease. This appeared to be true for anyy level of any risk factor or
any combination of risk factors. Greater physical activity of'blacks as
compared to .tih~ites appeared to account for part of the observed dif-
ference in rates.
In this study, subjects were classified on the basis of their smoking
histor3~~ at enroldment and both current smokers and exsmokers were
considered smokers, Both black andl white : male smokers had ah~igher
4

incidence of'CII'D than: did nonsmokers; but white males had a higher
incidhnce than blacks whether they were smokers or not. The age-
adjusted~ incidelicerateforwhitenonsmokers was 52:7 per t~housand'
conipared to, 9.8 per thousand' for black nonsmokers, White smokerss
had' an incidence of 101, whereas the rate in black smokers was only
32.5. The prevalence of CHD increased with the number of cigarettes
smoked per day in both groups.
The combined effect of', body weight and cigarette smoking on the
incideneeof C'HD wa& al'so: . examinedl (26)1. The "Queteletindex'" "was used''
todetern2inerelativeweight: The risk of' developing CIdiI),
did not change .vithincreases in relativeweig}itamong nonsmokers,,
butt smokers experienced a substantial risk of' cle.velbping CI-II) withh
increases in weight (fig. 1).
The relationship of smoking to occupat.ion and! CHD was examined!
(14). Farmers who performed sustained physical' activityhadi lower
rates of' ChID than nonfarmers. Figure 2 shows t.ha,t, while smoking,
increased the ri'sk of CI-ID' in both farmers and nonfarmers, farmers'
had lower rates thani nonfarmers whether or not they smokedL
1 Quetelet index= aeight X100.
height,2

Figure 1.-Age-adjusted incidence rates of CHD by ' body weight and ' cigarette
smoking (white males).
160'
150'
140 '
130
120
1' 10
100
90.
" Rate 80
per
1',000
70
males.
60
50
40.
30
20.
1'01
0~l
"Distribution
by weight
Nonsmoker
' Smoker
80
51
Lower third
(lean)
90
30'
Middle third
150'
64
Upper third
(obese)
Number 90 183 99 161 127 1119
Cases 5 15 3 14 16 9
' Smokers excliading ex-smokers.
47 months fbllow-up period!
I 'Based on Queteleti index:.
SOURCE: Heyden,,S., et al. (26).
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Figure 2:-Alge-adjusted incidence rates of CHD comparing; farmers who smoke
cigarettes wlt!h~nonsmoking farmers.
200.
150
Rate
per
1,0000
males
100
50
Farmers
98.3
Cases . . . . (8) (9)'
Nonsmokers
0
SOURCE: Cassel, J!. C., et al. (14).
Nonfarmers
158! 2
(11) (39)
Smokers and
Ex-smokers
j i
Hirayama (27) reported 5-year follbwup: data on smoking in rela-
tion to death rates! from: a large prospective epidemiological study of
265;1118' men and women in, Japan. This investigation was the first of
its kind to be conducted in an Asian population. During the followup
period, 11,858 deaths occurred during 1,269,382 person years of obser=
vation. Male and female cigaret'te~ smokers experiencedl higher mor=
tality rati,esfrom, arteriosclerotic heart disease thand'i'd nonsmokers.Among cigarette smokers, the
mortlality ratios for arteriosclerotic heart
di'sease were 1.56' (P<0.6001) for men and, 11.44 (P<0:05') for women.
Dose-response relationships were found for both men and women as
measured by the number of cigarettes smoked perday and age at initiartion of'smoking ( fig: 3) 1..
7
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Figure 3.-StandardiPed mortality ratios for arteriosclerotic heart disease for
males and females by age at initiation of cigarette smoking, (Prospec-
tive study 195G-1i970).
2.09
2.00 -1
11.50 ,
Mortalityy
ratia
1.00 ~
0:50 -i
0.00
1.00I
Plge at start Mon+
ofl smoking, smoker
SOURCE: Hirayama, lI. (27).
1.52
>24
20-24
<201
Gordon, et al. (22, 57), in a further analysis of the Framingham
data,~considieredbotli by ~univariatle~and mu~ltivariate~analysi~sthe relit-~
tion of certa~inltey-~characteri~sticsto the~devel'~opnient~of coronaru~heartl
disease. The~ characteristics were: Iligliiblood~~pressure, e~lel-at~~edlserumm
cholesterol,~ eigaret~te~ smoking,,lefti~ventricular hy-.pert~rroph~y~ diagnosed
by ~ electroca~rdiograQn,~ andl gliicose~ int'oTerance:~ Cigarette srnoking~
emerged as one of~ the i'rnport'ant risk~ factors for tll~e~ clel-elbpment of
corona~ry ~heart~ disease. There was~ a strong association between c?iga,
rette smoking an~d~ C'FII)~ other~ than angi'na pectoris, particularly
among tiroung~ma~Ue and fema~le~sm~oker.s: The~relatii.Te role~~of~cilgarette~~
smoking as~ a risk~ factor was~ emphasizedi by-~ mliltivar.i'ate analysis.
C~igarette~smok~~ing «as~ not~ as~~strongly ~related~ to~~C'UD in women as:.it~t
was in menL This may ~ hai-.e~ been in part~ due~ tlo~ tlre~ fact~ that there~ are~
fewer~lt~eavy~ smokens~~among~ «-omen~y and~ wornen tend to~i~nhal~e~sniohe,
less than men.
Kagan, et aIL (',3~1)~ reportedlprelirninar.y ~findings from~t'he4lonolulu
Heart Study. The effect of'migration on dietary patterns and the inci-
dence of cardiovascular di6eases~iniaicohort~of ineniof' Japasr~ese~ ances-~
try ~ born between 1900 and 1919. ~who~ were residents of Oa~~h~u in 1965,
~
was ex!am~i~ned in this lsroshective~ stnd~y. I)iiriiig ~~ the 2~ years of~ fol-
lowup, lowuh 101 men developed~ C'fII)~ in the~ population of~H~,U06 ' men i1ri-

le for
apec-
k
f
tially examined~, A significantt relationship to~CI+ID'~ was found for~ the~e
following risk factors : Cigarette smoking, elevated systlolic and di,a-
stolic blood pressure, increased serunb cholesterol~ triglycerides or uric
acid,,and various measures of obesity.
Using data from~ the International Cooperative Study on Cardio-
vascular Epidlemiol'ogy~~,, Keys, et al., (31~) calculate the~~ probabilities~~
for men aged 40 to 59 to develop coronary heart disease in 5 years.
The~ authors notedl " *~ *~~ that tlhe~ relative~ CZTID~~ risk~ of different
men within a given population iswell predicted from the results of'
the~mu~lltivariate~ analysis of~ t'he~experience~ of'men in~ other far-distant
popnlations differing in soeioeconomic, circumstances, language, and
~.
ethni~c! back~ground."~ Althoughi the~ CHD~ incidence rate~ of European
men was~~ about half that of the~ Americans, the~~ fact sti~111 remained
that~ inv~est~igation of the four variables~ (~cigarette~ smoking,, age,~
systolic blood pressure, and cholesterol) was sufficient to identi 'fy
men whose~ 1'ikeliliood o~f~ dying of CHD~~ or~ having a~ definite niyo,,
cardiail infarctlion within 5years .vas~~greatly ~~ abov~e~the~average.
I?'tinsar~~ (51), reported 10-year follativup~ data oni the cohort of~ men
in Finland who ~were~~ pa~rt~of the~seven-countrystudy~of coronary~hea2aiy disease, confirming that
~cigarett,e~smoki'ng was~a ma~jor risk factor for
~
CH'D.~ The authors reported a 1.7-fold increase~ in CHD' mortalit'y
among cigarette smoker.s: They estimated'. that 1,700 excess CHDD
deatihs~~ occur each~ year among ci~garette~ smoking men in~ Finland.
Kozareviic,, et al. (38) reported the results of the initial prevalence
survey~ and the~ 2-year inciden!ce~ data from the Yugoslavian, study~
of cardiovascular disease. A. total of 11,1211 men between the
ages~~ of 35' and 62! were~~ examined in; the~towns of Tuzl'a~ and Remetinec.
C~rit~eria~ for the~~ diagnosis of~ CHD were based on obj'ectiv~e electro-
cardiographic cnrdiographic findings of myocardial infarctiony left bundle branch
block, or sudden death. A very low prevalence of myocardial inflarc~-
tion was initially found, and only 36 new case& of CHD: developed
over the: 2-year period~L The subjects~ who~ developed CHDD smoked
cigarettes~ at~ about the same level' as~ the ~ total study.~ population. T'he~
annual average incidence rate ofl acute coronary heart disease was
about 1.6 per 1,000~~ among, both the~ smokei.s~~ andl, nonsmokers. The ~CIiD ~
incidence~ rates~ found in thisl ugoslav~ian study are appreciably below
t~hose~found in tlhe~LTnited States.
Comstock (T~6) ~~ examiiied the~ associa,tioit between water hardness~~
v~airious~ other~ environmental factors i'nchrding cigarette smoking, and
death from CHD~. A total of' 189 ~~ deatlrs~ from CII'~D, occurred iiii the~
population of Washington C'orulty~., Afd..~ i~n the~ 3~-y-ear,periiod follotiv-
ing aicensus in 19fi.3.~For each case, tw-~o~controls~were randomly sel~ectedd
fiont the ce>>s~us lists and nbatclded for~race;, sex, and year of birth. T'he~
relati~~e ri'sk~ of'('III)for all smok~~ers~ was 1.;i coiupa~red to~nonsmokers~~
(P'G0:05)~. This rellativee risk among cigarette~ smokers~~ was~ dose~-~

related; persons smoking more than two packs a day 4.ad the highest
risk of' CHD. Nla significant association was found between CHD and
water hardness.
Casciuetal. (12'),reportedl the prevalence ofcardiovasculardiseaseamong 4,668I miners on Sardinia.
Smoking and drinking habits, bloodd
pressure, and~ heartratles«ere recorded. Smokers had higher rates
of CHR than nonsmokers,, and a dose-response was noted with the
number of cigarettes smoked per day. The prevalence of'myocardiaii in-
faretion was 0.9 percent for nonsmokers,, 1.62 percent for smokers
of'10 or less cigarettes, 2.34 percent forsmokers of'111 to 20 cigarettes,
9.9 percent for smokers of 20 or more cigarettes a dayandl 1.42 percent
for cigar or pipe smokers. When cigarette srnokers~ were grouped by
alcohol'' consumption, no sign:ificant difference was found in the prev-
alence, of myocardial infarction between drinkers and nondrinkers.
Kornitzer;, et al. (35, 36, 37) examined the prevalence o~fCHDini
566' male bank employees aged 40 to 59 in Brussels. They determined'
an indivi~dual''ssmoking, history, blood lipids, ECG'y peak flow rates,relative weighti, skinfol'd!
tlhickness; and blood pressure. The preva-
lenceofpossibleCHD, as determined byECG' and C'HDhistorywas'.
7.1 percent! innonsnlokers, 11.6' percentlin cigarettesmokers«-ho~ in-haled, 6.9 percent in,
cigarette smokers who did not inhale, 10.6 percent'
in smokers of pipes and cigars, and 15.5 percent in the ex-smokers.
Among the various risk factors examined, the strongest associationn
was foundl for elevations in the serum choIesteroL and the other blood
lipids examined, Weaker associations were found for increasedi rela-
tive weight, high blood pressure, and tobacco use..
Agnese; etal. (2): examined 265 patients in Italy aged 201to 65 years
whohad, myocardial ischemia. P'atientswerematched «-ithi an equal
number of control'sbyage: A number of riskfactorsf'or CHD were
measured in bothgroups.Cigarettesmoki'ngand elevat'ed serum
cholesterol were identified as major risk factors for CpID; particularly
for individualsundhrtheageof50.
Boudik(10)~ found' the prevalence of myocardial infarction to~ be
sign,ificantly (P'<0:001) higher in cigarette smokers than in non-
smokersin apopulatioitof 8;292Czechoslovakianimenibetween thea~ges ~:
of 52 and 67:
Storch, et al. (60)1, Estand7a Cqno, et al. (17)1, and' Jaknszewska
(J0)1instudilesinCermany; l'Ic$ico,,andi Prnlandlof'CHDin indi'vid-uals under the agc of' 40,
reported that cigarette smoking was the
dominant factorini the development of'CHIDin tliese patients.
Golovchiner(21)fiound: cigarette snloking to be a significant f'actorr
inthed'evelopment of myocardial infarction in ai study.of 530 patients
with C~fID in Leningrad hospitals.
no

khest
land
>ease
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,ates
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b'tes,
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ka
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Three studies without control' groups from New Zealand (59),
epall (I~i'), and India (58) reviewed the prevalence of various risk
N
factors, including cigaret't'esmoking in populations with documented
C1I'D:
BLOOD ~ LiruDs
In most of the following studies where the effect of cibarette smok
ing on blood lipids was examined, there .j-as no control for dietary
factors that may indehendently atfectserum lipid levels. Schwartz,
et al. (56) examined serum lipids in relation to smoking habits and
relative weight in 7,972maleemlpl'oyees of the Parisian Civil Service
in the city of Paris. Cigarette smoking, was associated with a slight
but significant (P'<0:001~)i increase in serum cholesterol.Theauthois~
found a positive correlation between increased relative weight andd
seruin ch~o1'esterol' levels, and a negative correlation between rela-
tii'~~veweight and smoking habits.These factors would operatednsuch a
way as to reduce the apparent effect of cigarette smoking on the
cholhsterol levels. After controlling forrelat'ive weight',however,,theinvestigat'orsfound ai
sigpiff'cant(PG0:Q{)1) positiverelat,ionship~ be-
tween smoking and serum cholesterol.
In a study of various factors in relation to the mean serum choles-
terol~ Pincherle (48) examined the followingparameters:blood pres-
sure, height, weight, and skinfold thiiekness,X-rayfi'nd'ings ofl the
chest andl abdbmen the electrocaraiogram and smoking, history;
10;000: Britishbusinesse.xecutives~bet'ween the ages of 25 and 65 wereexamiired. A significant
association «°asfound betweeni elevated serumcholest~erol, obesity, elevated systioli~cblood
pressure, i'nadequatleeYen-
cise,radiogr.aphic evidence of art'eriall calcification of theili'ac arteries,
and certain other factors; The increase observed inimean serum choles-
terol with increasing number of cigaret'tlessmoked was notst~atisticaldys ig i1 ificant.
Romslo (53) studied thedistribtltioni of serum lipids in 324Nor-
wegian military recruits. Cigarettee smokers had ai small but insignipi-
cantiiicrease in serum triglycerides.-No ellevatioir.r.as found fbrserum,
cholesterol. TI he subjects were young, and most smokers had onlyy
smoked for a few years.
Burney and Enslein (111) ~investigftited changes in clinicall laboratory
tests as related to agzitg andl smoking in a 5-year study of 5©2' healthy
niale veterans. Iit was found that five variablles were needed to predict
age-related changes in those over 50. These were: fasting blood glla-
iu
..
.
le,

cose, 2-hour post-glucase blood sugar, total serum protein,,hemoglobin,,
and cholesteroI esters., No significant diifferences, in the laboratory data
between smoking and nonsmoking subgroups were found.
Vlaicu, et al. (70)' examined the interaction of' cigarette smoking
with blood pressure anff serum lipids in 100 patients with angina pec-
toris who were between the ages of'40~and 59. Half'tHe patients were
smokers using more than 25 ~ eigarettes~ a ,day~. The,smokershad lower
serum~ lipids and lower blood pressure t'Iian, the 50 nonsmoking pa-
tients with angina pectoris.
Miturzynska-Stryjecka, et a1'. (43)'~ found that cigarette smoking
immediatelyfoldowinga fatty meal did not significantly alter the
serum free fatty acid, esterified fatty acid, cholesterol,, or plasma tur-
bidity levels over control values.
Ciampolini,, et al. (15)examine'd the e#$ectsof cigaret'tesm:oking
on blood lipid values in 10 healthy volunteers between the ages of 20
and 40. Cigarette smoking resulted in a prompt rise in free fatty acids
and a delayed rise in serum triglycerid'es.
The relationship between cigarette smoking and changes ini various
serum lipiidl levels has not been clearly determinedlStudies in this areaa
continue to present confllictingresults:
E L E C'rROCAEtDI OG4RA M
IV,y?sokinski (76) examined t'he e#Pect of'smokiaZg on certain param~-
eters of cardiovascular function in 100 healthy nonsmokers and 100
healthy smokers who were military recruits 19 to 2.5 years of' age in
Poland. Significant prolongation of the QRS interval (P<0.001), flat-
tieningof tllie! T' wave,and ST segment depression fo11owingexercisewere seen more frequently in the
smokers than in the nonsmokers.
Van Buchem, et aI. (69) examined the occurrence and significance
of egtrasystoles and' conduction disordlers in 760 healthy Dutch men
between the ages of 40 and167 who, were followed far 7 years! The pres-
enceofextrasystoleswas~not correlated with cigarettesmokingore]e-vated serum, cholesterol and was
not associated with the development
of'CHD over the 7-year period.
Kattus, et al. (33) tested 314 healthy males 23'to 82'years of age for
ischemic ST segment depression on the ECGI d'uringor after submaxiL
mal exercise. The abnormal STsegnentdepression identified in301
subjects was correlated signifi'cantlywith elevatedl serumcholesterolym abnornial'' resting ECG,,
and a history of! cardiac symptlomsbutnot
with smoking,,h:ighbloodh pressure., physieali inacti~vity;or faJnily1iis-tory ofcoronarydhsease.
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`'an Buchem, et al. (68) f'ound no significant association between
ci~garette~smok~~ing and i~schemic~ST seg7nent~depression on: ECG~in 120~~
apparently healthy~ men who~ demonstrated this~ abnormality among~ a~~
population of 760 men 510 ~to~~ 70 ~ysars~~ of age~..
Ex pe ri'rrxental ,S'tudies
CIGARETTE SMOKE
Studies in Man.
Summers; et al. (61) examined the effect of cigarette: smoking, onn
cardiac lactate metabolism in 15 patients with, severe angina pectoris
who, had at least 75 percent obstruction in each of two: or three major
coronary vessels. All patients had been long-tlerm cigarette smokers.
Cigarette smoking prod''ucedl increases in heart rate,, systolic aortic
pressure, tihesystolic ejectioni period per minute,, and thetension-tim~e~e index per minute, but
lactate, production was not induced by smoking,
ini any patient who did not also have lactate production in the control
state. In three patients with lactate abnormalities prior to smoking,
inhalation of' cigarette smoke sustained and slightly aggravated this
condition.
Studies in Animals
The effect of' inhalation of cigarette smoke on ventricular fibrillation
threshold (VFT) in~ normal dogsand dogs with~ experimentally pro-
duced acute m3rocardh'a11 infarctioni was studied by Bellet, et al. (6)..
Mongrel dogs weighing 25 to 30 kilograms were anesthetized with
sodium pentobarbital, and respiration was maintained using a Harvard
ventilator~attached tlo~ an endbtracheal tube. In one~group~~ tli.e~electricale impulses used to,
precipitate ventricular fibrillation were delivered
through the chest wall, and in another group the impulses were deliv-
ered directly to~, tlhe~ heart through electirod'es implanted in the ~ myo-
cardium. cardium. The: experimental group of dogs were exposed to the smoke
o£' three~ cigarettes over a~ 10-m!iinute~~ period. Each cigarette~~ contained
approximately 2' mg, of nicotine. With, acute myocardsa~ll infarctiony, th~e~
VFT was significantly (P<0.001), decreased, but in both the normal
and myocardial i~nfarction groups cigaretite~ smoking resulted in a de-
crease crease in VFT that averaged 30~ to 40 ~ percent of~ tihe~ control val'ue~
(fig~.~ 4~)~.~ Th.ese~ findings are~ of interest in view~ ofl the increased inci-
dence dence of sudden deathi observed among coronary patients who are
heavycigarett'e smokers (66).
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Figurei 4.-The effect of cigarette smoke inhalation on the ventricular fibrillation
threshold (VFT) of normal dogs and, dogs with experimentally pro-
d'uced acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
0.7
0.6
VFT
Watt-sec: 0.5 I I
014
0.3
0
SOURCE: Bellbti s;,,et al. (6).
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.:~
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~
Smoking (pormal)
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Control (AMI)
.~
.,
.,
.,
~. SmoKinB~(
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15 30 45, 60! 75 90
Time in minutes following
cigarette smoking
The effects of passively inhaled cigarette smoke on several measures
off cardiovascul'ar function ini treadiniIl-exercised d'ogs were exarnined'
by Reeceand' Balll (52,), The experimental dogs were trained on t'he
treadmblll for approximately 1 year before exposure to, cigarette smoke
began. Each dog was passively exposed to the smoke of' 36'6 cigarettes
over a 3-hour period 5 day s a week in a 2.2 m.3 chamber ventilated at
the rate of'sev.en exchanges per hour., The dogs were exposed to thnss
cigarette smoke and were continued on their exercise program for an
additienali year. Exposure to cigarette smoke was associated with
cadiac enlargement, ST segment depression, and an! increase~ in post!-
exercise serumi lactate concentrations,
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Studies in 1VIan
Isaac~and Rand (28) have recently described a method for the assay
of plasma nicot'ine. An alkali flame ionization detector was used with a,
gas-liquid chromatograph. The test is sensitive to i ng./ml. of nicotine
in a 2'.5' ml. sample; 30 minutes elapsed between end of one cigarette
and start of next. Blood samples were taken before smoking andl at 5,
10;,and 30 minutesaf'ter the last puff of eachcigarette. P'lasmanicotinelevels increased rapidly
during cigarette smoking (fig. 5). The post-
smoking decay curve consisted of' two: component&: an initiall rapid
phase which may be due to the uptake of nicotine from the blood by
various tissues, and a slower phase which may represent metabolism
and excretion~ of nicotine. Some accumulation of plasma nicotine oc-
curred dnring a day of smoking, but the background level never ap-
proached the peaks attained during and immediately following active
cigarette smoking. TI he rate of elimination was rapid enough to prevent.
any appreciable accumulation of'nicotine from 1 day to the next. The
development of' sensitive tests of'~ plasma nicotine levels will allow a
greater understanding of various dynamics ofl smoking. Inhala:tion
patterns can be object'ively measured, and the role of nicotine in
habituation to cigarettes can be evaluated..
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Figure 5.-Effects of smoking five consecutive cigarettes on plasma nicotine
concentration.
60.
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nicotine 40'
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30:
20
10.
01
Smoking period .
0 1 2' 3 4' 5
Time (hours)
SOURCE: Isaac, P. F:, Rand; Wl. J. (28).
Studies in Animals
The effect of nicotine orl regional bloodi flow inn the canine healt was
esaminecli by ~ llh,thes and Rival (/~l~). The effects of nicotli'Qle nere~
examined ill norma~llheants'~and after'partial coronaryalrtiery,~occlilsian.
Unde~ll~ norlnal~ circzlmstances.~ as~ well as aft'er~ infusion of' nicotine ill
~
normal I1~earts,~ the subendocardiad portion of t'd>,e~ myacardizlvn had a
9~.5~-percer~it~ gxeaker~ capilla~ryr floer~ than t~he~~ s>;l£)epirardiil~ fraction.
Partial Ii,),~ation of the coronarv arteries resulted i~n a22:8,perceiit~
rediiction iili left ventric.ulalr blood flow; llowerer,~ the snbendocairdiall
portion reinained S;hz~~ 1>erccnt~ hig-her.~ than in the epicardinnl. After
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coronary~ art'ery~ l'igation an infusion of~ nicotine~ resulted in ai signifi-
cant ( P<~0~.001)~ reduction ih~ t'he~ capillary flow ~ of l the inner portion, of'~
the my.ocardiunl relative~to theoutEr part.
Bhagat; et al. (7) examined the effect of' cigarette smoking on thee
cardiovascular system of d'ogs various pharmacological agents; e.g.,
tyra~mine~hydrochloride,, propranololL and chlorisondamine;~ were~used
to modify~the evokedl response to tobacco~ smoke~ in order to clarify;~the~
mechanisms,prodncing the observed effects. The~authors~concliudecl that
the more important actions of nicotine include a stimulation of sympa-
tlietic ganglia and the adrenal~ Inedul'la and the~~ release of catecholk-
niines~, £t°ont sympathetic nerve~end'ings and chromaff`iit tissue.
Bing, Ilellberg and associates (8; 25) studied the microcirculati'on
of the Ihft~ atri~um~ of~ anesthetized catl& by~ direct, visualization using
iii~gh~-speed cinematography. Nicotine injections~produced a slight but
insignificant increase~ in red cell vel'ocity~~~ in the~capildary.~ eircu~lati~onn
clnring both~systol'e~and di'ast~ol'e.~
The effectls of nicotine on the biosynthesis of various lipidi fractions
in the aorta of dogs were~studiedby~KtYpke~ (.fO). After nicoti~n~eadmin-~
ist~ration. significant reduction occurred in tlie~farmation of free (~1~4C)~-~
sterols, while elevated levels of unesterified fattly, aci~dswere~~ formed in
Hie medi~a, and iiitima of~ these~ in vitro~~specimens. 'I`he~ author sug~~gestedd
that nicotine may impair oxidative enzyme systems possibly by daunag-
ing the rnit-ochondriallstr.uctures, thereby leading to lipid accuQnulationn
in the aortla.
Schievelbein andl Eberhardt (5:/'), reviewed the card'iov.ascul'ar~
actions~ of~ niicotine~and smoking.~
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CARBON MONOYID£
Studles in Man
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Numerous~articl'es hav.e~~recently~been published on the~various,effects
of carboni monoxide on man and anirnal~s~~and are of part~icu~lar interest
because of~ the~ rel~ativ el~y high, leveis~~ ofl carboni monoxide foundi in the
main and sidestream smoke~ of' cirarettles~. O'nly~ those~ arti~el~es~ are~ dis~-
cussedliere whsch, contain data on the~cardi~o~vascular~effects, of carbon
mmnoY lde.
Aronow and I?okaw~ (3) ; examined' the effects, ~ of smokiilM-induced
carboxy-hemoglobi~n levels~ on angina pect~oris in 101pati~ents~with CHD~~..
The~ time ~ to the onset o£'anginai after.~snioking ~ a~ noniicotine~ e.iga~rette~
was~ measured. Tf ach, patient hadl smok~ed more~ than a pack of ciga-~
rettes a da~y~ for at least 19 years and had a, classical, history of exer-
ticonal dssl~~~nea. Smokinr nonnicotine ci~(rarettes failed trn~ resul't'~in an
elevation of the~bloodl pressure or.~the heart, rate~~;~ however, there was,a.
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significant (P<0.01) increase in C'OI3b levels to about 8 percent. This
resulted in a significant decrease in exercise performance compared to
the nonsmoking, state ( P'<0.01i) . This eonf rms that carbon monoxide
can compromise oxygen deliveryy independe.ntly of the effect of nicotine.
1liaximal oxygen consumption under conditions of carbon monoxide
i~~ntloxication~ were~studied in human volnnteers~ by~ severa~t authors (49,
77, 72). COpIb~~ levels ~ of~ 16 or 20 percent~ resulted in~ a proporti'onate~
reduction in maximal Oz consumption. The volunteers responded to the
decrease in oxygen-carrying, capacity of the blood with a tachycardia
and relative~ hyperventil'at~ion,du'ring~~ moderate~ exereise~.~ Carbon m~on-~
oxid'e, producesa limitation of' an ihd~ividua~lFs maximal~~ oxygen con~-
~
sumption by~ deereasing~~ tihe~ availability ~ of ~ oxy gen s~uppl ied under c,on-~
ditions of increased oxygen demand.
Heistad and Wlleeller (ZIf)~ reported that the~ hy~poxia~ induced by~
carbon monoxide inhalation caused' an inhibition of reflex vasocon-
stiri~ctor~ responses despite~ tlie~ presence~ ofl normal arterial oxygen
tension.
Studies in Animals
The effects of carbon monoxide on coronary hemodynamics and left
ventricular function in six u~nanesthetized dogs~ were studied by A~dams,~
etal. (1). The~anirnals~ reactedlto a 5'-percent carboxyhermgl~obin level,
w~ith~ a 14~-percent~~ increase~ in corona~ry~ b~loodi flow. T«-enty~ percent
C'O1Hb~ resulted' in a 57-percent increase in coronary flow and slight
increases in heart. rate and stroke volume.
Birnstingl', et al. (9)' exposed' y oung adult rabbits to 400 p.p.m. CO,
for periods that~~-aried from 6 to 14 hours. The mean COIIb level af.terr
a~ series of~ 2s ex!posures~was 17 percent. A qu~~ali~tlative~ iilcrease~ in plate-
let stickiness,,as measured by the bead-column method, developed dur-
ing~ the 24-hour period following CO exposure. 71'he~aut-laors~observed
that, this " * * provides a possible mechanismi for intimal deposition
and' a further link in~ t-he, association between habitual smok~~ing, and'
peripheral vascular d~isease."'Ast~rup~~ (5)~ foundltlie cholesterol level in
the aorta of rabbits e<xposed' to a low level of'ca .bon, nionoxide for 10
weeks to be;~ onit~he ~average,, 2~~.5~ti mes 1igher t~h~an~ in the control rabbi'ts~..
Both the experimental and control groups~were~maintai~ned'orua higli~-
cholest!erol~ diet.
Oibbons~ and 1litropoulos~ (2r)~ reported that CO~ inhibited cho~~-
lesterol~ biosynthesis with accumulation of' lanosteroI and 24.25-diliy-~
drolanosterol in an ivi vitro system of rat liver homo~;enates exposed
to a 00-percent CO' atmosphere. It was felt that CO may have in-
Huencedl an early step in the oxidative~ elimination~~ of the~ 1~-1«-methy]
group~oflanosterol.
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SDDO$ITTO, AND THRObiBOSIB
Previous reports of the Surgeon General on smoking and health
(62, 63y 64, 65., 66) have reviewed the effects of'smoking on thrombosis.
Recent reviews and studies have not thus far yielded a unifying con,
cept of the effect of smoking,on thrombosis (4;18,1'9,,32, If5):.
Cereiirovascwllar Di~sease
Paffenbarger and Wing (46)' examined several precursors of- non-
fatal stroke in 102' patients with this disease in a population of 10,327
men who hadl attended Idarvardi TJniversity between the years. of'.
1916~ and 1940 and' alsoret~urned' a self-administered questionnaire in
1966. EExamination of university medical records of' these former
students revealed four characteristics present in youth that predis-
posed those individuals who were more likely to experience a nonfatall
st'roke in later life. Theses f'actors were : cigarette smoking,, elevatedd
blood pressure, increased weight for height, and short body stat'ure..
The age and' int'erval-adj psted incidence rates per 1,000 were 10.1 for
nonsmokers, 15.3 for smokers of one to nine cigarettes, and 17.9 for
smokers of' 10 or more cigarettes a day. The relative morbidit'y, ratiosr forthe~ four factors cited
above increased from 1.1 for patients with
only one risk factort'o1L7 for those with any two risk fact'ors,and to3'.2~f'or patients withiany
thre.eor four risk factors.
Miyazaki (44) studied' blood flow in the~ internal carotid artery
using ultra sound techniques: Internal carotid blood flow, was ex-
an7tned under a variety of' experimentall conditions. Inhalation of
cigarette smoke in three individuals aged 27, 67; and 69 resulted in an
increased blood flow due to decreased vascular resistance. This effect
lasted for 10 to 20 minutes follbati=ing smoking.
P'eripheral Vascular Disease
The association between cigarette smoking and arteriosclerosis
obliterans (ASO) ~ was invest'ib ted by Weiss (73). P'atients were con-
sidered to have AS0~ if~ both the dorsalis pedis~ and posterior~ tibial
Pulses were absent in onelower~e:xtr.emity~and~t~he ~examinang~physiciang made ai diagnosis~ of ASO.
Patients~~ were~~ asked the age~ of initiation
of~ smoking:: the dEiil~r~ number~~ of~ cig~arettes~ smoked; the amounts~~
smoked .:it~ages 30,150, and 70;~the~age~ at which they stoppecl sm,oking;~
435-023I 0-73-3'

and, for males, whet'her they srnokedd cigars or a pipe, A total of' 214'
male cases, 206' male controls,,390 female cases; and 913' female controTs:
were studied. The controll group was composedl of patients wit'hh
peripheral vascular problems other than ASO! but who had: dorsalis
pedis pulses present on initial examination. In each age and sex group,
cigarette smoking, was more prevalent among cases than controls. In
both sexes, risks were high for smokers of less than one pack a day,
and increased withi the amount smoked (figs. 6 and' 7). It was esti-
mated that 70 percent of nondiabetic ASO in the Un2tedi States i's
related tothe use of' cigarettes.Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor
for the development of ASO ; liowever; cigarette smoking appeared to
act independently of diabetes.
Figure 6. Relat'ive risk of developing arteriosclerosis obliterrans (AS% f'or mal'ess
by amount of cigarettes smoked.
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Controls 53' 15 26 37'
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smoker <1 pack
day 1 pack
day }11 pack
day
Q.
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' males
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females by amount of cigarettes smoked.
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day
SoURCE: Weiss, w. S. (73).
Preuss, et al. (50) examined the relationship between several factorss
including cigarette smoking, blood pressurei weight, and history of
diabetes and the development of occ.Iusive disease of the peripherall
arteries in a population of 300 patients in Germany. Group Ii consisted
of' 150 patients with a mean age, of' 59 years who had intermittentt
claudication. Most of these patients were ambulatory. The 150 patients
in group: II had a mean age of. 60 years and had far advanced periph-
eral arteriosclerosis with ischemic pain at rest or evidence of gangrene. I
There was no control group~of patients f'meeof'vaseulardisease.Tiherewerefewnonsmokersineithergroup
of patients, butt'hegroup~ with
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the more severe diseasehadi a higher averagpd~aalyconsumptiion of
cigarettesthan did group 1.
The inflnence of cigarette smoking on late occlusion of'aortiofemoral
bypass grafts was examined by Wray,, et al. (75). A series of 100
patients who had aortic reconstruction for aneurysmal or aortoiliac
occlusive disease between 1965' and' 1968 were studiedl Of the patients
who had bypass grafts for occlusive disease, 30 patients smoked' ciga-
rettes and 16 didi not. Late occlusions f romi thrombosis occurred in nine
patients, eachof' whomi was smoking, more than a pack of cigarettes aa
day at thetime the throcnbosis occurred (P<0.5 . The authors recom-
mend cessation of cigarette smoking to alli patlientl& undergping vascu-
lar reconstruction:.
Schmauss and! Arlt (55)1Wilbert (7f,)and Kradj'ian, et ali. (39)
reported a greater than 93' percent prevalence of cigarette smoking, inn
three, separate series of' patients with severe peripheral vascular
disease.
Isacssoni (29) performed venous occlusion plethysmography in 684
meni aged5'5, in Malmo; Sweden. In addition to a detai~led smoking
history, a number of'other f'actors were studied', including,blood pres-
sure, pul'seT height, weight, FCG,heart volume, and blbod lipids. The
plethysmograms were taken on both legs simultaneously with the
patient in the recumbent position. Measurements were taken at rest' and
during reactive hyperemia prod'uced, by obstructing arterial inflow to:
tlh~elegs for,3: milnutleswitha bloodi pressure cuff appliedl to the thilgh.Smokers had a
signi'ficantlyl'ower mean flow capacity (nIF'C')thandid
nonsmokers. The MFC in the legs was red'uced, in direct proportion to
the amount of tobacco consumed per day regardless of the mode
of smoking. The MFC was significantly lower with inhalation
(P<0.001) and with increasing amount smoked (P'<0'.OiDI)..
Matsubara and Sano (4w) studied the effect of cigarette smoking onn
human precapillary sphincters of'theleg using a pressure plethysmo-
graph applied to the calf.. Precapillary sphincter tone n-as~ estimatedl
using the capillaryy filtration~ coefficient, which i's the product of "func-,
tional capillary service area'''and the filtration constant of the capillary
walil. Four healthyy male subjects were tested. All were regular smokers
of cigarettes whohad' not smoked for the previous 24hours; When
cigarette smoke was inhaled deeply at 30-secondl intervals over a 12- to.
15-minute period, there was a 19-percent decrease in t.he capillary
filtration coefl'iei'ent,, indicat'i'ng closure of' precapillary sphincters.
Cigarette smoking also: resulted in a 31-percent decrease in calf'bl'ood
flbw; indi¢ating,some degree of constriction of the arterioles in the leg.
The:pressurevoliumecurvesofthevenous system were notafi'lectecl byy
cigarette smoking.
Heistad and Wheeler (?41)~ esamined theefFect of carbonmonoxidie
on vascular resistlance and refleY vasoconstriction in the forearms of 12
23
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ption of
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', of' 1100'
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atients
d! ciga-
`un nine
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`ing in
'scular
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healthy men 19 to 23 years old. After control measurements were taken,
the subjects were exposed to enough carbon monoxide to produce car-
boxyhemoglobin levels of 118 to 20 or 25 percent. Carbon monoxide did
not cause a change in alveolar PO2 or PCO2. The arterial oxygen satu-
ration was less than 75~ percent, but this decrease did not result in
altered resting arterial pressure nor was there much evidence of'f
sympathetic stimulatiom Carboni monoxide hypoxia did result in aa
significant decrease in vascular resistance in the resting forearm,
(P<0:05')', Carboni monoxide exposure also: resulted in a signifi'cantt
depression of the vasoconstrictor responses of the forearm following
the application ofl negative pressure to the lower body (P< 0:001) and'
of ice on theforeheadLI'tappears thatthe~hypoxia induced byearbon
monoxide causes an inhibition of reflex of vasconstrictor responses
despite the presence of normal arterial oxygen tension.
Summary of' Recent Cardiovascular Findings
In addition to the summary presented in the introduction to this
chapter based' on previous reports of the,heal'th consequencesi of smok-
ing; the following statements are made to:empliasizethe recent deveiop-
mentlsin t'hefield :
1. Recently conducted epirlemiologicall studies from several coun-
tries continue toi confirmi that cigarette smoking is one of the major
risk factors contributing to the development of coronary heart
disease..
2. Epid'emiological evidence suggests that black men in the rural
South, respond to the same risk factors for coronary heart disease,
including cigarette smoking, as white men do but apparently at
lower disease rates; which appears to be in part due to differences
in physical activi'ty.
3. Data from several' epidemiological and experimental studies sug-
gest that cigarette smoking is ai major risk factor in the develop.
ment of peripheral vascular disease. This may in part be due to the
decreased blood flow in arterioles and capillaries assoeiat!ed with
cigarette smoking. Sinoking may complicate the surgicall inter-
vention, in this disease by contributing to late occlusion of the
treatedl vessel. 4. A laboratory test has been developed which accurately measures
nicotine levels in blood. This test will be useful in understanding
nicotine metabolism and can be used as an objective measure of
cigarette smoke inhalation.
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Epidemiological Studies
COPD Mortalzty, dnd:Morbidzty------------------------
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Filter Cigarette& --------------------------------- 37
Pulmonary Function----------------------------- 38.
OCcupationa,l' Hazards
Byssinosis--------------------------------------
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Exposure to Asbestos---------------------------- 41.
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Exposure to Coal Dust___________________________
Miscellaneous Ekposures-------------------------
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Air Polliction '---------------------------------------- 44',
Autopsy Studies----------------------------------------- 45
Experimental and Histopathological Studies:
Histopathol'ogical S'tudies------------------------------
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Pulmonary F'unetion--------------------------------- 50
Pulmonary Clearance--------------------------------- 51
Phagocytosis---------------------------------------- 5&
Bacterial and Mycologi,cal St!udzes'---------------------- 54.
The S'urfactdnt System-------------------------------- 55
Summary of Recent Nonneoplastic Bronchopulmonary Find-
ings-------------------------------------------------
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References--------------------------------------------- 56
List of Figures.
Figure L-Age-standardized percentage of' chronic: sput=
production in males by amount smoked and type of
cigarettle---------- --------------------
Figure 2,-Age-stand,ardized percentage distribution of whole
lung sections of mal'es with moderate to far-advanced emphy-
sema (score 3-9) 1 bysmokingcategory-_--_ _--_--__-_--___
Figure 3'.-Prevalence of emphysemai in adult males at autopsy
by smoking categorY'-----------------------------------
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List of' Tables
PAge.
Table 1.-Percente' prevalence ofl byssinosis for men by index of
severity andi smoking habits (numbers in parenthesis indicate
nunuber of cases in exposure risk group)_________________ 40
Ti able 2.-Degrees of emphysema in current smokers and' inn
nonsmolkers according, to age groups ~ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ 46'
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Introduction
The term chronic : obstructive bronchopulmonary disease (COPD),
as used within this report',; refers to chronic bronchitis and pulmonary
emphysema. The following is a, brief summary of the major relation-
ships between smoking and nonneoplastic bronchopulmonary disease
«hi'ch have been presented in previous reports of' the health conse-
quences of smoking (91; 92; 9394, 9596)!.
Epidemiological, and clinical studies have established cigarette
smoking as the most important cause of CO!P'D in the United States:
Cigarette smokers have higher death rates from pulmonaryy em-
physema and chronic bronchitis and more f'requently have impaired
pulmonary function and symptoms of pulmonary di'sease than non-
smokers; Respiratory infections; are more preval'entand'~ more severe
among cigarette smokers, particularly heavy smokers than among
nonsmokers. Cigarette smokers appear to develop postoperative pul-
monary complications more frequently than~ nonsmokers. The risk
of developing or dying from C.OP'D among pipe or cigar smokers is
higher than that of nonsmokers, but it is clearly lower than that
among cigarette smokers. Ex-smokers have lower death rates from~
COPD than~ do continuing smokers: Cessation of smoking is associ'at.ed ,
with improved ventilatoryy function and decreased pulmonary
symptom prevalence.. Young cigarette smokers of high school age
have impaired ventilatory function compared to, nonsmoking peers.
For most of' the United States population, cigarette smoking is a
much greater factor in the development of COPD than air pollution
or occupational exposure: Cigarette smoking may, however act con-
jointly with atmospheric pollution or occupational exposure to: pro-
duce greater mortality and morbidity from! COPD than would occur
from one exposure factor alone.
A genetic error, homozygous: allphal-antitrypsin deficiency, present
in approximately 1 in 3,600 people in the United States, has been as-
sociated with~ the early development of'e severe panacinar emphysema..
Avai'lable evidence does. not permit a firm, conclusion, about the nature
of the interaction between, smoking and this condition.
Autopsy studies have demonstrated that smokers who die of diseases
other than COPD have histologic changes characteristic of COPD
more frequently than do nonsmokers.,
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Experiments in both animals and humans have demonstrat,ed, thatt
the inhal!ation of cigarette smoke is associated' witli acute and chronic
changes in ventilatory function and pulmonary histology. Cigarette
smoking exerts an adverse effect on the pulmonary clearance mech-
anisms including ciliary andimacrophage function.
The effect of cigaret't'e smoking, on~ nonneoplastic bronchopulmonary
disease has been examined in detail' in a number of recently published
epidemiological, pathological, and experi~rnenta~b stud'ies..
COPD' Mortality and Morbidity
Reid (70) reported that age-adjusted mortality rates from chronicc
nonspecific lung disease (TCD 502, 5261 527) among British citizens~
varied' with migration patterns.British males living in the United
Kingdbmhad~ a death rate of'125~per 100,000, whereas migrants to theI7nited' States experienced a
mortality rate of' only 24 per 100,000;
which is similar to t'hee mortality rate from, chronic nonspecific lung
disease found in the T,T.S:populatien. The possibility that this varia-
tion was due to significant differences in diagnostic criteria was in
part ruled out by the finding that standardized morbidity surveys
of both populations demonstrated differences in morbidity rates that
were similar to the observed differences in mortality rates. The prev-
alence of respiratory symptoms increased in proportion to the num-
ber of cigarettes smoked per day. Cigarette smoking, and air pollu,
tion were identified as the major factors contributing to the real!excess
in bronchitis morbidity experienced by the British in the United
Kingdom.
Freour and'Coudray(g3)inv.estigated the prevalenceof respiratory
symptoms and chronic bronchitis among a random sample of'4,(>(}0 men
and women between the ages of' 30 and 70 who were residents of' Bor-
deaux, France. A stand'ard7zed questionnaire was adhministered and,
measur.ementsofpulmonai:yfunction taken. ZPheprevalence~of chronic
bronchitis increased wihhi age and cigarette°smok~iilg, In each agecate-
gory,, smokers had' more chronic bronchitis than did nonsmokers. Thegreatier t.henumber of
cigarettes smoked per dayand th~egreatert'lie:
lifetime number of cigaret!tes~smoked, the higher was the prevalence of'
chronic bronchitis. C''ondi:ay., et al. (7.3), in ai study of' 1,357 women in
t'he, Bordeaux Study, reported apeevalenceof morning cough of
L12pereentamongnonsmokingwomenand18,;11 percent amongwomaen_who
smoked~.
R.acoveanu.et aL (F6:)studrie,d, thepre.valenceofchronicbronchit!isiit3t?(lresideiitsofa
mountaiiLousregii~n and a low-lyi'lr~,~, delta~area in
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l chronie
`,igarette.
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monary
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.hronic :
itizens
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to the
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itis
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Romania. Both, areasi were free of' air polllation. The prevalence of
chronic bronchitis was higher in the mountains than in, the lowlands,
and although a! definite association between chronic bronchitis and
smoking was found in both areas, smoking patterns couldl not com-
pletely account for the differences observed.
Sev eral papers have been recently pubIishedi (24, 25, 26, .37, 55;100)
comparing respiratory symptoms, such as cough and sputum produc-
tion, among smokers and nonsmokers in different populations. In each
study, respiratory symptoms and disease were more common among
vigarette smokers than nonsmokers. 'Mostof'these studiies (24, 26;37,,
100) demonstrated a dose-response relationship between smoking andd
s}mptoms for the amount smoked as measured by the number of ciga-
rettes smoked per day; the lifetime number of cigarettes,,or the degreee
ofinhal~tion..
Ti he spontaneous development of a~ pneumothorax with the resultant
rollapseof a hzngis often produced by rupture o~f'ani emphysematou's.
ISleb on the pleural surface. Fournier and Zivy (21) rev.iewed 61 cases
of spontaneous! . pneumothorax., Thesmoking habits of these patients
were compared with those of'matched controls. Spontaneous pneumo-
thorax after the age of 25, was strongly associated with cigarette
smoking. Zivy (101) further characterized 40 of'these cases..
FIUIPER, CIGARE=B
The effect of'smoking plain and filtered cigarettes on the prevalence
of sputum production was examined by Rimington (71). A total of'
10,4114 volunteers aged 40 and older were studied by questionnaire and
chest X-ray. Oif' this group, 3;045' smoked filter cigarettes, and 2,393
smoked nonfilter cigarettes. The rate of persistent daily sputum pro-
dh.iction was 31.9 percent in filter cigarette smokers and' 37.2 per-
centin smokers of' nonfilter cigarettes. The difference is significant
(P<0:001). Although there was an increase in sputum productiom
with the amount smokedl in both groups, the difference between filter
and nonfilter smokers was maintained irrespective of the amount
smoked (fig. 1'') ~. The author observed, "While there is no doubt ~that
smokers of' any type of cigarette are 1'iable to d'evelop chronic bronchi-
tic symptoms such as persistent phlegm, itseems likely that those
plain cigarette smokers who are unable to stop smoking, cigarettes
would suffer less if they smoked filterbrandsofcomparablesize."The effect of smoking modified
cigarettes on respiratory symptoms
and ventilatory capacity was examined by Freedman, et all (2°2). Six
hundred men bet'ween the ages of 25 and 54 who smoked at least 10
cigarettes a: day and hadl symptoms of chronic bronchitis were divided
intot~hree equal groups, matched by age, pulmonary function, cigarette
consumption, and cough frequency. The individuals were provided
37

Figure 1-Age-st'andardized' percentage of chronic sputum productiom in males
by arnount smoked and type!of cigarette:
60
0
40
m
0o
.9
d30'
i
a
20,
10
0, Filter cigarette smokers
~ Non-filter cigarette smokers
37:9
32:5
19.7'
47.2
Number of,
volunteers 4,976 382 259 1,095' 878, 1,5681,256
1,256
Mumber witK
sputum
83s,
97'
75
304
304I
571 511
" Mbn+ <10'. 10-19 >19
smokers cigarettes/day cigarettes/day cigarettes/day
1'Includes ex-smokers and nomcigarette smokers.
SOURCE: Rimington, Jl (71).
with test cigarettes "A,"'"I3," or "C " All the test cigarettes contained
1i.f,5mg, of nicotine. "A"dolavered 22mg: of tar,and, "B" and "C"
17' mg. of tar. In addition, "C" had approximat;el'y a 50 percent reduc-
tioniin the vapor phase constit'uents: Those providcd with cigarette "C"
increased the average number of cigarettes smoked! by about 10 per-
cent, where consumption eventually lcveled off: After 4 months, menn
smoking cigarette "C"' began to have lower average cough frequency
scores than the others. Significant changes didi not occur in sputum
production or pulmonary function. The authors observed that, " * *
modification of the composition of' cigarettes and their filters can re-
duce~smokers' coug)i,, an important and early symptom of bronchitis."
PULMONARY FUNCTION
Results of studies of'pulmonary function~ and smoking from several
countries,, including India (65), Turkey (2) Germany (7, 34,.38),. and
Great Britiani (41) indicate that cigarette: smokersi have diminished
average pulmonary function compared& ta nonsmokers. The various
measures of pulmonary function used included vital capacity,, expira-
tory reserve volume, residual vol'u:me, residua~L functional eapacity,maximum: voluntary
ventilation, forced expirat~ory volume in T,
second;and peak expiratolry flow rate.
38
V

Other studi~esin which botli pulmonaryfunction, and respia"atorysymptoms are considered (2'1'; 3Q,
36 43, 59; 69) have again confirmed
that smoking is associated with an increase: in pulmonary symptoms
and a decrease in pulmonary function.
Ex-smokers experience a decrease in the prevalence of' respiratory
sympt'oms and an improvement in pulmonary function compared too
vontinuing smokers, These effects have been noted in several' recent
~;tudies (36; 3'1', 43).
Ulmer (87) condttcted a survey of'respiratory symptoms in al ran-
(Inmlsample of'2;444 individuals between the ages of 10 and 70 years in
I)uisburg, Germany. The prevalence of chronic bronchitis as measured
I,y cough and!/or sputum production in the, morning or throughout the
dayy increased with advancing age and with increasing, cigarette con-
sumption (P<0.001).
Latimer; etl al. (48) studiedlthe ventilatory patterns and pulknonarycomplications of 46 patients
following elective upper abdominal' sur-
gerv. Factors that favored the development of postoperative macro-
atclectasis included smoking, obesityandl prolonged anesthesia.
Teculescu and Stanescu (84) examined several measures of pulma-
nary function in 44 asymptomatic young men between the ages of 18:
andl 29 in Romania. h o significant differences were found between the
smokers and nonsmokers. This may have been due to, the selection of
asyrnptomatic subjects for examination and relatively insensitive meas-
ures ofl early airway obstruction.
uin~ed
.
1 «01
sduc-
~ C6C~f
per'-
!men
ency
ttum
* *
BY3sINOSIs
Byssinosis is a respiratory disease found' in cotton, flax, and hemp
workers. The earliest manifestations ofl this disease are shortness of
breathy coughy and chest tightness. Initially, symptoms occur only
upon reexposure to cotton dust at the beginning of' the work week.
ln more advanced form, byssinosis is associated wi'th permanent and
occasionally severe airway obstruetion which may force the worker
to change his occupation (~3Z);. Abnormalities in pulmonary functionn
tests reflect the severity of the symptoms; however, chest films of'
workers with byssinosis reveal no, characteristic findi'ngs: 1WIcKerrow
and Sehilling (54) first suggested that byssinosis may occur more
freduently among smokers than, nonsmokers. Severall relatively recent
studies have clarified the relationship between smoking and byssinosis.
Bouhuys,, et al. (8) found 61 cases of' byssinosis in 214 male workers
in the carding and' spinning rooms of a cotton milll The prevalence of'
.
Occupational Hazards
39

byssinosis symptons was' higher arnong, cigarette smokers than in
nonsmokers (P'<0.025)'.
Szymczykiewicz; et al. (82) foundl a higher prevalence of chronic
nonspecific pulmonary symptoms among smokers than nonsmokers
in a study of 3,167 cotton mill! «orkers'in Polandi.
An eaaminationi of 500 cotton textile workers by Schrag and Gullett
(75) disclbsed 6'3'individuals.with byssinosis; 57 percent (36 workers)'
of those with byssinosis smoked more than a pack of cigarettes a day,
whereas only 34 percent (152 workers) of' those without byssinosis
smoked this amount (P'<0.001),,
Merchant, et al, (58) conductex3l a study of byssinosis in a yarn
mill i& North~ Carolina;25empl'oyee& «ithbyssinosis wereidentiffed
in a,populatibn of' 441 workers: A scale of 0 to 3(based on5weighted
questions concerning cough, breathlessness; and chest tightness on
Mbnday mornings) was used to indicate the degree ofl severity of'
byssinosis among' the working population. The: effect of' cigarette
smoking on this byssinosis index is apparent (table 1). Among, the
employees with high exposure: to cotton dust,, no nonsmokers had' a
byssinosis index rating over 1, but nearly 18 percent of those.currently
smoking had ratings of 2 or 3. The effect of' smoking' alone on the
hyssinosis index:is significant (P<0:01). Also;,the interaction between
current smoking and current exposure-risk on t!he' byssi~nosisindexis
highly significant (P<0.005). Women in this study: were exposedl to
lower levels of respirablee cotton dust, and among: them no age,, smok-
ing, or exposure-risk effects were demonstrated. Smoking among
males also had a,significanted'!ect on the bronchitisinclcx (P<0.002).
Spirometry results on 131 males and 100 females were categorized by
sex, age, and smoking, history. Among men, the greatest impairment
TnBLE 1.-Percent prevalence of b'yssinosis for men by index of severity
and smoking habits (numbers i& parentheses indicate number of' eases
inexposure-ri,sk group) '
Percentage of subject
Index rating
(see text) Never smokedl Ciirrent,smokers Ex-smokers
(23) (85) (21)
Severe----------- 3 0 14 5
Nfiod'erate--------- -, 2' 0 4' 5
Mild------------- 1 22 26 29
None------------ 0 78 57 62
Tota1------------------ 100 100 100
Source: I4ferchantJ: A., et al. (68),.
40:
b
i

jul'lett
irkers)
a day,
sinosis
I yarn
4ti fie d
Ighted
!ss on
Ity o f
Rrette
g, the
iad a
ently
7 the
ween
O$: is
W to
nok-
long
102).,
d by
nent
Nvas observed among the smokers who, worked in the high exposure-
risk areas. The mean FEV 1 for 66 men in this category was only 76
hercent of' predicted, and their FVC was 900 percent of predicted.
Nonsmoking men in both the high- and low-exposure areas had better
lpulmonary function than their smoking coworkers.
E%POSURE To ASBESTOS
Langlands, et al. (45)' surveyed respiratory symptoms, pulmonary
function,, and radiological findings among, 252 asbestos insul'ationn
workers in Belfast, Ireland. Respiratory symptoms of cough, sputumm
l)rochictionand vvheezing were much more frequent in smokers.. Of the
tests for pulmonary function,,the peak flow rate and forc.ed expiratory
volume at l second were most impaired in cigarette smokers. Although
little difference was reported in the X-ray findings of smokers and'
nonsmokers, smokers of more than 25 cigarettes a day had a 20-percent
reduction in pulmonary function as measured by these tests.
Lungg function and pulmonary symptoms in 1,015 chrysotile asbestos
mine and mill workers in Quebec were studied liy Becklake, et al., (6)i
and McDonald, et al. (53). An analy.sis of respiratory symptoms indi-
cated that shortness of breath was more closely related to dust ex-
posure than to; smoking. However, cough, wheezing, and sputum
hroduction were much more frequent in smokers than nonsrnokers:
Pulmonary function was assessed by measuring, lung volumesi flow
rates, andl diffusing capacity. The best pulmonary function was found
in nonsmokers with low dust exposure tivhzle smokers with high dust
exposure had lower pulmonary function vahxes.
In a survey of' 201 asbestas workers, Regan, et a1L (67) investigatedd
the relative pomcer of' 16'elinicalradiological;,and pulmonary function
variables including smoking for differentiating between asbestosis and
chronic obstructive airway disease. Cigarette smoki'ng, was not a char-
acteri'sticthat could be used to separate these conditions:
FixP03URE 'rO' COAL D'QST
The spectrum of pulmonary reactions to coail dust was reviewed in
a: volume edited by Key, et al. (40). Hunter (33) noted that,eoal miners,
who smokedlexperienced a higher prevalence: of respiratory sympt'oms.
(cough,, sputum production, breathlessness,, and wheezing) and de-
veloped them earlier than nonsmoking miners. Their pulmonary func-
tion tests also tended to sho.v greater impairment than those of
nonsmokers. Lainhart and Morgan (44)reported that coal miners
had an increase in persi'stent productive cough with increasing, years
of exposure to coal dust. This effect was magnified by cigarette smok-
i11g independent,ofl agQor year,sof underground .vork. In an aut'opsy
41

study, Naeye (63) observed more right ventricular hypertrophy and! a&
higher emphysema index in smoking, , miners than iis~ nonstn.oking, min-
ers") Iln commenting on the etiology of pulmonaryreactions incoaI rniit~ersr Lee(4;9)~ felt
thatsm~oking in coal minersprobablyfacilitate,d the~~
develbpment of bronchitis and' emphysema, rather than participating
in the genesis of the characteristic lesion of' coaL workers' pneumo-
coniosis.
The prevalenGeof' chronic bronchitis in~ 3,012 ~ ex-coal miners, and
9,361 nonrniners, of similar ageande social class was examined' by Lowe
and Khosla (51). AIl were employed at tlie tirne of tlie investigation
intwostEel, tivorksin~ South, Wales: The ex-maners, had substantially
more chronic bronchitis and more impaired ventilatory capacity than
the nonminers irrespective of' age and smoking habits. The prevalencee
of' chronic bronchitis .vas 24:9 percent in smoking ex-miners, and 12.0
percent in nonsmoking ex-miners. Tlie prevalence was 18.0' percent and.
7.7 percent in smoking andl nonsmoking nonmiiYers, respectively. In,
this study; smoking appeared to be a more important factor for the.
development ofchronic.bronchitis than coal mining or age.
Haber, eta1~(29): studied cigarette smoking,: dust inhalation, andd
sputum production as, factors, in the etiology of chronic bronchitis
among, 479 coal miners and 166 farmers in Hungary. In both the
miners and the farmers,, there was a significantly higher proportion
of chronic bronchit'is cases among smokers than among nonsmokers,
and, the, proportion of bronchitics increased with the number of
cigarettes smoked: Cigarette smoking was found to be a more im-
portant factor in theetivlogyof bronchitis than dust inhalation.
Lapp; et al. (ly6) examined changes in several measures of ventila-
tory capacity in 93 eoaL miners and 42 nonminers before andi after
a work shift. Following the shift, small but significant decreases inn
ventilatory capacity occurredl among, the miners (P'<O.q5),, while
significant increases in ventilatory capacity~~ occurred among the non-
mi~ners(P'<0.05),. D~ecreases.inpulmonary function tests were related
to the dust exposure of the miners; however, the greatest decreases
in pulmonary function oceurredi among the smokers.
Seaton, eta:l~(7f3') examined severa1' measures ofpulinonaryfuuc-
tion in 214 coal workers who had radaologic evidence of CI`~'P' tiv ith
lung: . opacities that ranged, in sizefrorn less than 1.5 mm. to~ 3 mm. in
diameter. They found no_significant difference in pulmonary function
between the 102 smokers and 112 nonsmokers with: coal workers'
pneumoconiosis.. S~irnilarresultswere reported liy]i.yons, et al: (;52)_.Hyperinflation of
tlielungs~ in_eoal miners was studied by l,lorgan,
et aI.(,6.7');. Residual volumes, total luurg: capaciti~es and_chest X-rays:
of 11,455 working_ Pennsylvania coal miners were examined.T.herela-tionshipbetween radibgi aphic~
evidence~ of coaT workers" pneurnoconi-
osisand lung volumes«as im eat.igatedi Tilcresidual volume in-
:t
a
I
T
fl

phy and' a
king min-
'coa1' min-
itatedi the
tlclpating
~ pneumo}
ners andi
by Lowe
stigation
Itantially
uity than
~evalence.
iA nd 12.0
~ent and.
Iwely. In
j'i for the
ion; and
ionchitis
oth the
'portion
mokers;
pber of:
pre im-
fl,
ventila,
d after
ases inn
while
~e non-
t,elatedd
creases
~ func~-
'' with
nm:. in
nction.
Irkers'
52).
Wgan,
:-ray.s
rela-
iconi-
e in-
crctised with radiographic category, obstruction to air flow, andl
i:rarette smoking.. Each of these factors had a separate and additive
effect that resulted in an increased residual volume.
("lmer (86) examined a random sample of the working populationn
in the Ruhr area of West Germany. 1V}Leasurements were made of the
tntal lung, capacity, airway resistance, and arterial oxygen satura-
tion. All coal' miners had larger total lung capacities tham workers
w it liout dust exposure. Smokers had'significantly larger volumes t!han
nnnsnwkers (P<0.08).
L:upp, et al. (47) examined pul'monaryhemodynamicsin47asymp-
trnnatic coal miners. They were divided into two groups depending
iil)on the absence or presence of' airway obstruction. Pulinonary hyper-
tnsion was more freq,uent in the group with obstruction. The group
P ?3 rnerr (mean age 51 years) without airway obstruction, had an
;t%vrage cigarette consumption of' 17 pack-years per miner, whereas'e the ;*roup~ of 24 men (mean
age56' years), with airway obstruction,
;«-erared 31 pack-years per miner.
f^ com the work of several investigators it can be concludedl that
vigarette smoking is an important factor in the development of re-
sIaratory: disease other than pneumoconiosis, among coal miners (29,
;0, .,61, 47, 51, 61. 86). There is no consensus in recent publications on
what role cigarette smoking may play in the development of coal
wnrkers' pneumoconiosis (1+0; 61, 76)',
N'IISCELLANEOu6 ExP09IIREs
The effect of cigarette smoking, oni pu.lmonary, function in jet Eighter'
l)ilots and crew members was examined by Browning (9). At high
:Lltit.udes,~ 100-percent oxygen i's~~ delivered under~ low pressure to~ the~
;uir(Irew ~ members~~ in order~ t'~o~~ maintain adequate~~ blood oxygEn~ levels.~
'fhe vitall capacity was acutely compromised in flight on the 100-per~-
vv~nt oxy.gQn, mixtu~~re~.~ This~was~~especially ~ true~ under high G~ (,grauity)~
conditioiis. Smokers had a significant inflight volume loss that was
three~~ and one-half times that noted among~, the~ nonsmokers undler~
t hese conditions ( P<U5') . Recovery of' normal vital' capacity foll'ow-
itI,~flight «~as~ also~delayed in the smokers.~
Gregory (?8)~ re~tiiewedi 340 cases of choni'c~bronchitis that occurred
a~moa,ig the en2ployees~ofl the~ Sheffield ste:elworks in England. Smoking,
was associated with a high prevalence of chronic bronchitis, but of
particular interest was the effect of' cigarette smoking on disability.
'I'l~ie~ interval bettiv'~een~ the~ onset of' chronic ~ bronchitis~ and disability
from this disease was~sign~iticant~ly less (P<0.02) for~~t'~hose~~smoking~
niore~ than, 30~ cigarettes~ a day~ than for nonsmokers and~~ for~ t'hosso~
1n1okinr less than this amount (P<0~:02')..
I3atawi (5) examined the prevalence~~ of seve~ra~t diee~ases~ including

respiratory illnesses in 4,64'3' employees in Egypt, comprising a 5.3
percent sample of 92,000 employees in 117' major industries: Respira-
tory illnesses oecurred' more freqpzently in alis segrnents of the cotlton
industry, as well as leather, printing, and glass industries;, 40 percent
of all' employees were smokers, and they experiencedl higher rates of'
respiratory symptoms and illnesses than nonsmokers. Smokers with
occupat'ional, exposure to dhrst werepartiicula rly affected.
The effect of' cigarette smokiulg and' occupational exposure to dust
on the prevalence of chronic bronchitis was examined by Golli (25)
in Romania. There were 2,942'individualsexamined~ of whom 1'42wereempl'oyed in dusty occupations.
Chronic bronchit'iswas present in 24.6!
percent of the 457 smokers and 4.4 percent of the 2,343' nonsmokers
(P<0.001). Increasing age, cigarette smoking, and occupational ex-
posure to dust each independently contributed to an increased prev-
alence of' chronic bronchitisi
.
Recent stud'ies~ in metal castiing,plaster, coke baking,agricultural,,
and chemical industries have documentea a higher incidence of'respir-
atory; sympt'om~sand/ordimi~nished pulmonary function among ciga-
rette smoking workers than nonsmoking workers (4R; 64, 89, 97, 99).
Air Pollution
Rei'chel' andi Ulrner (68, 88) examined the effect of air pollution on
t!lie prevalence of respiratory diisease among 8,162' men and women in
West Germany. The three areas chosen for study had widely d7fferentatmospheric~ levels ~ of sulphur
oxides and particulate matter. The fre-
quencies of' cough and sputum production were the same within the
nonsmokinggroup& in alli three areas. No differences were found in
pulmonaryf'unction or arterialbl'ood gases between subjects,of the
three districts. Smokers in each area had a higher prevalence of res-
piratory symptoms than nonsmokers. The authors concluded, "There
is no doubt' that the influence of air pollution is liessimportant than
that of age, sex, and smoking habits:"'
Tsunetoshi, et al. (85), examined the prevalence of chronic bronr
ehitils,in Osaka,Japan: The independent contri'butionsofage, smokinghabitis, and air pollution were
examined. In male cigarette smokers
using more than a pack a day, chronic bronchitis was three to four
times more prevalent than in nonsmokers. In female smokersusing,
half a packormore, a day, chronicbronchiti& was! frR-etosixt'imesmore.prevadent thani in nonsmokers.
Thestandardh'zedi prevalence of'
chroniebronchitis increased with the degree of airpollut,ion,particu-
lairly sulphur dioxidepollution,, but notwi~tlh increasing levels of
suspended particulatemat'ter.,
44
r

®
yzng ai 5.3:
i Respira~
he cotton
0 percent
~r rates of
Gers with
e to dust
o11i (25)
142 were
yt ini 24.6
tisrnokers
,onal ex-
edl prev-
,ulturaI,
E respir-
1g ciga;-
~
; 99).
t.ion on
men in
Lfferent
'he fre-Zin the
und in
of the
of res-
'There
't than
bron-
ioking
ioke.rs
1, four
using
times
.ce of
rticu-ls of
'If lie Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transporta-
t iil. and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and! Hea1t'h.
oit] v conducted astudy of the lev.elsof certain combustion byprod,
u"ts of tobacco on military and civilian aircraft produced bypas-
_,.»;,Wt-S smoking, andl also asked the passengers for their subjective
nartinn to tobacco~smoke (90).I.evels,of carbon monoxide, particu-
htv matter, poUycyclic hydrocarbons, ammonia, and ozone.vere meas-,
urud on ?0 military and eight domesticflightls. On alll aircraftth~e,,,,;i5ured level of' each
substance was much lower than recommended.
,.-wipaiionai and environmental air quality standards. This was prob-
ihlY the result of the efficient ventilation systems required on all air-
,1r1f t( 3Q exch~anges of eabinair each hour).More than 60 percent of the passengers reported that
they were
bothered by tobacco smoke and suggested that corrective action such
;t; ~~ ~rcgation of smokers and nonsmokers be taken. More than 70' per-
cnt of the nonsmokers who had' a history of respiratory conditions
wereannoyed by tobacco smoke.Th:ediscomfortattributed!to tobacco
IQniolce in spite of! the ~ efficient ventilation systemrnight haverefl'ected
'ro«-ded seating conditions or drying of the respiratory membranes
,diich results from the very low humidity found on most aircraft.
Autopsy Studies
_Vuerbach, et al.(4;) studied the relationship between age; smoking
habits, and emphysematous changes in whole lung sections obtainedl at
airtopsy from~ 1,443 males and 388 females. A tot.alof 7,324: sections
I min. thick were graded on a scale o! 0 to 9 according to the severity of'
euiph`-sema. No distinction was made between centriIobular and pan-
Iobular eniphy.sema~ The men were classifiedl by age, type of smoking
(pipe, cigar;,or, cigarette), and amount of cigarettesmoking:, Smoking
habits were ascertained by interviewswit'h relatives. Within each of
the six smoking categoriies, the mean degree of' emphysemn increased
«ithage. Ad'justingthe data for age revealed that the m~ean degree of'
emphysema was lowest among men who never smoked,was higher in
pi~pe or cigar smokers,, and hiahestamongregtilar, cigarette smokers.
A dbse-response relationship was found for the number of cigarettes
smoked per day andl theseverityofempl7ysema. Table2 and flgure2
show these relationships.
Fingerland, et al. (19) investigated the prevalence of various patho-
logical conditions includingemphysema and chroni'cbr.onchitisin an~
autopsy population comprising all peisons over the age ofl 20 who
came toaut.opsy over a 2-year periodl ata',theInstitutaof1P'athol,ogical.
_YiiatonYyiir Czechoslovakia; 765 malesandi Ci7:1femalesn ere included
45

in the study. Smoking histories were obtained, frorrli patients before
death, medical records" or relatives,The smokers were divided into,
three groups based upon the number of cigarettes smoked during their
lifetime';, 26 percent of the male nonsmokers showed some evidence of I
emphysema, whereas 70 percent of male smokers of more'than 500,000
lifetime ciga'rettes showed these changes (fig. 3). Similar relatiienshi~ps' ~
were demonstrated for chronic bronchitis:
I
TABLE 2:-De9rees of emphysema in current i smokers and in nonsmokers '.
~
according to age groups
e
d d
f
A Subjects
wh Current
i Packages smoked per day
group an
egree o
g
emphysema (see text) o never
smoked
regularly pe orr
p
cigar
to 1
1 to 2
?2'
<60':.
0 to 0.75---------- 53' 18 12' 3' 2' 0
1 to 1.75'---------- , 2 11 4' 91 24 5
2'to 2.75---------- 0 1 2' 1'7' 130 56'
3 to 3:75---------- 0' 1 5 12' 50 38
4 to 4'.75---------- 0 0! 0 4 8 7'
5 to 6:75---------- 0 0 0 0 4! 5'
7 to 9:00---------- 0 0 0 0! 3' 1 1 '
Totals---------- 55 31 23 45 221 11'2I ~'
Mean----------,--- ., 10 . 83 1. 29' 2.,37' 2.56 2: 86 ~
'--------------- .04! 13 .26 . 16 .07 .10 ~
60 to 69:
0 to: 0:75---------- 35 17 4 0 0~ 01
1 to 1.75---------- 11 8' 1 0 4 1 I
2 to, 2:75---------- 2' 3' 4 5' 37' 23
3 t'o13.75---------- 2' 2' 2 9 42' 24
41 t'o 4.75---------- 0 0: ll 3 11 9
5'to 6.75---------- 0 0: 0 1 8 1
7'to 9.00---------- 0 0 0 1 5 4
Totals----------- 40 30 12 19 107, 62'
Mean------------- .39 . 95 1.90 3.59 3! 39' 3.37
SD--------------- . 13. . 16 .34 .35 . 15 . 20~
70 or older:
0 to 0;75---------- ,
68
21
2
0'
0
0.
1 to 1.75---------- , 4 28' 10' 8 2 2
2'to 2!75---------- 5 22 13 23' 40 9
3 t'o 3.75---------- 4 8I 5 10' 38' 18'
4'to 4.75---------- 0 2' 1 7 11 7
5'to 6.75---------- 0' 1 0 2' 9 3'
7 to 9.00---------- 0 0 0 1 12' 5
Tot'a1s ---------- 81 82 31 51 112I 44
Mean------------- .50 1.66' 2. 15 2.98 3.68 3.91'.
SD~--------------- .39 .11 .17 .20, .17' .27
I SubJ@cts who smoked regularly up to tima of terminalitllness.
Source: Auerbach, 0., et'ali (4).
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i
hts before
rided intfl
ring their
~idence of
n 500,0001
tionships
Figure 2:-Age-standardized percentage distribution of whole lung sections of
males with moderate to far=advanced emphysema (score 3-9), by
smoking catiegory.
60
51.9'
50 ~
40'
.
Q
m
0
c~ 30
~.
0
a
20
10,
7.5
36.8
Number 6 14 64 323
of Never Pipe C~igarettesmokers
cases smoked
regularty or
cigars <1 pack/day } 1 pack/day
0
1
23'.
24
9
1
4
62
3.37
. 20
2
9
~ 1&
7
3.
a'
44
3! 91
.27
SOURCE: Auerbach, 0., et aIL (4).
Mitchell, et a1. (60)1 conducted a study to determine the accuracy
of' the recordedd cause of death on death certificates of' adul'tls; 578
autopsies were performed on patients 40 years of age and older at two
large hospitals in C'oiorado. In addition,,409 patients with COPD were
enrolled in an, emphysema registry. Autopsies were performed' on the
56 patients who died during the study period,Death certificates were
obtainedl from the State Health Department, and the reeorded cause
ofl death was compared' with, theautopsyfiimdings.I[n, 211 of'the634
autopsies performed, the cause of' death was found to be CO!PD ;, how-
ever, in only 160 of these cases (76' percent) was COPD listed as the
cause of death on the dleathi certificate; 3 percent of death certificates
incorrectly listed' emphysema, as a cause of death when this was not
supported by autopsy evidence. The authors concluded their study by
suggesting " **' that nationall statistics, which are based on non-
autopsy confirmed diagnoses; might understate deaths fromi chronic
bronchitis andi`emphysema"'''
47

Figure 3.-Prevalence of emphysema in adult males at autopsy by smoking
category.
80
70.
60'
50,
30'
20
10'
01
Number autopsies 145
Number w/
emphysema, 38
184
66
236
139
60
42'
109
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Non- Number cigarettes smoked, during life Ex-
smokers <a00;000 200.000-500:000 >500;000, smokers
SOURCE: Fingariand, A., at aP. (1'9):
Experimental and, Histopathalogicali St!udies
Flistopathologicol Stzrd'ies
StudilesiniM'ani
Naeye and Dellinger (63) exarnined the small pulmonary arteries
of' 126' male cigarette smokers and 67 nonsmokers for quantitative
changes in collagen, elastic tissue, and circularly and; lbngitudinally
oriented smooth muscle.Theyfoulida prog7essive~increaseincollkgen~
48

48.62 ! I
109
53
Ex-
Molters
eries
Itive
ially
Igen
And longitudinally orientedi smooth muscle fibers and a progressive
,lecres.se in circularly oriented muscle fibers with age. These ehanges
tverc more advanced, at each age in smokers than in nonsmokers
(P<0:01).
Sobonya and Kleinerman (78); quantified the smooth, muscle and
nwucous glands in the bronchi of 13'male cigarette smokers and 11 male
i,vnsmokers from, Ohio who were 18 to 46' years olld' and had died of'
uoilrespiratory causes. The smokers averaged 24 pack-years of ex-
posure. Although the smokers had a history of more respiratory
syanptoms and colds than the nonsmokers, no difflerence was found in
r}iepereentagesof l smoothrnuscleorbronchial gl'andsbetween smokers:Ind nonsmokers. Five of the 13
smokers showed evidence of squamous
mctaplasia.
1C~~Zlefsen and Tos (17) determined the goblet cell density in tracheall
hiepsiesfrom~ 50 patients with respiratory symptoms or disease. Goblet
, v Ll density increased with symptoms of tracheobronchitisandl history:
of exposure to dust. A slight increase was also noted in mean gobletrell density with increasing
consumption ofl cigarettes from~ 136 in.
,yanptomatic nonsmokers to 154 in smokers ofl more than a pack: a day.
Studies in Animals
Syzganov, et al. (81) exposed 55 dogs to cigarette smoke inhaledl
through tracheostomas for periods of up to a~ year or longer. An addi-
tional' 15 dogs served as nonsmoking controle. The smoking animals
,l'eveloped bronchitis, bronchopneumoniay interstit'ial pneumonia and
hyper.plasia of the bronchial epitheliurn~, Later histologic changes in-
vluded squamous metaplasia and papilloma formation not found in
controls:The effect of sulphur dioxide (SOJ and cigarette smoke on~ the
mucous glands of rats and the bronchial glands of lambs was studied
by Mawdesley-Thomas, et a1.(57) . There was a slight increase in the
goblet cell count of rats with the inhalationof SOz and cigarette smoke.
Exposure of lambs to cigarette smoke inhaled through a tracheostoma
resulted' in hypertrophy of t'he~bronchi'al glands..Jones, et al. (-39)' foundl that the addition of
phenyTrnethyloxadiazol6
( PllO ) to tobacco protects rats against some of the adverse effects of
exposure to cigarette smoke., Two: groups of" 15 Sprague-Dawley ratis
Were exposed to 25' cigarettes a day, 4 days a week for 6 weeks. The
group exposed to cigarettes containing P.l'LO' showed less immediate(listtess~after exposure and
hadl a lower tracheal goblet cell count,lessthiicl,eningof t.hetrachea~l epitheliumy and fewer
cellsin mitosis,than,
those exposedl to theregularcigaret'tes.,
The response of tllierat lung to low levels of nitrogen dioxide (NOz),
,L1 constituent of eigarettesmoke,, was studied by Stephens, Evans; and
49

their associates (l8y 80). Young male rats were continuously exposed
to NO2 at concentrations of 2 p:p.mL andi 17 p.p.mL for 1 year. Animals
were sacrificed after a short exposure and also at regular intervals over
the 12-month period. At the level of 17 p.p.m., destructive changes '
occurred int.he respiratory epit'heliuni within 4 hours. Thesechanges4
inclluded cell hypertrophy, loss of cilia, and increased mitotic activity.
After 24 hours of exposure att.his levell some repair began, but cuboidal'
ce11sreplaced the normalrespiratory epitheli~um. At 2p.p.m.the,aeute :damage was less severe; and
complet'e recovery occurred over ai period' '
of several weeks.
Sherwin, et al. (77) studiedl the effectoflowdosesof' NO~,, on ths~al~veolar wall cells of
thegiii~nea pig~ TheyfouQadl that'coitinuous `.
exposure of 2 p.p.mLNO~ produc:ed!a significant increase (P< 0:05) in ,
thelactate dehydrogenase (LDF'I)~ index of'tlhelower lobes of the lung,
suggesting that the~~ultrat'h~in~ t'ype~11 (;LDH~positit-.e-)~ alveolar w~all cells
were being r.eplaced' by rel!ativelyy thick type 2 cells i.esulting, in a
physiologically significant~ blood, gas~ barrier.
Pulmonary Function
Ingram andi O7Cain (35) studied dynamic compliance in nine smok
ers and nine nonsmokers under the age of 30 who were in good' health.
Both groups were identical with respect to airway resistances, 14ing,
volumes, maximal expiratory flow rates, and static compliance values.
Dynamic compliance: felli more rapidly in the smokers than in the non-
smokers above a freqtiency of 40 breaths a minute.. The d2fferenceff was
statistically significant (P<0A001). Isoproterenol producecll no sig-
nificant increase in dynamic, ¢ompliancein eithert'he, smokers, or the
nonsmokers. In six of the smokers who stopped smoking, the dynamic
compliance curv.es gradually approached the values of the nonsmokers
over an 8-weekperiod. Changes over this,relatiwely~ long,period of'ti~meindicate thatl the decrease
in dynamic compliance observed in smokers
was more likely caused by inflammatory changes or some other mecha-
nism rather t'hanmuscular constrict'ion in the bronchioles. The authors
conclude& t.hat' peripheral' air«-ayabnormali'ties, are, regularly present
in young asymptomatic smokers.
T!'he effect of cigarette smoking on pulmonary d7ffnsing,capacity, was
studied' by Van Ganse, et' al. (98). Difl'!usingcapacityis depend'entupon upmembrane component,
which istheresistance offered' by the
lung tissues,, and the volume of blood in the lungcapill'aries. 5tudieswere conductedon14'2
randon7ly selected residentsof. Berlin, N.H.,
over t'lie~ age.of25.Ii'i1 both meit Zndwomen,,tlsere was a decrease in
d'aff!using ca.pacityy for carbon monoxide w°ithani increase in age and
50
3.

Rly expose
tx. Animals~
ervals over
~e cha.nges~
se changes~
ic actlVlty
it' cuboidil
~ the acute
r a peribd
OZ on the
Dnt!iaiuous
< 0:05), in.
the lting,,
wall cells.
>ing in a
le smok-
( health.
es,, lung
i values.
he non-
nee was
no sig-
t or the
ynarnic
'tnokers
of time
tnoke rs.
mecha-
uthors
)resent
ty was
mdent
)y the
;ud2es
ise in.
~ and
n-ith increases in cigarette smoking. Ex-ci'garette smokers tended to
lrax-e results siinilar to: those of nonsmokers. The authors found that
the mebrane component did not show any consistent change with in-
creased current cigarette smoking, whereas the volume of blbod in thelung capillaries decreased
markedly with increasecUcigarette consump-
tion, and slightly with age. The value ofl this vascular component in
n1ale nonsmokers was 75A Thi's decreased1o.49:1 in males who smoked
.
~:~, or more cigarettes aday' ( P<0:01I). The figures for women were,
77.2 and 50.7 for nonsmokers and smokers, respectively (P<0.05).
Acetaldehyde is found in cigarette smoke and is a known ciliatoxicc
at,rent'.., The single-breath retention of acetaldehydevapor by the respi-ra.torv tract of human
subjects was,measured by Egle (16')~ who:foundl
:l dlirect rel'iationshipbet'weeirthevolume inhaled and'thepercenttakenup. L'p~ to 00 percent of the
inhaled acetaldehyde was. removed in a
4inr;le breathL,
Stanescu (79)~ studied thesingle-breath oxygen testin: 38 male
smokers and 68malenonsmokers who werein excellent,health:A sig-
nificant difference (P<0.001) in the, slope of the nitrogen gradient
between smokers and nonsmokers was f'aund.Teculescu~ (83) performed single-breath dieterminations
of'total lung
capaci ty ini 89 males, aged 19 through 6'7who: . had normal chest X-ray&
and no history of respiratlorydi'sease. Nosigni'ficant ditl'erenceswerefoundlwithageor smoking
habits.
Pulmonnry Clearance
Studies in Man
Tracheobronehial clearance rates werestudied i'nniine pairs of'mono-
z~~-gotic and nine~ pairs of~dizygoti~c,t.v~ins by~Camner,, et al. (1~~)~~. A test
aerosoll of'r.adibactively ~~ tagged teflon parti~cles~ 6~ tlo~ 7~ microns~ in diarn-
eten~ -,vasinhaled and external nieasurements~ of radioactiv~ity~ ii7~ thee
huigs~were made. Tlleclearance patterns wit'hin pairs of'monozygotic
twins~ were similar,~ more~ so~ than cl~earance~ patterns~ within pairs, of~
diz~i-gotic,tivihs indicating ~ that tracheobronch~~i'al clearance rat'es~ may
to~some extent be,constit'u~~tiiona111y.~determidied'~. Only~one~individ~ual had
been a re~*ular cigarette smoker.
Camner and Philipson (10) also~stludied tracheobronchial elearaauce~~
in~ s3uokinr-discordant twins, using~the~sametlecluiiques~ as~in tlhe~pre-
vibus studv; 10~ paiirs of~ monozti'gotic twi:ns~~ discordant with regard tlo~~
cigarette smok~ing, w,ere, studied. All the~ smokers~ had usedl M to~ 20
cil,rarettes a day ~ for more than 2~0~ years! Tr~ach:eobronchial clearance
was, on tili:e average,~ significaQitly,~ (PCtY.02), slower in the~ smokers~
495-07.8:0-73~-- a5.
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than in the.nonsm:okers: Although the basic rate of mucociliary trans-
port may be~ eonsti~t!ut'iienally~ determined, it is~~ evident that cigarette-
smoking, decreases the effectiveness of this physiologic rnechanismL
The regionall deposition of inhaled aerosols in lnan was studied' by
Lippmann, et al. (50) who used a monodisperse ferric oxide aerosoll
tagged~ with: ai radioisotope. Particles~ were~~ deposited, in~ the ph~arynx~~,,
trachea. bronchi, and alveoli. Measurements were made in 65 ' adultls
including 14 nonsmokers, 29 current ci~garette~ smokers, six~~ elderly
bronchitic~ patients, and' one~~ young asthnaatic. Larger~~ part-icles~~ were
deposited in the ~~ upper, a~i'rw~ays~~ by~~ t~urbulent precipitation with only~
the srnall~~ particles~ of ' one to~ five~ micron size reaching, the~ lower air-
ways. The cigarette smokers, bronchitics,~ and the asthmatic had a
higher proportion of particlps~ deposited' ini the t.raclleobronchial area
than nonsmokers. As a result, fewer particles reached the alveoli in
t~hese~ patients. These fi~ndings~ may be, the result~ of~ a decrease~ in the~~
diameter of' the~ small bronehioles~ d~u~e~ to~ iutiarnmation,, mucus;~ or~
b ronchoconst riction.
Albert, et, al. (3~)~ stud~iied' the~ effects~ of' cigaret~tle~ s~moking~ on the~
ki~netiics~of'bronclYial clearance in a group of volunteers~~most of~whom
also ~ part.i+eipatedi in the~ previious study~. A two-phase clearance pattern
was described for many subjects. The first, a short, rapid clearance
phase, was completed, within a few hours and' probably represented
clearance of the upper airways. The second phase varied in durationi
from al few hours to 1 day andi represented, clearance of particles
deposited in the distal! portions of' the bronchial tree. The aueragee
clearance time wasJ2~6~ minutes in ~ 15~~ nonsmokers, 170 minutes~ in 1LRof'
the~ smokers,~ and~, 238 minutes,in the~ six patients ~ with bronchitis, most
~
of~whom~h~ad~beenihea~vycigarett~e~smokers formany~years. 1lfucli vari-
ation in clearance rates was found among smokers: Ciaarette smoking
resulted in diminished pulmonary clearance~~i'n the upper~ai'rway-s~first~..
As a, result, mucus~ cleared from~th~e, lbwe~r a~irw.ays~ accumulated in thQ,
larger airways where stasis occurred. Iin severe cases, stasis was more
generalized throughout the bronchial tree..
Sanchis, et al. (7~.) also studied lung,clearance mechanisms in nine
adult ~ fernales~ who1a~d smokedl rnore~~ than 15~~ ci~~garettesa~, day for more~
thani 5 years andi who had no evidence of bronchitis or respirator3~~
disease. A ~ group~~ of nonsmoking, females~~ matched~ for~~ age~ servedi as~~
controls~. A heterodisperse aerosol of I'"l' taggedi human albumin was
i'nhaled by the volunteers, and measurements' of radioactivity were
made over three crescentic areas of the right lung, which corresponded
to: largeci~liatedlairways; intermediate~bronchi,~and noncili~~ated periph-~
eral~~ airways~ and alveoli. Cigarette ~ smokers exhibited a~~ sl~owing,of'' the~
rapid clearance phase of the large ciliated airways and also a relative
aeceleration in~ the second clearazice, hhase: resulting in~ air a~ccunlula-~
tioni of activity at~ the~ li~ilar area. Comparing the~ clearance~ among~
52

r trans-
!arette-
M
aed by
Lerosol
krynx,
adults
Tderly
' were
k only ir air-
had a
!' areaa
o1i inn
n the
is, or
n the
Phom
~tern
~ance
inted
ition
,icles
rage
'9' of'
nost
rari-
ting
!tlie
lore
aine&
tore
;or3.
11 as
n-as
'ere
ied
ah-
,'he:
i ve
la-
ug,
smokers andl nonsrnokers; the authors found that the nonsmokers re-
tained' twice as much activit'y, in the lung at t'~heend of 24 h:oursasdid
the smokers., This finding resulted from the deposition of' much more
rnf' the aerosol distal to the ciliated airways in nonsmokers than ih
smokers suggesting that seemingly healthy smokers may have.obstruc-
tion of the small airways.
Chmner, et al. (11) examined'the short-tlerm effects of heavy cigar-
ette smoking,on mucocil'arytransport',using the same meth:odsas,in his
previous ~ studies (1,0,12').Thesubjects were13men aged 27t'o38'.wholia~d been habituadl smokers for
severaly.ears. B'aselineclearancerates%vere measured after refraining from cigarette smoking for 1
hour.
'The subjects then repeated the test but were instructed to "chainismoke"bi, inhaling thesmoke as
deeply. and as freqpently as possible; but
%vitllout coughing. Subjects smoked much more intensely than under
iaormal circumstances.The speed of mucocilary transport was sig-
uiEicantly higheirduring, int'ensiveeigarette smoksng than wheni they
\verenot smoking (I'<0.01).Theseresu~lts differ from the results ofot.ber investigators.. The effect
of the deep regular inhalation patterns
used during the period of heavy smoking on cllearances rates remains
uncertain.
Studies, in, Animals
Rylander (73) studied the effeet of cigarette smoke on the clearance
of radioactively tagged particles and viable bacteria in the lungs of
114 experimental and cont.rol g,uinea pigs. The clearance of' parti+eles
ineasuresmueustransport whereas the clearance of v.iabl'ebacteriai is a
li),tirtiali indicator of phagocytic activity. Inhalation of smoke from
1igarettes~ .vith varying levelsof"`'tar" resulted in similar decreases in
Wt:h the mechanical and bactericida~ll clearance. In each case, the me-clianacal clearance appeared
to be affected earlier than thebactericidal
clearance. When phenylmethyloxadiazole (PnZlp) .t-as added to the
tobacco, neither the mechanical norba~ctericiidall clearance was affected
lhy cigarettle smoke.
Dalhamn and Rylander (14) alsoreportedthat phenylvinyloxadia-
zole (Pti"O), and phenylmethyloxadiazole(RMO)',when ad'dtd totobacco, were effective in reducing
the ciliotoxic effects of cigarette
smoke in in vivo cat trachea preparations.
Phaqocytosi s,
Rylan&r (72~~)~ st-udiedl the effect of aeute~~ and chronic~ exposure to~
«igarette~ smoke~ on the number of alve.ola.r macrophages~in the~ guinea
[>ig: Acute exposure to t.he~ smoke~ ofl fiv.e~ or more cigarettes,~ resulted in
53.
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0
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a significant (P<0.05) reduction in the number, of al'veolar macro.
phages. With more prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke, an increase
occurred in the number of alkeol'ar macrophages over control values.
~
The effect of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a, compound found in cigar-
ette smoke, on alveolar macrophages ini rabbits was studied by Acton
and ltifyrvik (1). Phagocytic activity and virus+induced'resistance to
rabbitpox virus were: suppressed byexposuretlo 15:p.p.m.of NO~, overai 3~-hourperiod.
Bacterial and Mycological Studie8
The prevalence of'fungi ini the throat was examined by Martin,,et al.
(56) in a population of'365 male and 103 female European patients in
South Africa whowere hospitalized for a variety of conditions. Throat
swabs were taken shortly after adh-rission and plated on appropriatee culture media. The yeasts
isolated were Rhodotorula mcilaginosa,
Torulopsis gjabrata, and seven species of Candida. A seasonal, varia-
tion inn prevalence was noted with a decline in the winter andi with
peaks in the spring and summer. Smokers of more than 30 cigarettes a
dayy had a higher prevalence of pharyngeal fungi than nonsmokers or
tllose smoking less than this amount. No effect of'age or disease category
on the prevalence of pharyngeal fnngi was found.
The bacterial flora in respiratory tree secretions okitained' at brom
choscopy from20'7patients with chronicIungdisease and 48 controls
were characterized by Dobisova. et allin a study from Germany (15) 1.
No relationship was found betweenismokingo~rseveritlyof respiratory.symptomsand tliecomposition
of'thebacterial flora. They also reported,
that smokers ~ comprised 84:6percent of those with chronic cough but
only 58.3 percent of the controls.
The effect's,of nitrogen daox~ide and cigarettesmokee on the, retentionn
of inhaled bacteria were investigated by Henry,et al. (32). MalegoIdeni
hamsters were exposed to an aerosol of IClebsiolla, pneumoniae follow-
ing exposure t!o, NO., and/or cigarette smoke. A control group was ex-
posed to the pathogen without pretreatment. Acuteexposnre toeitherNO:or eigarettesmoke resulted in
ann increased mortality and de-
creased survival tinie f rom Klebsiella infections. Exposure to both NQx
arldl cigarette smokere-duced the rate of clearance ofc.iable bacteria
.
froni the lungs t!o~ a;leater extent thani exposure to either substance
alone. Theinrreaseiln lettiall effects of Kaebsiella exposure, may have
resulted~ from inhibition oftliemucociliarytransport system or reduc-
tion of' phagocytic capacity of tliealvenlair niacrophages.
54

I macro-
erease
valizes.
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Acton
lnce to
`~, over
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nts,in.
hroat
n iat,e
osa,.
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i
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kc-
T1ie Sur f actant System
Finley and Ladman (20) measured, pulmonary surfactant in ciga-
rette smokers and nonsmokers. The surfactant was recovered after en-
~lohronchial lavage.The lipidl content'of surfactant in smokersands nonsmokers was qualitatively
similar; however smokers had oni the
average only .14.3 percent of thesurfactantlevels found in nonsmokers.
"L"heir levels of su.rf~actant ret!urnecl' promptly to levels found in non-
smokersfollo.ving cessation of smoking.. Cigarette, smoking m~ayre-duce the quantity of surface
active material lining t'healveolarwall's,
through either, decreased production,, ani increased removal,, or a ,dilu-
nion with mucus1rom the airways.
Summary of Recent Nonmeoplastiic, Bronehopulmionary
Findings
][n, addition: to the: summary presented in the introdkiction of this
chapter, based on previous reports of'the health conseqpences of'smok-
ing, the follbwing statements are made to emphasize the recent develop-
ments in the field :
1. Epiderniologic.al andi clinicall studies from several countries con-
firm that cigaretlte smoking by both men and women: is associated
with an increased prevalence of respiratory: symptoms and de-
creased pulmonary function compared to nonsmokers.
2:The regular use of filter cigarettes is associated with less cough
and sputum production eomparedd with the regular use of' non,
filter cigarettes.
3! Cigaretite smoking in combimation with certain occupational ex-
posures is associated with: a higher prevalence of respiratory
symptoms and CO!PD than is observed with either cigarette
smoking or oecupationaI exposure alone. By?ssinosis is found more
frequently in cotton mill employees who smoke cigarettes than
in nonsmoking workers.
4.Recentautopsyst'u~dies, confirm that pulmonary emphysema, i&
much more frequent and severe in cigarette smokers than in
nonsmokers.
5. Several recent investigations have confirmed that cigarette smok-
ing exerts adverse effects on pulmonary clearance and rnaero~
phage function.
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Introductiom-------------------------------------------- 67
ILiing Cancer-------------------------------------------- 68.
Egidemiologieal St2idies-__-____________________-____-_ 68'
E'x-Smokers----------------------------------------- 71
Lirdnium, Mining and Exposure to RadioactivztV _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ 72'
Air Pollution---------------------------------------- 72
A'sbestos-------------------------------------------- 73
au,topsyand Cytol'ogical SGudies-__--_-_____-__-___-____ 73
nral Cancer -------------------------------------------- 74
Cancer of't.he Esophagus_________________________________ 76
Cancer of t'he Larynx ------------------------------------ 76
Cancer of'the Pancreas___________________________________ 77
C aneer of the Kidney andl Urinary Bladder_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 77
E_.perimentall Carcinogenesis-__________________________-__ 78'
R'espzratory Tract Carcinogenesis'_ _-- _ _- _ _ _ _ _ _- _ _ _ _ _ _ _- _ 78'
Experiments in Mice_________________________________ 80
Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroarylase (AHH), _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- _ _ _- _ _ _ _ 82
Cell an.d Tissue Culture Studies_____-__________________ 84!
B~inding of ~Polycy,cli;aH'ydrocarb'onst~~o~~DNA~ dnd~RNA_ __- 86
AT-lVittosdmines in Toba.cco Smoke_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 87
Summary of Recent Cancer Findings_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _. 88
Referenees--------------------------------------------- 88
List of Figures
Figure 1.-Standardized lung cancer mortality ratios of'
Japanese by number of' cigarettes smoked (1966-70) ------- 69.
Figure 2'.-Lung cancer mortality ratios of Ja.panese by age,
at initiation of' cigarette smoking (1966-70) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 69
Figure 3.-The survivall of'~ ex-srnokers and continuing smokers
who were treated for a primary cancer of the oral cavity,
pharynx,orlarynx------------------------------------ 75.
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List of Tables
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Table 1.-Age-standardized lung cancer death rates of' British
physicians and the population of' England and `?Pales at
various time geriods----------------------------------- 70
Table 2.-N-dimethylnitrosamine (DMNA) content of'~ con-
densates obtained from several tobaccos grownn in both!
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"high"' and "low" ni~~trogen soils------------------------- 87
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Introduction
Tiiis introduction is a brief summary of' the major relationships
brt weensmoking, and cancer which have been established in, previous
nvl)orts on the healahi consequences of smoking', (;9~L,92,93,,94, 95, 961)~.
('i'(;arette smoking has been clearly identified as the major cause of
14u1- cancer in the TJ.nited S'tates:This conclusion is based on detailed
vhi'kllniiological, clinical,autopsy and experimental data, which have
:uccutnulated over a period of more than 20 years, For both men, and
woxmeii,, the~ risk ofdevelopinglung; cancer is directly related to total
klxpostue to cigarette smoke as measured by the number of cigarettes
smoked per day,, the total lifetime number of cigarettes smokedl, the
duration of' smoking in, years; the age at initiation of smokingy the
depth of inhalation of tobacco smoke; and the "tar" and nscotine levels
in the cigarettes smoked. Lung cancer death rates, however,,are lower
for Nc,omen than they are for men, ai finding due, in part;, tloa differencein exposure. `Vomen,
smokers use fewer cigarettes a day, choose filtered
cigarettes with lower"tar'''' and nicatine~ val!ues,, and also tend to inhale
less. E-Iowever; even when women experience comparable levels of' ex-
posure to cigarette smoke as men, their mortality rates for lung cancer
stiill remain somewhat lower.
Those who stop smoking experience a decline in the risk of'develop-
ing lung cancer relative to continuing, smokers. The air, pollution!
commonly found inan urban setting, appearsto result in elevatedllung
cancerdleathi rates; however, thiseffect is relatively small comparedl to
the overriding effect of cigarette smoking:.
Certain occupational exposures have been found tio be associated
with ani increased risk of dying from, lung cancer. Cigarette smoking
interacts with many of theseexposures!.toproduce much higher death
rates from lung cancer than would result from one e.xposure alone.
Inte racting exposure factors may be : experiencedl simul'taneously or at~
different times. The uranium mining and asbestosind'ustries,are exam-
ples of occupations in which this interaction occurs.
The bronchial epithelium of smokers often shows premalignant
changesincludingsquanlous,m!etahlasiay atypical squamous metaplasia,,
and carcinoma in situ.
Pipe and/or cigar sinokers experience a risk of developing lung
cancer that is higher than t'herisk of nonsrn~o~kers;howe,ver, it,remains
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significantly lbwer than the risk of'cigarette smokers. A more complete
discussion of the risks from pipe and cigar smoking, is found inn
another chapter of this report.
Epidemaolbgical, experimental, and autopsy data have demonstrated
that cigarette smoking is, a, significant factor in the development of
cancer of the larynx, oral cavity, esophagus, and urinary bladder.
B-naphthylamine, a carcinogen known to cause cancer of the urinary
bladder in humans, has beenidentiified in cigarettesmoke. Thereisalsoe an association between
cigarette smoking, and cancer of the pancreas.
Experimental studies with animals in which cigarette smoke or one of
it's const!ituent' compounds is administered in & variety of assays have
confirmed the presence of'complete careinogens cocarcinogens such as
tumor initiators and tumor promoters, and tumor accelerators in
cigarette smoke.
Reeent'1y, additional epademiological, autopsy,, and experirnental'
studies have added to our understanding of these rel'ationships.,
Lung, Cancer
Epidem,ialogical Sta.t,dies
An ongoing prospective epidemiological study condtzcted in Japan
provides a unique opportunity to examine the relationship of cigarette
smoking ta death~ rates in a population: withgenetic, dietary, and
other cultural' differences from previously examined Western popula-
tions., Hirayama (37) has now reporte6 5-year foll'otivup data on
265,118 men and women aged40 y ears and older.. This represented 91' to
99 percent of the total' populatiotr in the area of' the 29 health districts
where the study was conducted. A totali of' 11,858 deaths occurred dur-
ing, the 5-year periodl which incUaded a total of 1,269,382 person-years
of observation: Both men and' women wh.o sm.oked cigarettes experi-
enced higher death rates from lung cancer than nonsmokers. Among
smokers,the lung, cancer mort<alityratio«-as3'.85 ~ fbr men and 2:44 for
women as,compared to nonsm~okers~ . (P < 0.001). Dose-response, relation-
ships were demonstrated for the number of' eigarettes smoked per dayy
andl the age at initiation of smoking (figs. 1 and 2). These mortality
ratios,areconside-rablylower than those reported, forthehnited States,
Canada,, and Great Bri~taQn, and may reflect ai lowerar-eragenumber of
cigarettes smoked a da,y;an olcder.age at imitiation of smoking, or re-
duced inhalntion ofe cigaret~tle smoke among the Japanese. In spite of
these differences, thee overall results,of'thisstudy, includingthe dbse-
responserelationships, are similar.toAhe resnlt&ofal'l the other major.,
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TABLE 1I.-Age-stand'ardized lungcan.cerdeath rates of Briti:'sh, physicians
and the population of England and Wales at vdrinus time periods
Lung cancer standardiied!deiath rate per 1,6C10 men per year in-
Dootors. England and Wales
Years------.--,-------------------------------------- 1953;-57 185741 196i-65 19M-57 19,58-611
1962-65
Death rate per 1,000~----------------- 1. 10 0. 85 0. 83 1l 49 1. 71 1. 88'
Source: Doll, R., Fllee;D3.,C. (tt).
Kennedy (~.45); studied primary lung cancer in 29 men and 11 `eomeni
diagnosed before the age of 40 land found a strong association betweeni
cigarette smoking and'the development of this disease.
Boucot, et al. (11) further characterized the 121 cases of lung
eancerdetected in the population of tiliePhiladelpllia pul'monaryneoplasm research project. Ti he
risk of developing lung cancer in-
creased with age, was higher ini nonn-hites than in whites, and increasedd
sharply with, increased cigarette consumption.
The relationship~ between cigarette smoking and lung cancer was
investigated in a retrospective study by: Ferr.ara (25) in La Plata,
Argentina. The: smoking,habits of 144' lung cancer patients were con-
trasted with those of 386' controls. A dose-response relat'ionship, was
found between cigarette usage measured by the number of cigaret.tess
smoked per day and the durat'i'on of smoking,and the risk of'develbping
lung cancer.
A high incidence of' lung, cancer is reported from the island of
Jersey in the Channel Isles compared to England and wales.. The
island has no heavy industry and only minimal levels of air pollution.
Cragg (16) ~ studied 144 patients who developed lung cancer on Jersey
during a 4-year study period. Only three nonsmokers were found
among the 113'patients for whom histories were available:
Fingerland; et al. (26) determsned' the prev.alence of! 1'ung cancer
and certain other diseases in an~ autopsy series of 1,338 adults in
Czechoslovakia. Some 198 cases of primary lung cancer were identifiedl.
In the autopsyy population, 1.4 percent of the nonsmokers, 14'.1 percent
of'thosesmoking Tesst11~an200,,O0b'lifetime eigarettes,, and 33.3' percent
of those smoking more than 500,000 lifetime cigarettes had lung,
cancer.
Rickard and Sampson~ (71)~ studied 94 Negro patients with lung,
cancer in Washington, D.C.,, and found, that 57 (92 percent) of 63
patient's whose smoking history was available were: regular smokers.
Epidemiological studie& conducted in Italy (10)i,, Swe,deni (48),
Poland (46), Russia, (42), Cuba (73), 11Tiexico (13), and the Nether-
lands (98) demonstrate an association between cigarette smoking and,
lung eancer.
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Berg, et al. (5) examined the incidence of recurrent primary cancers
following initiall prirnary~ cancers~ of~ the~ respiratory and upper di-
'restiti-e systems in New York. During 23,802 man-years of observation
in .1,11i5 patients with an initial squamous cell cancer,, 518 second
cancers developed at other sites. Patients whose first primary cancer
;nas in the lung had an observedl to~ expected relative risk rat'io~ of' 5'.:7~
( P< 0.05 ) forr subsequent cancers of' the respiratory or upper GI
~,V:;tem~. Patlient'is, with the~~ first cancer in the~ oral cavity or~ laryna
frea(luently developed a second cancer in the lung.. AIiedical records
_ ontirnaed long sTnoking, histories among almost all of' these patients
Nti IioAeveloped second cancers.
C'uncer~~of the~ lung~, oral cavity, larynx, and esophagus were~~ reported
!~v Schmidt and De~ Lint, (79)~ to be~comrnon~ causes, ~of~death~ amongg
f,WN ' men and women who hadl received treatment~ for~ alcoholism~ in~
Toronto. The authors attributed this finding to the strong, associa-
t irn.t that exists between alcohol and tobacco~ u~se~andnot bo~~ the~effect of
zi Lcoholl alone.
Carcinoma of the trachea is~ a relativeiy~ rare~ condition with, only
ahout-1D0 cases~ha:ving~bee~n reported in the literature~.,lii a study~ of~41'
l)atients~ w~ith, carcinomai of~ the trachea, I}Iaj'du,: et~al. (.31) found an,
~-,Pparent association between cigarette smoking and the development
=4 'epidermoid cancers,of this st'ructure:~
An association between ci:garette~ smok~ing, and the development of~
broncliu:olo-alveolar~ carcinoma in~ 74 patients-~was, described~ by ~ Delarue;~
et al. (18).
.
Ex-sm;okers
Those who stop smoking experience a decline in the ri'sk of dev.elop-
ing lung, cancer relative to continuing smokers: Doll and Pike (2N)
<<onducted a~~ st~udy~of~ the~ smoking habits and causes~~of death of 40,000~
Briti,sli physicians. Smoking ha.bi~tis, were~ surveyed in~~ 19~511, 1957',~ and
.
l:)6G., Durii,2;, the~ study ~ perio<l,, more~ than 3,500 physiicians~ becan:ze~ ex-~
.~niokers~., The age-standardized percentage of ex-sni,okers~~ among 1?hy~-~
sicians 65 to 64 years of age rose from 1I8',1 percent in 1951 to 26,5 per-
cent in 195 1 and ~?~J~:5 hercent, in~ 1966. Concurrently, t~h,e~percentage~of
hhy:sicians~ s~nioking, ci~,rnrettes~~ fell fi-om, 44.1 percent to 22.0 percent,
while over ~ the~ same period estimates of' the~~ per capita ci'garet;te~ con-
sttmption for the adiilt male population in the~ Linited! Kingdom su~g-
(*este<1 ,t slir.ht increase in ciga~ret-te~~ consumption. Over this 15-year~
heriotl, the~ niorttility from hu2g,cancer arnor:7g,physicirans~~dlrophed con-
sidera1hly: While~~ lung cancer death rates among,the nnale population in
1!ar,aand and Wales increased to~ some~ extent (tla~ble~ 1)~.: :llthougll cer~-
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tain limitations apply to the interpretat,ions derived from secular data,
analysis~ of the~ study ~ design and the~ magnitude of the results~ ihdi-~
cate that~this study constitutes important evidence~of~some~of'the~bene~-~
fits~~ tliat'~ result fionii the cessation of~ cigarette snsoking.
Uranium Mining and Fxposure to Padioaetivity
Epidemiological evidence supported by autopsy studies has estab-
lished that'~airborne~radiationy~ particularly~ in synergi~stie~comb~imation
«itlrcigarette smoking,,is the major cause of the excess of respiratoryy
cancers among uranium miners.
Lundin;, et al. ('53), considered quantitative~ and~~ temporal aspects!
of radon.idaughter~exposure and respi'ratory~cancer ini a report'~~fromthe:
Epi~d!emiologica1 Study ~ of~ United States~ Uranium Miners. They~ ob-~
served a stati~stiicalZy~ significant excess~~ of~ respilratory~ cancer among
«hi~te~u~raniom mii7ers~~at each cu~mulative~~ radiation exposure category
dow~n to~~ and' including~ 120-3W WL'M (w~ork~~ing~~ llevel montlLs)~_ The
authors~ noted that although cigarette~ smokiirg~ alane~ entailed a risk of
the~ dl;~veloprnent, of' eancer~ of~ the respiratory.~ tract in, miners just as
it~ does in nonm~iners; cigarette~~ smoking, in combination wi'th; radion~
daughter exposure appeared to result in an even greater risk.~
Several authorsi (30, 44,~638/~~, 104) continuelo~ report the presence~~
of' polbni~um-~210 or~one~of the~th:oriurn isotopes in tobacco l~eaf;~ tlobacco~o
smoke, or the l ungs of smokers.
Air Pollution
Data standard'ized, for~cigarette sm:oki~ng~~ind'icate~the existence:of an~
u~~rban factor~in the~develapm~ent of~lung carlc;er; it is~likelythat ai'r~po1-
lution,,frequent,ly~ part~ofi the city.~ environment, is~ai component of~ the~
urban factor.
Th~e~ National Academy of~ S'ci~ences,published a review (6r')~ of the~
biolbgicall effects of atmospheric polluti~on~ by~ particulate pol!ycyclic~c
organic matter.~ Detailed epidemiological,,experimental, physicaI,,and
chemical data were revie«-edi., It was concluded that air pollution as
commonly ~ found in urban settings, was found to~be associated with: in-
creased creased lung cancer~ mortality in cities, An examination of the data
presented,~however, indicates that eigarette~ srnok~ing is,,i¢l, most~ cases,
the~ overridia'ig factor~ in tihe~ development of lurrg, cancer. IPolycyclic
hv~d~rocarbons~an~d relatedlcompourrds which~aire~known~to~cause,cancer
of the~lhng and other organs in experimental animals were~ found t'~o~
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be p resent in relatively high~ concentrations in cigarette smoke; inlarge
,1u,1ntities in: the~ air of industries in which workers have high-Tung,
,~mcer rates,, and also in the air of urban communities.
Sterling and Pollack(~86)~ reviewed theeffect!sof' air poldutionon,
,leath rates! from lung cancer. They suggested that partielesresulting,
f rom the combustion of' organic fuels may be more strongly related to
thc incidence of lung cancer in the populkation than cigarette smoking.
'Irhe eumulat'ed epiderniological dat'aregardiiircigarette smokangand
ltnu; cancer were not considered by the authors in this report.
Asbestas.
Ogarettesmoking asbestos workershave, ma~rked2'yelev~ated Iung(I:uicer dleath rates compared to:
nonsmoking asbestos workers. Berryi6) examniedt.he combined etfcct~of asbestos exposure~ and smoking
on
mortality from huig cancer among 1,300 male and 480 female asbestos
flotory workers over a 10-year period. There was no significant i'n-
cr.ease in llung cancer mortality amon~g smoking or nonsmokingn orkersn-ith a law-to-moderate
exposure to asbestos. Ho«ever; among smokers
«-ho had heavy exposure to asbestlos,, 32'. lung cancer deaths occurred
among 663 men (9.9 expected), and there were 1& deaths among 292
n-ouien (1'.4 expected). This confirms the greatly increased risk of de-
veloping lung cancer among asbestos «~orkers who smoke cigarettes.
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The respiratoryy tract of cigarette smokers examined at autopsy flre-
qttentIy demonstrates epithelial changes consiidered to be precttrsors of
bronchogenir; carcinoma. Such changes include squamous metaplasia,
atypical squamous metaplasia, and carcinoma in situ. Herrold (35)
studied histolog~ie~ types of prirnary~ lung cancer~in, U~.SL~ vete,rau& who
.vere~ subj~ects~~ of~ the Horn study. Q!f~ a total of, 2,241 wh~ite~~ male~ vetr~
eraais who died of lung cancer over an 8-year period~ histologic mate-
rial «-~as~ a-v~a~ilable~ fbr.~revie« in 1,477 7~ patients. Histologic types were~
rroul~~ed according to the~ Kreyberg classification of Gsoups~ I anld H
tniil,ors. Group I tuaimors~, epidermoid and oat-cell carcinomas, were~
prePs{>>it in 2~7::3'~ percent o£~ the~ 55~ nonsmol.ers~ and were~ present in 57~.8~
hercei~it~of tlie~~4l72 "cnrrent~smoke,rs~~of cigarettes~only.?'Thedi'tfere.nce
\v~as statli'stically~ sipnaifi~cant (P<0.01?1~):, confi~rming,tlic~strong, associa-~
tion behveen cigarette~ snioking~~ and Kreyberg'Group~ I tumors.
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Auerbach et al. (2) examined epithelial changes in the bronchial tree ~
of 456 men, and 302' vr omen who had died of' a cancer other than lung ;
cancer. There were 72 ex-smokers among the men, all of whom had ''
smoked for 10 year&or more buti had'quit smoking for at least 5 years
prior to death. Atypical ceils were present in 93'.2 percent of the current ~
The prevalence of atypical cells (hyperplastrc and metaplastic) in
the sputum of 1221ma1e and 128 female «-orkers was examined by Rob-
bins (72). These smokers, all under the age of' 10; were mat'ched' with
a control group d~rawnfrom a population ofcollegestludents. Atypical
cells were found in 14 percent of the smokers andl 5' percent of the non,
smokers:
smokers; 6.0 percent of the ex-smokers, and 1.2 percent of' the non- I
smokers. Areas of epithelium composed entirely of'~ atypical cells devoid It
of' cilia were found in the bronchial tree of'. 8 percent of'the current a
smoke:rs, 0.2 percent of the ex-smokers, and none of the nonsmokers: ~
TJnusual cells withi di'sintegratiing or fading nuclei were found exclu- ~
sively in 15 percent of the ex-smokers.
Oral Cancer
Data from the large ,Tapanese prospective study by Hirayama (37),
indicate that mortality rates from cancer of the: oral cavity among
males are higher in smokers than nonsmokers; A dose-response rela-
tionship: was demonstrated for, tiheageat initiation of'smoking. Thestlandardized mortality ratio
among cigarette smokers was 10.0 for
men (P<D.001) and 1.22I for women compared to nonsmokers. These
ratiosare not stable due to the few deaths that occurred from oral can-
cer in thss study.
Certain relationships between cigarette smoking and' cancer of the
oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx were investigated by Moore (59).
Over a 15-year period', 1,000 patients with invasive squamous carci'-
nomaat these, sites were, treated ini Kentucky. Of thesepatient~s; 203:
.
had a history of cigarette smoking and had had no recurrence of
cancer for a period of 3 years or more. This group was further dividedi
on the basis of' current' smoking habits. Of the 122 who continued to
smoke,48 (40 percent) eventuallyy developed ai second cancer at these
sites,, whereas onlyfive(6 percent) of'the81 who stopped smoking de-
veloped a second malignancy.. This sixfold' difference is~ statistically
significant (P<0:001).. The survival curves for t!hese two groups are
presented in figure 3.
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Martinez (57), studied the~relationship~between smoking in various
f orms and cancer of the oral cavity in a retrospective study of 153'
p,rtientlswit!h this disease. Dose-response relationships were demon-
strated for the amount smoked,,the amount of' alcohol consumed~ and
tiliadevelopment of cancer of the oral cavity.
TyIdesley(90) examined the prevalence o£' leukoplakiai among, 402
English coal miners of whom 280 smoked and chewed tobacco. Tobacco
chewing was commonly found to be a substitute for smoking in under-
ground' conditions where smoking was impossible. Leukoplakia wasf found in 3.6 percent of the
chew.ers,,-whereas no leukoplakia was found
among the nonchewers..
Nelison and Ship (62) determined the relative influence of eight
vari'ablefactorson the development of oral cancer in relation toagEat t!heonset of disease ina
population, of 191 patients.rithacanfirmed
diagnosis of a primary squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity.
The factors considered inclhzded age,sex;race~,, consumption ofalco-
holandl tobacco certain systemic diseases,and oral trauma., Thelprevalence of'heavy tobacco use
was more common among the younger
patients. «'hsle 91 percent of the cancer patients under the age of 45
smoked more than 20! cigarettes a day; only 59 percent of t~hepatient!s,
over 65 smoked this heavily.
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Reverse smokihgis a~ common practice in some parts of India,
whereby thelh ;htedl end of a homemade cigar isheld inside the mouth.
Pindborg, et al. (64) conducted an epidenriological survey of 10,169
villagers, in the Srikakulam district of south India and~ found that.
43.8 percent of those interviewed practiced reverse smoking. TLeuko,
plakia was~ found' in 818 percent of reverse smokers compared to 0:1
percent in nonsmokers. The 10 patients found to have oral cancer
were all reverse smokers. Reddy, et al. (68) found that rev.erse smoking
rvaspracticed by73. of 100 patients with orali cancer. Reddy,, et al.
(66, 67) reported characteristic histologic findings of' the oral' cavity
in biopsies obtained from reverse smokers. In two other studies from
India, changes in the ultrastructure of the oral' mucosa of chewers
(5h), and smokers (G5) are described'.
Cancer~ ofl' the~ Esophagus
In the Japanese prospective study, Hirayama (3'7) reported that ~
~
male smokers had' a mortality ratio for cancer of the esophagus of
2.24 compared to nonsmokers (P<0:001)'.. NTartinez (57) studied the
relationshipbetween smoking in various, forms~ and the development
of cancer of' the esophagus in a retrospective study of 179 patients.
~
Dose-response relationships were demonstrated for the amount smoked
and alcohol consumption and! t3i~edeWel'opment of cancer of the
esophagus.
Cancer Qf' the Larynx
The mortality ratios for cancer of the larynx in the large,Japanese
prospective study were reported by Hirayama (37) to be 11.0 for male
cigarette smokers and 9.0' for femalie cigarette smokers compared to
nonsmokers (P'<Q.001).Stell (85)1 concluct~ed'' aretrospectii've study of 11W patients tiv~itlii
carcinoma of' the larynx. Only 13 percent of the patients were non-
smokers or ex-smokers compared with 4!1 percentof'the: controls. The
relativerisk ratio for heavy cigarette smokers was 3.48 compared
to nonsmokers. The relative risk was 1.34 for smokers of pipes and
cigars.
b'Toore (59) reportedi the occurrence of second primary cancers in
203'sol:okers whoAiad been surgically treated forcancer r oftheoralf
cavi~ty;pharynx,orlarynx,,witkout recnrrencefor.a period~of'3 years.
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ioked
f the
i
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nale
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ion-
rhe
red,
nd
«'i'tttin an aiverage~followup; period of'7~ years, 40~ pereent'~of t'he~ 122'.
l,atieirts who continued to smoke developed second primary cancers
f t i,E.~ uhper~ respi~ratory or digestive~~ tract, but only~ 6~ percent, of the
l,utirtits who stopped smoking developed second cancers. A total of
:,oi l,utients «ith cancer of'the larynx underwent lar3~ngectomy. Of
tl~t, ~ 16 «1'lo~ contli'ntied t~o~~ smoke,~ t'~ltree~ developed a second' cancer,~
wiu,reas, ~ none of the~ 34: ' ex-smokers~ without a larynx : developed a.
-,,cor id primary malignancy..
Cancer, of Uhe Pancreas
I I'iray.ama (37) reported a~ significant association between cigarette
=m0king~andlthe~~develbpment~of'cancer of the~pancreas~, The~~mortality
n,itios were 2.05 (PC0,001) for men and 1.91 (P<0.05) for women..
Krain (~,47')~ reviewed a number~ of~ environmental factors~that may~
lbr associated with the~~ 15~~ percenti~ annua~t increase~~ in~ the death rate
f roni cancer of' the pancreas~ found in the Uhit~ed States. The strongest ,
n~<I~ociations~ appeared to~ be~ with cigarette smoking and certain
(Tupationali exposures..
Cancer of the Kidney andl Urinary Bladder
Hlirayama (37) reported a mortality ratio of 2:71 f'or cancer off
thekidneyand bIdder in women whosmokecigaretties(P<0:001,)~.The mortaIity ratio of 1.07 for men who
smoked; compared' to non-
smokers was not significant';,however; the fe.v deaths from this cancer
atnongmen in theJapanese! study did not allow conclusions to: be
dra~wn.
Hoover and Cole (39) examined the strength of the associ'ation
between cigarette smoking and': the development of bladder cancer in
successive birth. cohorts of' men and «omen, in the United States,
Denmark, F.ngland'y and Wales. Increasingrates, of bladder cancer
wer.e observed in populations characterized by an increase in cigarette
smoking among successive birth, cohorts.. The association was con,
sistent in both men andl women, andl wasalsoconsistentf'or diffierent
national'ities and urban and rural groups. These findings suggest aa
causal role for cigarette smoking, in the desxelopment of bladder cancer:
Iln a retrospective study from Germany, Fischer (27)examined thesni:okinghabi'tsof1,02 men with
bladder cancer and a controLgroup of
198' men who had benign prostatichypertrophy.Ti'herelative risk
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,
ratio was 6.4 for smokers of fewer than 15' cigarettes a day, andl 27.5
for smokers using more than this amount. Only 3 percent of' the men~ ~
with bladder cancer were nonsmokers.. ~
Xipell~ (1Q3~~)studied renal nodules~ in 2~5Q~patients~ in AustralM who
came to autopsy. Benign adenomas were the: niost common 1'esions f'
and were found in 22 percent of the patients: The remaining nodules ~
were cysts, thrombosed veins, abscesses,, granulomas; and metastatic ~'
lesions. A, statistically significant difllerence~ between the smoking
habits'of those with adenomas and those with the miscellaneous lesions z
~!
was~~ reported (P<0:012)1. All the adenomas were~ found in smokers.
C~ole,~ et~ al. MY conducted a retrospective~~ study of~ 461 persons~ ~
with transitional or squamous cell carcinoma of the lower urinary ;
tract., After the~~ data were~ controllled~: for cigaret'~te~ smoking, occupa~-~
tional exposure appeared to contribute to M percent of' the lower ~.
urina~ry~ tract cancer among men aged 20 to 89~ compared to the~ 39
percent attlributedl to cigarette smoki~~ng~ in n7err~ in a~ previ'ous~~~
report (15). T
Werf~-Mfessing~ and K~atnl~en, (100) examined the association of'
occupational exposure~~ and smoking~~ ini t~he~ development of bladd'er
cancer in 346 males in the Netherlands who had' this disease. The
{
sm~oking~ habi~tls, of cancer~~ and cont.rol' patients in each group~ «ere~ ~
nearly ident'ical ; however, patients with, bladder cancer had a longer `
exposure to hazard'ous~~ woiking, conditi~ons~ th:an~ di'd~ controls.
Experimental Carcinogenesis
Experimental~ studies, ma~inlyy in animals; have, added t~o~ an under-~
stand4ng~of! m<Rny~ of'the processes~~ia7wolved, in ~tobacco~ carcinogenesi's~~.
Possible~~ mechanisms~ of~ chemical carcinogenesis were~ reviewed by
Miller and Miller~ (58)~, Ryser (76)~, and Leone~ (5l). Electroni spin
resonance studies of carcinogenesis were reviewedl by Swartiz (87).
Franke (28) discussed the posible rolle of hydrophobic interactions
of~ polycyclic aromatie~~ hydrocarbons~ with, protein in~ chemical car-
cinogenesis. Chemical carcinogenesis in Sy~~rianihamsters~wa~s,~revietiv.edl
by Shubik (82) and'$omburger (38)..
Re:spiratory Tract Carcinageneais
E~pidemiological~~ cli~nical, and au~~tlopsy~ data from studnes~ of~~huma~~ns
have established cigarette smoking as the major cause of lung cancer
in the j'nited States. One: ofl the~ reasons~ it~ has~ not~ been possible~~ to
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rliaracterize fully the mechanisms responsible for this causal relation-
~k, iE> is the lack of an ideal anian.al model in,%vhi:ch to study respiratory
t~ract~~carcinogenesis~in the laboratory. Exposing~~ animalsAo cigarette~
anokc~ in a closed chamber d'oes not~ repTica~te~ the~ kinds of~~ ex~~posure~~
.ru0l-ing ~ humans~ recei.-e,, although sorne~ recently dieveloped smoking
,
dr:mibers provide conditions similar to the exposure experienced by
Iiuiiran smokers. 1Tany animals are obligatory nose breathers and,.
irr tlrem. a large~ horti~on of tlli~e~ partienla~te~ phase~ of cigarette~ smoke
~
nri' V he removed by~ turbulent precipitation ioi~~ tiLe~ na~~sa~~U passages~ or
l,I rN-nt: before reaching the sites~ in the lung, most c.ommonly~~ exposed
irI liumans. ~V~uerbachy, et a1L (3~)~ first demonstrated that~ malignant~
liing tuai~lors~could be produce& in smokinh, d~ogs~w~ho «-ere~~ taught to~
~runke through a, traeheostomEi. Severa~l investigators have~~ recently
,~xuuriiiried respiratory tract ca~rcinogenesis~ in aniinals~~ using~ intra-
tr;i(l'ie;rllinstilhiti~ons~of~chemiial carcinogens found in cigarette~smoke,
irucludtinb benzo~~(a)pyrene~ and! 7H-di~benz~(dl,g)carbazole~. Tumors~
re,rilting from this type: of treatment are~ freduently ~ simila~r~~ to~ lun:g
nuriors found in humans (wl~ 32. 33. 36, 77. 8l1)..
H~arris,, et all, (33~)~ examined the~~ acute ultrastructural effects of
herrio(a)~py,rene~ carripd~ oni ferric oxide particles, ~ on the~ tracheo~-
!')r()uclniall epithelium~ of t~he~ Syrian Go~lden hamster. Test su~~bstances,
.
were adaninistered by intratracheal instillation. Fe.rri~c, ox~~idie~ alone
rt"sultedl in some~ focal replacement of' columnar~ epitheliilm~ with
laol,'.-gonal basal cells. This~ effect w~as~ reversed by t,erm~iinati~on of th:e~~
treatment: Aftler treatment with benzo(a)pyrene and ferric oxide,
t:ncal replacement of the columnar cells with pleomorphic cells oc-
1,rrrredi These pleomorphic cell's~~ lcadl the~ ultrastructui:al f'eatures~ of'
rtY~pica~l sq~uansous cells~,ancfi. were siiYlilar~ to~ t,he~ hy~~perplasti~c~epitlreli'al
'-cl~ls~ described' in the~ bronchi of smoking , dogs and the~ neoplastic~
,~lliuaanous eells~ found in human bronchogenic ca-rcinoma..
In an extension of this study, Harris,~ et al. (~32)~ reported that vita-
nrin A deficiencY or~ the~ application of lienzo~~(a)pyrene~-f'erric ox~~i'de~
tiirourh ilitratraclieal! inctillation resulted in-squ~annous met~aplasia of
tlie~ trachea. I3oth lesions~ appeared to~~ be~ morpliologicaldy~ similar~ by
liglit naicroscol>tir,~ but~ at~ the ultrastructura~ll level si~,*nihcant d'iffer-
4~nces Ive~re~ observed. Squamous nnet<aplasia induced~ by benzo(a),py-
rene-fcrric oside~ was~ characterized by~ defects~~ in tlhe~ basement
me.ml5rane; enlarged nuclei with cy~t~~oplasmic invaginations, and
pleomo~rphi'c~nuclcoli not~ seen followii<zg~vitamin A deficiency~..
Sellak~u~ma~r~ and S'hubik~ (~80)' treated' Golden Syriani hamsters w~ith~
%1:~eekly intr,ltracheall instiillationsof~ 7H-dibenz~(c,g)~carbaz~ole~~ (7iH1-
UI3(')~~ suspend'ed with equal amounts~~ of~ ferric oxide~in~ a saline~ solu-~
ti~on. Une group ofl 35 hamsters was treated with 45 mr~. of' the~
Carcino~r;en and a second group was~ treated w~ith~ 15~~ mg: llore~ than
~s~'-) percent of~ the a~~ainra.Is~ in each group developed respiratlory~ tract.
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tumors. Most of the tumors occurred in the major airways andi were;'
single~ and' rnnltiple~ applications. A single administration of~~ 37.5 mg.,
ous concentrations of benzo(a)pyrene and ferric oxidW were used in~ ,
Saffintti,,et al. (7'7')~ eramined, the careinogeni'c~ effects of benzo (a) I
pyrene prepared as~ a~ suspensioni of fi'ne~ crystal2ine: particles at- ~`,i
tached t'o~ ferric~ oxide in a physiologic saline~~ solution and admimQs~
tered kiy~~ intratracheal applications to~ Syrian Golden hamsters, Vari
were found less frequently.
squa:mous cell carcinomas. Adenocarcinomas and anaplastic c.arcino~nas
ofbenzo(a)py.rene, witli12.5 mg. of ferricoxideresulled in five
broncTiogenic carcinomas and five histologically benign respiratory
tumors in a total of 61 hamsters. Following multiple adn-vinistrations,,
bronchogenic carcinomas inchtd'ing anaplasticandisquamouscell types
were induced i ~ all dosage ~ groups and' a~ positive dose~-re~sponse~ rela-
tionslii'p~~ was~ demonstrated.
Feron (24)~ studied respiratory tract tumors~~ in S'yrian~~ Golden
hamsters folloiving, tracheal instillati~ons~ of fizrfurall and/or benzo,(a),
hy'rene. Of the 62' hamsters. 41 developed respiratory tract tumors of
which squamous cell car.ci'noma, of the trachea wast~hemost freq,u~entt
type observed: Fiarfurall it, combination with benzo ( a) pyrene resulted
in a hinheryieldr of tumors than was seen with benzo (a)pyrenealbne.
Furfural albne possessedd no carcinogenic activity.
Shabad (8Z): andl oneof'his, _ col2aborators,. Y''anysheva,, produced
benign and malignant epidermoid lung tumors inratsfollotivi~ngsinglea11d muiltip1Je
administrationsof' benzo(a)pyrene byintra-
t'racheal instillation. Dose-response relationshipswere demonstrated:
E~'xperiments in Mice
Cigarette smoke~~ condensate (CSC~)~,, various fractions of CSC, and,
many chemical compoun& identified in CSC~ have been tested f4r~
tumorigenic activity~ in mice by~ aa variety of' methods,~ includi~ng~ skinn
pa~inting~~ and snpcutaneoir:- inj~ectioirs. Complete~ carci~nogens~~ and in-
complete~ carcinogens,, which i~~ncl'ude~ tumor initiators, tumor~ pro~-~
uioters, and tumor accelerators have been described. Several' recent.t
studies~ h<nre~ been conducted using mice~ as~ tlhe~ eaperimental' animal
which examine~ furt~her~ the~ mechanisms involved' in tobacco carcino-~
genesis..
T.ee~ and O'NeiIl (50)~ nleasurecl the, effect of duration~~ andi dosage
of~ benzo (a) pyrene applicationson~ the rate~ of~ dev.e:lopnient~ of~ benign
and malignant skin ttmiors~ in m~ire: 'Z'he~ incidence rate for tumor
formation Nvas' d~itectlyy p~roportGonal~ to~ lioth, time~ and~ dose. q'hese~
data conf'ormedl quite~ closcly~~ to postulated mithematic<<I models of
the rate of tumor dev elopment..
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ations,
,
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e rela-
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of'
I)ii~~-ies aiid «"hitehea.d (17) studiedi the effect of altering the "tar"
;iudi nicotine ratio of cigarettes on experimental carcinogenesis. No.
~i_nuiticaut difference in tumor yield was found between condensates
4)k,i;cined fronr the smoke of cigarettes containing 16.6 mg, "tar" and
nig.~ nicotline and other cigarettes~ cvntaining~~ 10:0~~ ing:, "tar"~ andl
1~.a I~n1(r. nicotine..
'-~everal studies by Bock,,et al. (7, 8, 9) have examined the tumor
prowoting- activity ofl a number of flractions~ of~ cigarette sm~oke~con-~
:iens,ite (CSC)~.~ A number of~ subfractinns~~ of the: neutral fraction
,if~ ('S(" were~tested for~tu~~rmor~ promoting~acti'vity in mice~~ pretreated
%O~tli 1-1,13~-dimethyIbenz(n)antihracene~ as~ a tumor initiator~ (8).~ The,
.
niost, poTa~~r~~ subfract~ioiis~~ and the fraction: containing~~ benzo(a)Ipyrene~
«ere the most active tumor promoting fractions. In another stndy
(,)). the weak acid fraction of CSC'' was found to be a very weak
('0uihl~ete~ carcinogen which probably ~ acts primarily as~ a tumor pro-
inutiug~~ agent. The promoting activity depended primarily: on the
nuriVolatile constituents of this fraction. ilTore recently,, B'ock, et al.
reviewed the tumor~ promoting~ effects~ of CSC and extracts~ of'
t~"b,u,co leaves. _V combi'nation of t~wo~ subfraetions~ of the~ tobacco~ ex-~
t ra(ts. ~is wel2 as five majpr fractions of CSC, were foundi to have
tininor promoting~ activity. Tlie~ fraction containing, the polynuclear~
;re~otmitic~ hydrocarbons~ was~ found to~ be.~ a complete carcinogen. Tw~a.
>+ii>fraetions~were~ found to~be~ strongly synergisti'c~in their~tumor~pro-
u,ot~i~irg~ activity w~hen applied simultaneously to~ mouse~ skim
Lazar, et al. (49) found that hy,droquinone applied to mouse skin
in conj,iinction with the active fractions~ of CSC accelerated the early
last.ologic changes that result from the application of "'tar" or its
fractions.,
Van Duuren,~ et al. (97')~ have~ suggested that "'cocarcinogenesis"' be
differentiated fromi "tumor~~ promotion"' defining~ "cocarcinogenesis'''~
,ts~ tlhe~ production of ~malignant tumors by ~ t~~o~ on~ more~ agents a~pplied.
simultaneously or~ alternately ~ in~ single~or~ repeated doses ta mouse~ skin
and -''tumor~pr.omotion"~ as a single~ treatment with one agent foll'owed
by single or~~ repeated treatment with a second agent.~ Using, these~~
defiiiiti~ons, the~ a-trthors, found severall tumor~ prom~oting, agents~ to:
possesscoca~~rcinogeni'c actiivit~y..~
Roe, et al. (i:/) studied' mechanisi.ns of mouse skin carcinogenesis~
using benzo(a)~pytene~ and a~ neutral fraction of OSC applied singly
or in various combinations with each, other: Skin tu¢nor~incidence~rates~
ialcreasedwitih the dose~ of applied niaterial for both~ the~ neutrall frac-
tion and benzo(a)~hyrenef l~I1i'xtures~of the neut~zal~ fraction with benzo-~
( a)~pyrene ~ (lid not act ind'ependently~ ini the production of~~ ma]lignant
sk~izi~ ttuuors~ l'nut syncr-~istically;~ su(,gestiidh that some. of~ the~~ compo-
nents~of the neutrail fraction act as~~cocancinorrtins~~ rather thEUi as conrl-
plrt~e~carcinogens~.
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Schmahl (78) found a direct relationship between the dosage aq
duration, of subcutaneous injections of tobacco smoke condensates and!
the development of sarcomas in rats. ~
Maenza, et al. (56) studied the efl'ects of a combination of nickel.
subsulfide (~ i3Sz) and benzo (al) pyrene on sarcoma induction in rats. `'
The interval between administration of the carcinogen andl the de-~
velopment of sarcomas was significantly shorter (IP'<0.001) ini male~
Fischer rats given injections of a combina,tion of 10 mg. of M;S'z and'T
5 mg. of' benzo (a) pyrene than in rats given either ingredient alone. ;.
There appeared to be a synergistic interaction between nickell com- ~'
pounds and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
~
Healey;, et al. (34), added further refinements to a technique for
v
measuring, the nonspecific esterase activity of mouse ski¢xi following
appli~cationsof various chemical compound's:~~°~~itlr few exceptions,,
,
changes in esterase activity reflected the known tumor prodbcing
activity of a number, of polycyclic hydrocarbons and tobacco
condensates..
~
Sydnor, et alL (89) exaxni'ned' the effect of' an aqueous extract of' ,-
cigarette smoke eondensate,on benzo(a~.)pyrene-induced sarcoma in,
female Spra:gue-Dawley rats. Benzo(a)pyrene was~ injected subcu-
taneously in various concentrations of' 12.5 µg: to 400 µg: per dose dis- ;
solved in sesame oil. Injections were given on alternate days for
30 doses. The mean tumor induction time was accelerated in five of' `:
seven groups given the aqueous extract of CSC' in their dirinking
water. A:nimals given any benzo(a)pyre-ne eventually developed sar- ~
comas at the site of'injection. Dose-response rela:tionships were demon-
strated for the concentration of benzo(a)pyrene administered. It
appeared that aqueous extracts of CSC contained one or more com-
ponents which functionedias cocarcinogens.
Aryl Hydrocarbon Hytlroxylase (AHH)
Certain of the~~ch~ernical componnds~ found in the ga~s,and particulate~
phase of cigarette smoke are absorbed through the lung or oral cavity
into the general circulation. Possiblv through such absorption some
chemical~: carcinogens are~ carried to~target~organs~~ not directly ~exposedl
to cigarette smoke.~ S~ame~ of these chemical compound~~s~ are~ probably.~
excre~tedi unchanged while others are~ metabolized t'o~ v~ariousdegrees~
by~ enzyme~syst~ems present~in the~ liver andl many~ other tissues. Tlie~
~
microsomal mised-function oxidases are~ key~ enzyme, systems~ for the
metabolism~ of' a«id~e~ variety of chemical compound~s~~ ineluding~ the
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of nick
hinra
~ the de
in ma1e~
rI3Sz an '
nt alone.
Kel com~
~ilue for'
111owing
eptions, ;
aducing'
tobacco'
ract of
)ma in
subcu-
'se dis.
ys for
?ve of _
nki~ng
d sar-
~mon-
!d. It
com-
'hensical carcinogens found in cigaret't'e smoke. Aryl hydroearbon.
hnduoxylase(', AHH) is~ a part of the cytochrome P'-450~ containi'nguniccosomal enzyme system that
is present in several tissues of humans
;1udl m~anyanimal species. The activity of this enzyme system is in-dured following exposure to the
appropriate chemical stimulus. The
ii N,dcoxylation ofpolycycliic liy,drocarbons~results in the detoxification
id ~:oine and the, activation of others to reactive carcinogEnic forms.
An understanding,ofthe role of AHH in the metabolism of chemical
ir, 'i.nogens in man may help clarify some of'the mechanisms involved
iut«baccocarcinogenesis. 1$ecentl'y several studiesexaminedl AHH
:t,c Wity in animals and man.
Studies in Animals.
.Sydnor; et al. (88) found that an aqueous extract of CSC adminis-
tc+red in the. drinking water of rats potentiated benzo:(a)pyrene-
iiicliaceA AHH actiuityinthe liver. TheliiverAHH activity was~I
i;,rhtlyincreasedlbytheaqueousextract ofl OSC alone.Rondia and Gielen (75) reported that rats
exposed to various levels
of carbon monoxide developed a decrease in AHH activity in li'ver
iirmiogenates, The reduction in AHH activity developed after 120
i1oiirs exposure to levels of carbon monoxide which prod'ucedl carboxy-
heinog lobin levels belb«-. 15 percent.
Welch, et al. (99) reported thatthe administ'ratli'on of benzo(a)-
pvrenetopregna,nt rat& resulted in, an increase of the invitro, AHH',
activity of maternal liver, placenta, and fetal liver.A twentyfold
]ii-her dose of'benzo(a)pyrene was necessary for stimulation of AHH
nctivityin fetal li'verthan in the plaeentaor maternal liver.
Studies in Man
ulate
Ivity
some
osed
rees
TI]ie
the
t~he.
Levin, et al. (52) studied the induction ofAHH activity in human
skin. Human foreskin obtained from circumcised childrenwas main-
tained in~ tissue~ culture mediu~m: Exposure to~~101µ/D~T: of'benzo(a):py-
rene, for 16~~hours led toi a twofold to fivefold increase in~ the activity~ of'~
AHH in the exposed skin over controll values.
Whitlock, et all (101) reported the presence of AHH ini humann
lymphocytes. The~~ AHH activity of lymphocytescompared torat liver~
or hanster ernbryo~ ce11's~ is relatively~ low. Treatmenti~ with~ pokeweed
mitol;c,n albne, increased AHH activity about twofold. Holvever,~ aa
threefold to eightfold rreater~ AHI+I~activity was~found inicells,treatedi
witli the mitogen~ and benz~(a) <antlrracene~ than in resting cells.
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Cell anttl'Tzssu,e Culture Studies
In studies of tobacco carcinogenesis cigarette smoke condensate
(CSC),~ subfra~ctions~~ of CSC, and individual chemical eompounds~ ~~
found in CSC~ haa-e, been adni~i~nistered to~ a variety of ~ animals~ using ~~
sereral'routes of administration. Tests on living animals are frequently
"~
complicated~~ and t~~im~e~consuming. Cell and~tissuecul!t~ure~systems, offer
~~
an, alternate~ tool for the~ shid~~y of~ carcino;enesi~s~ -wliich,, in some~ in-
stanees~,, is~~ relatively more ~ rapi~d' thani animal ~ test'ing~. Specific ~ enzyme ~~
systems~ and other cel!lular~ f'unctions~ can~ often be~~ st'tidiied'. in greater~ ~~
detai~l, using these~ systems. ~ Cells ~ obt~ained from a variety of ~ti~ssuesand n.~
animals can be~grown or~maintainedl in c'~ultu~re~~bottles~«-lien nourishedd
with an appropriate nutritive medium in a supportive atmosphere.
When these cullures are exposed to various chemical compounds;
changes can occur which may range f'rom minor morphologic varia-
tions to malignant transformation or cell death. Toxic effects on cell
cultures must be differentiated from malignant transformation. Sev-
eral stu'dies~~ liave~~ recently~ examined, the effect of' cigarette~ smoke
conclensate or individual polycyclic hydrocarbons found in CSC on
various cell andt'issue cult'ure~systems~.~
Benedict,, et', al. (4) studied polycyclic hydrocarbon produced cyto-
toxicity, malignant transformation, and chi+omosome deformity in aa
variety of~~ cell, lines~ derived from rats, hamstersY and~ human tumor,
cells. The cytotoxic effect of benz~o~(a)~pyrene~ was found to~ lae~ related''
to the aryl hyelrocarboci, liydroxylase activity (AHH)~ of the given
ceIl' culture. Benzo(a)pyrene was cytotoxic to fetal rat hepatocytes,
but this effect was probably relftted'to the action o£ the hydroxylated'
metabolite, 3'-hydroxy?benzo~(a)~pyrene,~ since th~e, cytotoxicity was~
blocked 'when t'he~ AHH~ systemi n-as~ overloaded with phenobarbital.
Cell strains not possessing AHH activity showedi no cytotoxic effects
from benzo(a)pyrene~ alone~;, ho«-eti=.er in the presence of~ fetal~ rat
liepatocy~~tes possessing ~AHH ~acti<<ity; enough benzo (~a~) pyrene~ metabo-~
litles~ were! secreted into the~~ medium to~~ indkrce cytot'oxie effects~ in the
normally r~esistlent, cell l~ines,~ In~ hamster~ seconda~ry~ cultures, at~ t'h~e~e
chromosome leuel~~ cytot~oxicit~y~ «-as, associated «~itlii cliromat,iidl breaks,,
whereas malignant~ transformation was more~ closely~ rel~ated to
aneuplbidy.
Diamond ('19), studied't'h~e~metaboli~sm, of benzo~~(a)~ p'yrene~ and 7,12~-
dimet'hy~lbenz(a~)~anthracene (~D-MII3'y1) iirmouse,~harnster,rat,monliey,~
and human cell cult~ures~ Metaboli~siu, of hy.drocarbonslo~ "alkali solu~~
ble''~ and"~`water solta~ble"~ dhrivatives, ~. ivas~~ measured'. Th~e~ results sug-
gested gested that the~ pareut~ compounds ii-ere~ first metabolized~~ to~ "alkali
extractalile~"~d'e~~rii,ati~ves~and t~lreii~to "Iwater~soluhl~e"~deriiN-ati~~%,es.~All tl.re~
cell cultures tested which were, sens~itive~ to, the g~ro%vth~-inliihi'tory~
effect's of benzo(',a~)~1>yr.euo- or Dl'fB~A were able~ to~ metabolize these~
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,arcinogenic hydrocarbons~~ to~ "water soluble'"' derivatives.~ The~~ data~
MV Co~nsistent with the hypothesis that metabolism of the carci'nogen,
nlq uired for (yrowth-inhibitory~or~cytatoxic effect&
, -~evera1 authors~ have examined malignant transformation ini celd.
1,nltures. Inui' and! Takayama (41~)~ cultured hamster lun:g~ fibroblasts
;, nrL tlien esposedl themito~ crud'e~ cigarette~ "tar"' for a period of' 3~ hours.
Between 3~~ to~~ 4K hours folliowi~ng~ this~ exposure, toxic effects of the
rar''~, including cell necrosis,~ swelling;, vacuolization, and' disintegra-
6ut ofl cytoplasm were observed. The death of' 40 to 70 percent of
rlw cells Nr~ithini 72 liou~rs~ was~ followed by~ the appearance~ of~ t~rans+~
i,)rined cell~s~AN-ltich grew ~ at rapid rates:~These~ transformed cells pro
~ ii icedl nialignant tumors~ when inoculated in the~ cheek~ pouch of ham-
-ters~. Controli cell lines produced no changes when inoculated in a~,
<irnilhr fashion.
In~ a similar study ~ by~ Di P~aolo,~ et al. (21), trans~formation~, of pri~-
ru,try hamster cell cultures~wasindiuced by~benzo~(a)pyrene3~-rnethyl~-
1'iu~l;uttlllrene or i;12~-dim:ethylbenz~(~a~)anthracene.~ Transformed cell
1 Mes were established and subsequently inoculatedl in hamsters pro-
~lncin,fr malignant tum~ors~at various sites. Characteristic cli~romosom~al~
rhaniges in~the transformed cellls~«-ers~alsod,escribedL.
_1~n increase~ in proliferati~on~~ and tumor prodhxctiion rate~ of L-Strain
~ ellls ~ produ~cedl by treatment w~ith~ cigarette~ "`tar"~ was studied by~
liiai and Takayama~ (40). L-Straan~celd cultures not esposedl to~"'tar"'
did not produce~ ttunors, wwn~ inoculated in~ C3H~ mice~. 'A:fter an
rxposure t!olow concentrations,of' cigarette~ "tar" significant ch~anges~s
occurred in the~ cultures characterized by~~ enlarged ce11s w~i'th~ vacuolated
cytoplasm:, giant cell formation, and accelerated growth rates. These
transformed cells, producedl tumors~~ in 70~ percent of injected C3HI
Mice.
-Nagata (60) treated cell culltures~ obtained from kidneys~~ of' new-
~
born mice Avith 20-methylcholanthrene in variou~s, concentrations. Con,
trol! cullturesleould not be~ maintained for Iong~;~however; the~ treated
cells formed two~ permanent~ cell lines which had a transformed'~ mor-
phology~ and altered kasyotypes. F~pitTtelial carcinomas~~ .1 ere~ produ~cedl
after~ the subcutaneou~s~ injection of these~ transformed cells i'nto~ un-
conditioned newborn mice.
Freeman, et~ a1L (29) isolated hamster-specifi~c~ C-ty-~pe~ RNA ~ v~i'ru~ses~
from tumors inducedl by~ cell cultures~ transforniedl by~ chemical car-~
cinogens. Cell~ cultures~ were~ prepared from~ earlti.~~~ passage hamster~
enibry.o cells~ anKl treated for 7~ days with 3!-metih~ylcholanthrene~or cer-~
tai~n~ fr.actions~ of~ cigarette~ srnoke~ condensate. Fo11owing~ treatment,
niorphological~ly~ transformedl celll l~i'nes AN-ere~ isolated ai:tdl imtiirt~ainecl.
Subsequent inoculation in newborn hamsters~~ produced malignant
tumors~ at tlie~ sitle~ of inocuhttion. -N~eAl-~ cell liues~ were establi~shedl fromm
sonie~of~the resulltine; tumons: N-o infectli'ous~~viruses~«-~ere isolated from
celI lines~prior~to:iuocttlation; however.~C~-type R~~NA N-i~ruses~were iso-~
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lated from~ tumors and from cell lines derived from tumors. The au-
thors concLuded that the,chemiical treatment and activation of viruses
appeared to be related events.,
Sivak and Van Duuren' (8-3) developed a cell' culture system thatt
responded witli~ characteristic changes in cell morphology to the appli-
cation of various fractions of tobacco leaf extract's. Certain dose-
response characteristics were demonstrated, suggesting ai mechanism
whereby various tobacco, fractions might be rapidily screened for
tumor-promoting activity.
Dietz and Fl!axmair (2Q)' studiedthe, toxicity of aromatic hydro
carbonson normalhumani epidermal cells ini vi'tro.Pieces of adult
human abdomi'nal skin were maintained' in tlissue culture medium andd
exposed to3'-methylcholantihrene and' benzo (a)pyreneat, a concentra-
tion of 1 µg./m1l for a periodd of' 4 days. The cultures were then kept for
an additional3'monthsfollowing. exposure. No malignant transforma-
tion~ oceurredl; h:owever, giant cells~ and a more disorderly pattern of'f
growth .ti:ereobservedi i'mthe treated cultures «eeksearlier than silnilar
changes in control cultures.
Binding of PolycycZic Aydrocarbons to DNA and PNA
There is evidence that some chemical carcinogens including certainn
of the polycyclic hydrocarbons found' in: cigaretltle smoke condensate
are~ active because: of the reaction of~ the carcinogen orr a~ reactive me~-
tabolit_e~~ withi cellular m~acromolecules. Dun~can,~ et al: (23)! studied a
series~ of' radioactive polycyclic~ hydrocarbons with respect to their~
metabolism and tendency~~ to bind with cel~luliir DNA and RNA in
monolayer culltures, ~ of~ primary~ mouse~ embryo, cells. All the tested'
hydrocarbons~ were~ metabolized t'o~ "water soluble"~ metabolh'tes~ at
approximately equal' rates. A "binding index" was caloulated' to db-
tiermine the~~ binding of~ various~~ hy.drocarbons~ to~~ cellular DNA ~ and!
RNA. group of hydrocarbons with a high "binding index"' con-
sisted' of potent carcinogens, while another group «°ithi much lower
values for the "binding index" were with but one exception non-
carcinogens.
Carlassare, et a~l~~, ~ (12) ~ studied the in v:ivo,bind~ing~ of ~benzo ~(~a) pyrene
to~ D~,~~ A. Bonzo(a)~pyrene-3'H ~ «as~ fed tomale~ and' female~ hTCT.i mice
which were~ sacrificed after 15~~ hours. The DNA was~ extracted and
purified'from tlie skin, spleen, and li'n-er: The binding of benzo(a)py`
rene was greatest in tihe~ liver and somewhat less~ in the spleen and
skin~., It was calculated that' the~~ average, molecular weight of DNA
was.6 million and that 1 molecule of benzo(a)pyrene was bound to
e~very~46~.8~~ molecules of~DNA ini the liver, suggesting~covalentl bindi~ng,
of ~benzo~(ia ) ~pyre.ne t~~o~~ DNA.~
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-ucc, the hexane-extracted fraction of' CSC, and benzo(a):pyrene all
.
uddbited,RNA synthesis inmouseskin.
R?-Ni.trosamines in Tobacco, uSmoke
`I'he~ largest'~number of chemica~li earciui!ogans~~ which~ have been iden-
nrtiezli in cigarette smoke condensatle~ are pol~cyclic hydrocarbons.
\'-nitirosanii2ie compounds known for many years to be potent car-
ino_rens have produced malignant tumors in ai number of'organ sys-
t~~i,.ms~ of~ a wide variet'y of~ animals. These~ compound~s~ were~ recently~
i~lhtttifiecll in~ cigarette smoke,~ O'~nl'.~~ recentl~y liias~ an association been
frnnld between exposure tio~~ hTI-nitrosamines~ and malignant tumors~ i'nn
hnuians (55).~ -N~-nitrosamines are~ formed chemi~cally~ by a~ reaction of
\O! and NOs or nitrites with secondary amines: The chemical pre-
4uasors of'the N-nitrosami'nes have been i'd'ent'ified in ci'garette smoke
('0ndensate~ (C~SC)~ by a~~ number of investigat'ors. These, studies .vere~
reviewed by Wynder and )8-Ioffmann (102) .~ AZlore recently, Rhoades andl
lishnson (;69)~ developed a method for the~ determinat'ion of hr~-nitrosa-
luiales i'Zr tobacco: smoke~ condensat'e~ using, gas chromotography. Two
\-nitrosamihes~ were~ found in CS'C~: one «as~ identified as N-dimethyl-~
ioitrosamine~ (D.11~~NA)~ and the~ other~ was~ believed to~, be~ N-~methyl-
(+th~ylilitrosamine~ (M~~EN..~)~ (43', 70). The concentration of~ DMINA
11er cigarette~in nanograms, was~determineds in condensates~ from ex-
nerimr~ntal~ cigarettes made -from single tobacco~ varieties rath~er~
than a tobacco blend. Each tobacco tested was grown in both, a lon--
:uul high-~ni'trogen soil. High-nitrogen soil'~~ conditions~ resulted in a~
~~onsid~erable~ inerease~ in nitrosamines~., A popul~r brand of nonfilter
cigarettes~ was a1so tested. These~ resul~t's~ are~ presentedl in tabl~e~~ B.
TABLE 2: .,V-dimetliylnitrosamine (DMNA) content' of' condensates
obt~ained~ from several t~obaccos,gr~own, in~ botk "high" and~ "low"~~ nitro-
gen~ soils
Tobacco type
Soil nlttogen DR4N,A (nano-
grams per
cigarette)
R6bineon-____, --------- Low nitrogen----------------- 0
Cattertlon_____. -------------- db----------------------- 5
Bhrlev----- --do----------------------- 3
Robinson_-___-____-_ 1"Iigh nitrogen----------------- 27
Cattiertom____________ ------------ do----------------------- 60!
Bitrley -------------- ------------ do----------------------- 140
II.S'1 nonfilter--___,___ 8'.
Source:,Jbhnson, ID. E., Rhoades, J. W. (4$),
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Summary of Recent Cancer Findings
In addation to the summary presentedl in the introduction of'th2s'
chapter, based on previous~reports of the health consequences'of smok-
ing, the following statements are made to emphasize the recent devel-
opments in the field :.
1. Recent epidemiological, andl autopsystudies from several coun-triesconffrmth<2t cigarette
snioking"isthemagor cause of lung'
cancer.
2. Continued cigarettesmoki'ng by patients fol9owi'ng successfull
surgi~cali removal of' a~ cancer of the oral cavity, pharynx, or
larynx wi'thout'tailor recurrence for a period of3yearsisasso-
ciated'n°ithasignificant increase (P< 0:Q01)inith&riskof'devel~oping a~ second primary cancer of
the u'pperrespiratoryor diges-tive tract compared!to similar patients who, discontinue smoking
at the time of their surgery.
3.Theintratrachealadmini'stration ofcertiain polycyclic liydrocar-
bons' found in cigarette smoke condensate result's in the forma-
tion of' an<aplasticand sqqamons',cellcancers of theNngand re-
spiratory tract in hamsters and rats.1'fany of' these tumors are
histologically siinilarto the lung cancersfoundi most frequently
in cigarette smokers.
4. The application of cigarette smoke condensate or polycyclic hy-
drocarbons tovarious cell cu.ltures often results in transformation
to cells with a more rapid and disorderly growt'h pattern. Trans-
formed cell" linesfrequent'ly producebe.nign or malignant tumolrswheirtr.ansplantedtoetperimental
aniina~ls..
5. -N-nitrosamines havebeeli, identifedin cigarett'esmoke: These
compounds are known to bee potent cancer causing chemicals for
avarietyof'anima~ls. Theya~ppear to be formedirr higller concen-
trationsfiom tobaccos raised itndenhigJi-nitrogen soil conditions.
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Page
Iiltroduction-------------------------------------------- 103
Smoking and Birth Weight
Epidemiological Studies
Cigarette Smoking and the Low-Birth-Weight Infant-
105
Evidence for a Causal Association~ Between Cigarette
Smoking and Small-for-Dates Infants------------
106
EVidencei for~ an Indirect Association Between Cigar
rette Smoking; and Small-for-Dates Infants-------
110!
Experimental Studies
Studies in Animals
Tobacco Smoke-----------------------------
114.
Nficotine----------------------------------- 115,
Carbon Monoxide--------------------------- 116'.
Polycyclic Hydrocarbons--------------------- 1'17
Studies in Humans
Carbon Monoxide---------------------------
118
Polycyclic Hyd'rocarbons--------------------- 119
Vitamin B12, and Cyanid'e; D'eto:xification-------- 119
Vitamin C---------------------------------- 1'19.
Possible?1lechanisms--------------------------------- 114
Timing of t~heTnfluerr,ce ofC'igaret~te Smoking~ on: BirtJi~
Weight-------------------------------------------
120
r.S'ite of' Action at the Tissue and Cellular Level------------ 121
Signific¢n,ce of the: A'ssociation------------------------- 121
Birth IVei'ght Summary------------------------------- 1'2'2
Cigaret't'e Smoking and Fetal and Infant Mortality
Introduction----------------------------------------
123
Spontaneous; A.bortion'-------------------------------- 123
Spontaneous Abortion Summary------------------ 124
Stillbirth------------------------------------------- 124
St'illbirth Summary------------------------------ 125'
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Cigarette Smoking and Infant Mortality-Con.
Late Fetal and Neonatal Deaths------------------------ 126
Epiderniloiogical S'tudies-------------------------- 128'
C~omparisons~ of t'he! Mortality Risks~ of' Losv-~
Birtli-W~eight Infants Born to Smokers and
Nonsmokers------------------------------
126
Recent Studies------------------------------ 128
Anal}-sis of'Previously Reported Studties-------- 130
Factors Which I'nfluenee~ Perinatal MortalityOther Than Smoking---------------------- 13'1
Experimental Studies
Studies in Animals--------------------------
132
S'tudfies in Humans-------------------------- 133
Significance:of' the Association-------------------- 133
LateFet'al and'~, Neonatal Death Summary---------- 134
Sex Ratio'---------------------------------------------- 135'
Summary------------------------------------------- 135'.
Congenital 1VI!alformations-------------------------------- 136'
Congenital Malfor7reation Summary--------------------- 137'
Lactation
I'ntroduction----------------------------------------
138
Epidemiological Studies------------------------------- 138
Experimentad' Studies---------------------------------
' 138
Stud
ies, in AnimalsNicot'ine----------------------------------- 13'8'
Influence on the Lactation Process------------- 138'
Presence of Nicotine in, the 1Vlilk-------------- 139
Evidence for an Effect Upon thei Nursing Off-
spring ------------------------------------
139
Nitrosamines------------------------------- 139
Studies in Hurnans
Nicotine: and,ior Tobacco Smoke---------------
139'
Influence on the Lactation Proeess------------- 1'39.
Presence of' Nicotine in the MiIk-------------- 140
Evidence for a Cliniical Effect Upon the Off -
spring------------------------------------
140~
Vitamin C---------------------------------- 14'1'
Lactatibn; Summary'---------------------------------- ----------------- - - - - - -
Preeclarnpsi'a--------------------------------------------
142'
Summary_------------------------------------------_ 142'
R'eferences---------------------------------------------- 142

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Figure 1.-\Iean birth, weight for week of' gestation according
to maternal smoking habit: control week singletons--------- 104~
Pi,ure 2.-Percentage distribution by birth, weight of' infants off
mothers who did not smoke during pregnancy and of those
Ncho smoked 1 pack of cigarettes or more per day---------- 105
Figtire 3.-Percentage of: pregnancies with infant weighing less
than 2;5000 grams, by cigarette smoking category----------- 108~
Fi;ure 4.-Average birth weight by maternal smoking, habit
(a) before current pregnancy and (b) during, current preg-
nancy------------------------------------------------ 110
Figure 5.-Percent of'low birth «-eight white infants by smok-
ing: status of'~ their motlhers------------------------------ 113'
F'inure 6.-Neonatall mortal,'itu rates among, single white births
in hospitals (by detailed birth weight and specified gestation
groups: United States)'--------------------------------- 1128
Figure 7.-Perinatall mortality rate per 1,000, total births by
cigarett~e smoking category----------------------------- 129'
List of Tables
Table 1.-fnfant birth weight by maternal andl paternal smok-
ing habits-------------------------------------------- L11
'Table 2.-Effiect of carbon monoxide& exposure of pregnant
rabbits on birth «-eigh't--------------------------------- 1117
T.able 3.-Compariaon of' the perinatal mortality for infants
n-eighing less, than 2,500 grams, of smokers and nonsmokers- 127
Table 4:-Effect of carbon monoxide exposure of pregnant rab-
bits on birth weight and neonatal' mortality---------------- 133'
Table 5'.-Proportiion of: male infants delivered to smoking and'
nonsmoking mothers----------------------------------- 136
Table 6.-Relative risk of congenital malformation for infants
of' cigarette, smokers and nonsmokers, comparing available
s~tudies with regard to study design, study populatibn,,sample
size; number of infants «-irt,h~ malf'ormations, and definition of
mal~formation----------------------------------------- 137
1011

Imtradiwction
('igarettesmoking isa commonhabitamong women: of'chil'd-bearin~g;i~,re in the United S'tates: Iln
1970, approximatielyone-third of Amer-ic,ul women of child-bearing age were cigarette smokers: The
percent-
,z _-e of F.S. women who smoked throughout preYnancy is not definitely
;:alown, but is presumably,~ lo«-er probably in the neighborhood of 20,
rr, ?5 percent. Witliia large fetal population at potential, but prevent-
al~le, risk; t'lie relationship between cigarette smoking, and' the out-
('Olueof premlancyhas been the focus,ofconsiderableand continuing:
research.
Lver~.~ investigat'or who has examsnedithe relationship has confirmedl
that the infants of women who smoke during pregnancy have a lower
avenage birth weight than the infants of' women who do not smoke
uluringpregnancy.: INIuclii evidence indi'catlesthat cigarettesmokin'g
duringpregnancy causes this reductian, in infantf birth weight. Sw?v'eral
investigators haved'emonstrated that tihefetal' and neonatal mortalitiy,
rrate is significantly higher for the infants of' smokers than for the
infants of nonsmokers; other investigators have not foundd higher mor-
talityf'orsmokers' infants-Stu'dies~of the associntionbetween maternal
cigarette smoking and congenital malformations have produced con-f[icting resullts,Thefollowing is a
revieww of' «orkpreviiously reported and recent
studies which -bear on therelat'ionshspsbet'ween ci~garettesmokingand,
dilfferent outcomes~ of pregnancy. I'nadditi'on the chapter includes a
review of the rellationship between cigarette smoking and lactatli'on.
Smoking and Birth Weight
Epri'demiologieal Studies
LIGA'RETTE SMOKING t1ND THE LOw'-I3IRTH-WEIGHT INFANT
In~ 1957, ~ Simpson (90');, using a retrospect~ive~ study~ designy, deter-
mined that among 7,499 women in~ S'an Berna;rdiim County, Calif., the
deliverv of infants weighing~less~than ~ 2~,5(l0 grams was~nearly t~«-ice~ as~~
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frequent among cigarette smokers as among,nonsmokers. Snlisequently, ~
Lowe (46) studied 2,042 women ini Birmingham, England, and, d'em- :~
onst'rated in his retrospective study that the i'nfants of smoking ~
mothers were del7vered only slightly earlier (1.4 days on the average) ~
than those of nonsmokers. He further noted that for gestations of 260!
days and over, the infants of smokers «ere' consistently lighter in ~
«eiglatdnring, each«-eek of gestation~ than those of the nonsmokers.
This finding' has been confirmed siilce; and figure 1 fromi the B'ritish ~
Perinatal Mortalit'y Study (13), provides illustration of this
relat'ionship:
Given thenearly constant disparity present betl«-eenthebirth .
weights of the infants of'smokers and nonsmokers for gestations of' 260
days and over, but, absent prior to that time, and' giveni the similar
birtliweight's ofi~nfant's,of' nonsn2okersands of wolnenwhogaveup
smokingearly.in pregnancy and didi not begintosrnoke ag ain; ILoweinferred tliat, theidifluen:ce of'
smoking upon birth weight miglitlie
mainly in the later months of pregnancy. F'leemph~asized the tentative
nature of this conclusion, sincetaie number ofinfants.ti-itlh a gestation
of less than 260 days and the number of women whogan-e tip smoking
early in the pregnancy' and' did not begin to smoke again were both
small.
Figure 1'.-Mean birth weight for week of gestation according to maternal smok-
ing habit: control week singletons.'
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~ This term refers to singleton births In Engiand; Scotland, and wales occurring during the
week of March 3-9; 1958, whichi are included in the Perinatall Mortality Survey. These
comprise 97' percent of all births notified in England and Wales or registered in Scotland
during this week.
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1>regnancy «eibhed, on the average, 170 g~ranl~slessthan thoaewhosemothers did not smoke. In
addition, he notedl thata'the ent'iredistiribu-
rion of' weights of infant'sf ofl smokerswas shifted to the left (t~oward
lower weights) relative to that for the infants of nonsmokers. This
i6)xling, too, has been confirmed by other investigators, Figure 2 offers
na)~illustration froml\TacATahon; etal. (49).
Given that the infants of smokers andl nonsmokers differedi only
.<li-(rhtly with respect to the duration of gestation, Lowe concluded that
tiie lower birth «eight of smokers' infants must be attributed tol a
iiirect retardation of fetal growth. In other words; on the basis of his
~l'ata,, the infants of smokers were sma11-for-dates rather than truly
preznature.
NDanyinvestigatorshavesubse,duentlly confiQ-rnedl this point (12, l4,,,
6a., 78,,83,123). Buncher (12), in a study of 40;89/ births among
I-.S'. naval n ives, in the same popul6tioni studied byIlndemroodl, et al.
(100), found that the imfants of smokers were,, on the average, de
llivered only 1' day earlier than those of nonsmokers. This finding
accounted' for only 10: percent of the discrepancy in birth weight, be-t`veen the two groups of
infants. The remainder of the studies resulted
in t1xedetection of' either similar vari'ationsingestationall length or
no ar.eragedsfference. In a recent study; Aiulcahyand A~furphyl
Figure 2.-Percentage distribution by biith weight of infants of' mothers who did
not smoke during pregnancy and of, those who smoked: 1 pack of
cigarettes or more perday.
I~NFANT1MEIGHT' AND: PARENTAL SMOKING, HABITS
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in a sample of 5,099 Irish mothers; concluded that although the babies
born to cigarette smokers were delivered sliglitlyr earlier than those
of nonsmokers, independent of age and parity, the direct effect of
smoking in retardingfetal growth was more significant.
The following points, based upon the results from manyy differentt
studies, can be made about' the relationshi'p between cigarette smoking
during pregnancy and lower infant birth weight:
1!. Women who smoke cigarettes during pregnancy have a higher
proportion of low birth-weight infants than do nonsmokers. This
excess of low-birth-weight infants among cigarette smokers pre-
dominantly consists of infants who are smalI-for-gestational age
rather than gestationally premature.
2. The ent!iredistributlion of birth, weights of' the infants of ci~ga~-
rette srnoker& is~ shifted toward lower weiglits compared to the
birth tivei;ghts of the infants of nonsmokers.
31 The birthi weights of' the infants of cigarette smokers are con-
sistently lighter, than those of the infantis. of nonsmokers when
the liirth weights of the two se.ts of infants are compared' R-i'thsnn
groups of similar gestational age beyond the 36th week of
gestation.
The results of the studies which have beenconsidered so far identify
a relationship between cigarette smoking, and loR-er infant birthh
weight and' illustrate some aspects of' that relationship, but do not
indicate whether the association is causal or indirect:The succeeding
two sections ofl thi's chapter contain evaluations of the available evi-
dence whi'ch bears upon tihe nature of' the association between cigar-
ette smoking during pregnancy and the incidence of small4or-dates
infants..
EvIDENCE FOR: A CAUSAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN OGARETTE SDIOgING
AND SMAII:L-FOR-DA'ITES INFANTS
Evidence previouslyy reviewed in the 19711 and 1972 reports on the
heaTthi conseqpences of smoking (101, 102) ) suggests that cigarette
smoking, is causally associated withi the delivery of' slnalMor-dates
infants. The following is a summaryy of this evidence :
1. The results from all 3b1studies in which the relationship between
srnokingandl birth weight was examined havedemonstratedl a strong
association between maternaT ci9arette smoking anddeli~-eryoflo~~-birth-weight infant~s. On
t'heaverage; t'hesmoker has~nearh~-~ twice the
risk of delivering a Iowbirth-«-eight infant as thatt of a nonsmoker
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1:3, 17, 20, 25, 29, 35, 42, A 46, 47, 49, 57, 58,, 59, 65, 70, 72, 73,.
;7 . ,8: 80, 83,85, 90; 95, ,99y,1G10,113,1 18). ,
?: The strong association between cigarette smoking and the de-
li.\ ery of small for-dates infants first demonstrated with results from
>ndtlies of retrospective design (3,13, 17, 35, 46; 47, 49, 57,68, 59, 65,
;6: 72, 73, 77, 80,85, 9095, 99,100,118)~ has!been repeatedly confirmed
>ul,,equentlybyd'atafram studies ofprospect'i!ve design (20,,25,,29, 42,
;'8. 83,113) .
:;. A strong dose-response relationship has been established between
c i_,r,urette smoking and the incidence of' low-birth-weight infants (25,
;.>. _~f:, 59;100,1'13).
t. When a variety of known or suspected factors,ivhich, also exert an
iiifluence upon birth weight have been controlled for, cigarette smok-
ini-, has always been shown to be independently related to low birth
ght (1,13,25,43,A13;78,83).:. The association has been demonstrated in many different coun-
tries; among, different races and cultures,andl in different geographicall
sott ings ('131~7,25, 29, 36,1f2,,13, 59; 73, 78~ 801 ~13) 1.
G. Previous smoking, does not appear to inflluence birth weight if
tliemother givesupthehabi't prior to the start of herpregnancy (25,
i%y..f:9;113).
,. The infants of smokers experience an accelerat'ed, growth ratelurin,; the first 6 months after
delivery, compared to infants of
nciismokers. This finding is compatible with~ viewing birth as there-
movaI of the smoker's infant from a toxi~cinfluence(',83).
5% Data from experimentsin animals hav~e: documented that ex-
l,osuneto tobacco smoke, or someof' itsingredients results in the
(lelivervof' low-birth-«eight off'spring(7, 8, 9, 23, 40, 87,117)'.
Several recently published studies have provided' additional sup-
porting evidence for a causal relationship between cigarette smoking,
and smnll-flor-dates infants. The~ Ontario~ Perinatal' nl~ortality Study(66) was conducted among 10
teaching hospitals during 1960 andl
1961. 'The authors of this retrospective study of 50,267 births demon-
strated ai significant excess of infants weighing less than 2,500 grams
among cigarette smokers as compared with nonsmokers (P<0.001).
Smoking was significantly dose-relatedl to the percentage of preg-
nancies terminating in the delivery of a low-birth-weight infant(fig. 3).
ti iswander andl Gordon (63) have recently reported data from the
Collaborative Perinatal Study of the National Institute of Neuro-
logical Diseases and Stroke., In this prospectiv~estudpof'3J,200~ preg-
loancies which «°ere nearly equally divided among black and shite«-oinen, the authors found a
significant dose-related exeessof low-birth-weight infants among smokers of both groups, compared to
nonsmokers of'the same race.
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Figure 3.-Percentage of pregnancies with infant weighing less than 2',500
grams, by cigarette smoking category.
12'.0
11.0
10.0
9:0
8.0
5.0
4!0
3.0
2:0
0.0
4.7
7:7
12.0
Nonsmoker <1 pack ?1 pack
per day per dax.
Number of
infants weighing.
<2,500 grams: 1,322 1,186 793
Total births: 28',358' 15,328: 6,581
(P <0.001).
SOURCE: Ontario Department of Health (66).
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Rantakallio (76)~ carried out a prospect'ive study of 11,005 single
hirths in Finl'and. Gigarette smoking mothers hadsignifieantly moreirifants weighing less than 2;500
grams than did nonsmokers
(1' <0.001).IP,uslt and Kass (82),, in a prospective study of 1,040 pregnancies in
E3o;~ton4Massachusetts; Domagala, et al. (19), in ai retrospective study
of 1.832 pregnanciesini Poland; and 'Mukherjee and :1lukherjee(51~),
in a retrospective study of 2,886 pregnancies in India, each found a
igiaificantly higher incidence of low-birth-weight infants among
r i.*;irette smokers.
Ilutler,et~ al. (15) have furtheranal'yzed the British Perinatal nlor-
t;ulity Study data. Analysis of the 16y094 questionnaires revealed that
i? ):5 percent of the women were cigarette smokers before pregnancy.
_1'fiter the fourtli, nzonth,thaspercentage had decreased to~ 27.4 per-
ceiit. Given the large number of women in the study, andl the sig-
iidficant changes in smokiiigbehavior«hich occurred~ Butler,, et al.
f'cmnd it possibl'e to consider the effect of a change in smoking be-
havior on birth weight; bet~s~een the beginning ofl thepregnancyand
the fourth month (after which smoking behavior was reportedly
~table),. The authors stated, "If smoking itself (rather than the
type of woman «ho~ smokes) has a deleterious effect on~ the fet'us,
it would be reasonable to expect the mothers who gave up smoking
(11aring pregna.ncy to show differencesin: tlhebirthweight and peri-
iiatal mortality of theiroffspring compared with thosewho~contii2ued
to smoke." Their results are presented in figure 4. The birth~ weights
hysniokirng categorieswereestimated byusingamain: effect model
Withoutmediating ~~-ariables. However, the authors reported that when
the mediating variables (soeial' class, maternal age;, parity,, maternal
lieight;, sex of infant, gestatiionalage, and perinatall mortality): were~
alloNvedl for,, theresultis: of theanalysis were very.similar. The effect
of cigarette sinoking,before pregnancy was insignificant compared to
that of smoking regularlyafter the fourth~ month of gestationL Ti heauthors concluded, "The~ finding
that a change~ in maternali smoking
liabit~schlring, pregnancy had the effect of putting the baby intoabiuth weight and perinatal
mortality categoryassocia,ted withthe newsnlokiiig: habits points toward some kind of
cause-effect,relationship.
*~*'ll'hisfindingis further strengthened by the birth weigl,itanaly.sis
which shows that the diminution in birth weight of the offspring of
sm:okingnaotherspersists and is indeed li'ttlechanged wlienallowance,
has been made for a number of other social and obstetric mediating
factors."'
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Figure 4-Average birth weight by maternal smoking habit, (a) before current'
pregnancy and (b) dluing, current pregnancy.
Number of cigarettesJda
3,400
9"
E
~ 3;300.
3,100-
0
I~
. ,k,._.
I I I I --L----- --.,
0
20-30
1!Q-19
5-9
0 1-45-9, 10r-11920-30,
tVumberof cigarettes/day before current pregnancy
SOURCEc Adapted f'rom Butler;,et aii (15):.
lbtal
births:
21,671
.
EVIDENCE FOR'AX YrTDIRECT ASSOCIA1Zo1'BETZ4'IIEN LIG.IR;E=S3IOIiI\G
AND SMALL-FOR-DATES INFANTS
Yerushalmy(113,114, ;110.)~ has suggested, that smoking isan indexto a particular type of
rehroductive outcome and thus does not pl'ay a
causal role in the productian of small~f'or-da,tes infants. He has de-
veloped several, lines of support for this~ hypothesis, from an analy,sis,
.
of data from t!1ie prospective investigation of 13,083 mothers in the
Oakland Child H'ealth and Development Study. H'e has emphasizedl
that ineffecti've randomization and the phenomenon o' self-select!ion
complicatetlied'eveloprnent of' appropriate inferenceswith~ regard
to, causality-.Such difficulties d'o~ notpreve,ntthe identification of
causal associations, but t1leydemand careful and criticall anal'ysis~ of
the data. Yerushalmyhasquesti~aned the causal nature of the relaftian-
shipbetween cig2rettestnokingand small-for-datesinfa,nts because
of: (a)~ Therelationship~ betweenthesrnoking h.zbitof the father
and low birth weight oftlie infant,, (b), behavioral d~iffererucesbetween
smokersand' nonsmokers; and (c) comparison of' theNrth weihhts
110
in current' pregnancy;
after the fourth month
of gestation
I

i current
tes/da
la ncyr;
lanth i
~
I
'ptal
jths:
67T
~
of a«oman's infants born during the periods when she smoked ciga-
rettesand when she, did not.
1 eruslialiiny (114) has stated that the smoking habit of the father
(,ou lil! not reasonably be related to the birth weight of the infant. From~
prel'iminarydata derivedl from t'hestudy, however,, hedetermined'
t!iat there wasaiL increase& incidence: of' lo«-birt~h-weightinfants
wlien thefathers~ smoked and, moreover, thereR-asan apparent,dbse-
rnsponse relationship as found for maternall smoking. However, he
noted that'onlywhen, both the husband and the~ wife smoked wa& the
inridence: of low-birth-weigl'it babies increased. He felt that theselindings supported the
conclusion that smoking was a marker of
t~~pes of individuals and not a causal factor for low birth weight.
t~)therinvestigatars have since examineds thisrelationship: (',49,, 100),
hilt none hasconfi,rmed an independent association forpaternal;nloking. Theassociatiion between
paternal srnokingand birth«eight
:il)pears to be an indirect one. Paternal and maternal' smoking, be-
li:ivior are higlilycorrelated and maternal smoking is strongly related
to infant birth weig)1t: Underwood, et al. (100)~ studied 48,505: worn.en,t heir
h2zsband's'smokingbehavior;and the relation with birth «.eight.
(table 1). If the mother was a nonsmoker,, then the father's smoking
liadl no influence on the birth weight of'the infant.
'I':L~B uF L.-I'nfant birth ~ weight ~~ by ~ maternal, and paternal~ smoking habits
~
Mothers: Fathers (nonsmoking mothers)
Cigarettes per day Birthweight (grams) Birthweight, (grams)
Number - Irlumber,
Mean IDiHerenceI Mean DiSerenceI
.
lex
~ aa
de-
rsis
t}le
;ed
on
,rd
of
of
h-
se
er
!n
tls
\o ne------------------ , 2486+i' 3, 395 0 9, 547 3, 396 0
1 to 10----,-,------------ 7,,609' 3, 2W 109 3,493 ' 3,389 7;
11 to~30---------------- 14450 3, 19& 199 10,403 ' 3; 3911 5
>30---__-,---,-_-------- 1,570 3,182 ' 213' 1,330 3,393 3
I Nansmoker mihus smoker.
Sdurce: Underwood, et al. (t0ll)1
Yerushalmy (115); pointed out that other investigators had found
marked d~ifferencesbet'weensmokersand nonsmokers. In his own
Audhr; hefound that nonsmokers used contraceptives sie ifiicantl'ymorefrcquently, than did
smokers.BZloreover,ai significantlyhigherprrnhor.tion of smokers drank coffee; beer, and
.Fhiskey.I3o«-ever,~ herlid not adj2ist for these variables in his, analysis of theassociation,
between cigrtiret'tesmokingand lower infant birth weight. O'tlheri'n-
vestigators have also found di'fferences between sanokers and non-
smokers. Forexarnple; Frazieret.al. (w5)found significant d~ifferenees
in the distribution of parity, work history;, education, and psy¢ho=
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somatic complaint score between smokers and nonsmokers. However,
«'hen smokers were compared with nonsmokers of' the same parity;,
education,workhistory., and psy.chosomatic coniplaintscore, cigarette
smokers still had ai significantly high~erproportioni of small infants
than did nonsmokers. Asprevi~ouslymentioned, whenever otherflaetors
known or suspected to influence birth weight havebeeai controlled,
cigarette smoking, has always been dernonstratedl to have an inde-
pendent and significant elfect:
Ounsted (69)~ offered evidence that tlre~best~predictor~of'the~ birth,
weight of a mother's. future offspring, was the birth weight of her
previous children. Herriott, et al. (,35~)~ found~, prematurity rates for
previous pre;nancies~ among smokers t'o~~ be~ markedly higher thann
among: nonsmokers, independent of~ parity, height, and social elass:~
Ev~i'dentlx~ awomam whose~ previous! . infant!s~ have been small tends~ to
continue~ to ha~ve~relativel''y~ smaller than a~verage~ infants in subsequent
pregnancies: The question is, wil'1~ tliose~infants~~ be enen~ smaller than,
expected if she smokes?
Goklstein,~ et ~a~11 (2S) ~, in a~ comprehensive review, proposed a~~ research
design i'n whichi a woman would serve as her own control to compare
outcomes of pregnancies during which she smoked with those diiring,
which she did not with consi~deration of~the~ eff'ect~ of' parit'y~~ on the~~
outcome. Yerushalirsy (1'12)' has~ recently tested this type of research
design, usi'ng~d'ata fcom h~is~O~akland Gro~wth~Study: ~Pith~information
on the~ age at which! awom~an began to~ smoke cigarettes her sm:oking~~
status~ d~u~ring, th~e~ pregnancy actually studied,, her~ prior~ reproductive
experience, andi the outcome of' her present pregnancy, the author
compared the outcomes of' pre,-nnncy during periods of smoking and
nonsmoking using the woman as her own control'. As the author noted,
"If smoking causes the increase in low-birth-weight infants, then the
incidence of low birth we.ight for infant's born to smoking, mothers
dizring the period before they acqu2red the smoking habit, should be
relatively low. If, on the other hand, the high, incidence of' low birthh
weight is due to the smoker; then it should!be high for infants of fut.uree
smokers also when they were born before their, mothers started to
smoke."
Yerushalmy theni proceeded to compare the reproductive experiences
of' four groups~ of women:(a)l Those who smoked in none of their
preb ancies,, (ib), those who smoked in alli of their pregnancies~,, (c)
thosewh:oweresmoking now but prez:iously bad not smoked dilring,
some pregnancies (future smokers),and(id)thosewhowereex-smokers now but had previously smoked during
some pregnancies..
These outcomes are shown in figure 5'. The incidence of low-bi'rtfi-
weight infants, in the pregnancies of thefuture smokers, before theystartecl to smoke,, wassimilar
tolha.tfor women~ who smoked in everypregnanc-y, which was~ significantly- higlierthan that
ofinfantlsfrom.
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iwever,
~arity,
rarette
hfants
actors
;o11ed;inrle-
birth.
4 her
ds for
tbann
class.
ds to
luent
than
arch
pare
;ring
1 the.
~rch
6on
King,
tive
thor
and
tedye
the
lers
i be
Irthb
ure
I to
ces
eir
Fc),
ng
~s'..
11-
'y
~p.
rn
luothers «-ho had never smoked. He also noted that ex-smokers, during
tfw period before they quit, gave birth to relatively few low-birth-
v,~, . larl a iirfants ; the incidence~ was si~gnificantly~ lbwer than for mothers'
Wim s~inoked during~ all of their p~regnancies. He~ concluded that the~
tinriin~rs cannot be~easily~ reconciled .vith~ a cause-effect basi~s~fbr~smok-
~a ~1,: ~,irid birth weight. ItIe~ said, "Rather the ev~i'dlence~ a'ppears,to ~ support
ti iee hypothesis that the higher incidence ofl lotiv~-birt~hrweight~ infants is
&w to~t~he snaok~er;~ nott the s~ntokin.g~"~~
-1'liere are several considerations' which limit the interpretations
v.loiclr can be drawn from this study. The information on smoking
LwIS,Ivi~or~ of' the women during, past pregnanci~es~ was~ apparently ~ dle-
ri % cd from the woman's age when she began to smoke, her smoking,
',It-?tavior~~early~ in the~ studw~ pregnancyand the~age~at which she had
prior pregnanci'es. Thus, if~ the woman reported that she, began
_1n0king at a certain age, an&that she was still smoking at the time of
; iw stud}-, it « as apparently inferred that she had smoked during all of
h(,rprebziancies. Since~noquestibns~were~~spe~cifiically~asked~abou~tactua~l
>+nokiug behavior d~urin,g~~ each previ~ous~ pregnancy, it is possible that
t:w woman indeed had not smoked during~every~ pregnancy~ or that
tl eamoudit or way she smoked had differed from current smoking
Figure 51-Percent of low birth weight white infants by smoking status of' their
mothers.
Gravidas' smoking habits Percent low birthiweight infants
in previous pregnancies
Nonsmoker
(during all pregnancies)
Nonsmoker
(future smoker)'
Smoker
(during all pregnancies)
Smoker
(future ex-smoker)
5.3' 1 2,529
9.5 I'- 210
8.9 *$ 2;(176~~
6.0' 1 ~ 651
4 6 8 10
Percent.
'Difference is statistically significant (P <0.01).
°°Difference is statistically significant (P <0'.02)'.
SOURCE: Adapted from YerushalMy, J. (112).
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habits. This would be important t'oknow given thest'rongdose-
response relationship which has been established between cigarette
sm:okingandlowbirtTr weight, and would tend tomakethereproduc-
tive outcomes for ea-smokers similar to those of' nonsmokers; and
different from those of' women who smoked in all' pregnancies..
For ex-smokers, the age at which, smoking began was not elicited.
Hence, some of the infants of' es -smokers may have been born before
theirmothersacquiredr t'he~ smoking habit. Thi's.vould alsot'end to
make the reproductive experiences of es-smokers~ more like those of
nonsmokers and dif£erent from those of women who smoked in all
pregnancies.
No direct adjustm:ent for age, parit!y.,, and other variables was
reported~ although Yerushalmy stated that the stud'y population was
limited to the births that occurred to women at age 25' years or less:
He notedi that, "In order to adjust for parity, the same comparisons
were performed for firstborn infants only. The numbers were reduced
considerably, but the same tendencies as foundi above were noted."'
However, no data were presented. Primiparous births and births in
teenagers are stronglyy associated with: the delivery of low-birth, weight
infants.. If the pregnancies which occurred among future smokers
included a: predominance of very: young women and priini'parousbirths, the reproductive experiences
of future smokers wouldl tend to
be similar to those of women who smoked during all pregnancies, andl
different from those of nonsmokers.. In the absence of more precise
i'nformationi on actual smoking behavior during pregnancy and more
rigorous adjustment for maternal age, this study does not provide
acriticall test of'thehypothesis that it is the sm:oking, d'uring pregnancy
which is responsible for the higli, proportion of small-for-dtLtes in-
fants born to women who smoke.
Expeximental Stucliea
.,~TL7DIES I.x A~NI3PALS
Tobacco Smoke
Several investigators 1avediemonstlrat'ed that eaposure, of' pregnant.
rats or rabbits to tobacco smoke lead5 to: a reduction of birth «-eig ht
in the offspring, as comparedto controls (23,,8i, 117):. Younoszai, et al.
(117) reported data fronm studies in, rats which indicated that some
agent present in cigarette smoke other than nicotine was responsible
for thereductiion in birth.veight observed. The aut~hors,suggest~ed that
carbon monoxide might also not be responsible for the retardation of

I d'ose-
kre.tte
bduc-
and
i
~ited.
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is inil
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~ous ~
d to ~.
and' ;
6se ~,
tore ~
~ide. ~.
ncy
a nt'
;ht
al.
me
ble:
iat
of
fetall growth; however, the evidence~ presented was inadequate to
support a firm, conclusion.
Haworth and Ford (33) recently extended the experiments of
Younoszai. A group of pregnant rats was exposed t'~o, cigarette tobaccosmoke for 6 to 8 miirutes;
five times, a day, from, days 3 to 20' of ges-
tation. These rats were compared with another group whose food
intake was, restricted to the~ amount actually consumed bythe~tobacco~exposedrats, andl both, were
compared to a welMed control group.
The animals in both experiments were killed on the 21st day of'
restation,, and weights of the entire body~ theliver;and the kidney
of each fetus were recorded' The total average fetal weightof the
;rroup exposed tJo, tobaccosmok~ewassi'gnifiicantlylowertlian that of
both the food-restricted aud' control groups. Thef'etall weigTitsof the
latter hwo~groups werequitesimil'ar: Protein and DNA analyseswere
performed separately on the entire forebrains and hindbrains of the
fetuses and on the entire carcass. I3othDNA and protein were sig-
nificantly and proportionatelyy reduced in, the carcass and hi2idbrains
of the animals exposed to tobacco smoke. This implies that cell number
was reduced and cell size was normal, and suggestst'hat the exposure~
to tobaceo: smoke either inhibi'ted cellular proliferation or acceleratedl
celluhar destruction.
Nicotine
Several workers have: demonstrated that chronic injections of large
closesofnicotineinto pregnant rats resulted' in a reduction of' birth
Wei!ght of the offspring(7;8,,9, 23, 40). Otherinvest'i:gatorshave, de-
termined that trit'ium-labeIled nicotine injected into pregnant rabbits
and' C1{-l'abelled nicotine injected into pregnant mice crossed the
placenta~ tlo; thed'eveloping; embryo and fetus (89, 98)1. Kirschbaum;
et al. (44 found no significant acute effects of small doses of nicotine,
injectedl intravenously into near-term sheep, on blood gas composition,
pH, blood pressure, or heart rate in either the: ewes or their fetuses.
The authors concluded that the influence of' maternal smoking upon
the fetus must result from chronic effects or through the effects of
other variables which they did not study.
Recently,, Suzuki, et al. (94) ~ evaluated the short-term effects of' in-
jected nicotine on thecardiovascular performance, acid~basestatus,
and oxygenation of pregnant female Rhesus monkey-s and their infants
during, the second half of gestation using the mothers as thei'r own
controls. Nicot'inew.as administered either asasingleintrav.enous:
dose of 0.5 to 1.0 n1g. or as a continuous infusion of 100 µg./kg. over
-105-028 0-73-0
1is

a 20-minute period. The' injection of nicot.ine in the larger, single dose
into the mother produced a ri'se in maternal bIood'. pressure and aa
falll in maternal heart rate, and an immediate fall in both fetal blbod
pressure and fetal heart rate followed by persistent hypotension and
tachycardi~al in the fetlus.Subsequent to theinj'ection of1!.0 mg./k~g. ofl
nicotine into pregnant monkeys,, in~ a single dose, significant changes
in the arterial blood of the older fetuses incllud'ed a fall in pH, a rise
in base deficit, and afal'1 in oxygen tension. Carbon dfiox~idetensione remaanedunchanged.Nicotine
inj ected directlyy int'othe fetus prompted
an immediate rise ini fetal blood pressure and a faIl in fetal heart
rate. These responses were similar to those previously seen in the
motliers following a direct injection of' nicotine.. The changes were more
prominent in older rather than in, younger fetu~ses.'TPhe authors sum-
marized their findings by stating that: (a) fetuses in different ges-
tational stages are~ differentially responsive to a given dbse of nico-
tine, probably because of the different sta'gesof devel'opment of' the
autonomic nervous system; (b) diminished intervillous space per-
fusion resulting from vasoconstriction intlheuteri~necirculation ap-pears to be mainly responsible
for the fetal asphyxia following the
injection into the mother, because: fetal hypotension and bradycardia
were not preceded by thet''ransient hypertension seen f'o1lowingthe
direct administration of' nicotineto:thef'etus~;, (ie)the differences be-tween the results obtained'
by Kirschbaumi and by Suzuki~ et A may
reflect either the! considerabledosaged'ifferenees or species, differences;
and (d) the doses which the authors employed were much larger than
those which a human mother would absorb from usual cigarette smok-
ing, but that differences ini tolerance t'o nicotine between the~ Rhesus
monkey and'i humans would imply that the dosages were, in fact,, com-
parable and that, "Hence, it cani be envisaged that the concentrationn
of' nicotine which could be reached in the organism of a smoking
mother would reduce oxygen availability: to the fetus."
Carbon Monoxide
Longo ('Jy5) has reviewed the work of several investigators which
has demonstrated the transplacental' passage of' carbon, monoxide from
mother to fetus in animals. A recent study which related CO, to birtlh
weight was published by Astrup(2),. He found that continuous ex-posure throughout gestation of'
pregpant rabbits' to different levels
of'ambient , carbon monoxide resulted ini a stlatistically sirnificant dose-related' redkiction in
bi~rth-weight (table 2). Theactua1 significance
level was not reportedL
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TaBiE2'.-Effect of' carbon monoxide exposure of pregnant rabbits
onb~irthu.eigTit
f3roup 1, CkrouR2, Group 3,
0 percent 8 to 10 percent 16Ra 1B'percent
COEItl CDnUCOlitx~
Number of' pregnant,rabbits---------- _- 17 14 17
T6tal, number of babies--------------- 116 81 123
Average weight ofi babies in grams----- 53. 7 51. 0 44. 7
JOti.ucE: Astrup, P: (E).
Polycyclic' Hydrocarbona'
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (P:,-~H) suchiasbenzo(a)pyrene(B'_1P)'~ are constituents of'
cigarette smoke whicii, have been impli-
cated in thegeneration of cancers in many animal species (111). N''o,
st'udies! presently available relate benzo(a)pyrene to a reduction inn
birth weight of exposed offspring. Evidence suggests, however, that
BAP does reach and cross the placenta. Aryl hydrocarbon hy&oxy.lase
(AHH)~ is a part of thecytlochrorneP`-45'Q:-contains'ng, microsomal
enzyme system,, present in many t'issues of different species: This
enzyme sy stem isindueed to hydroxylate polycyclic aromatic hydro-
carbons after exposure of' cells to PAH. Several' investi'gators~ have
utilized the inducibility of the enzyme system to demonstrate indirectly
that benzo(a)pyreneand oth~erpolycyclic hydrocarbons reachths~
placenta and fetus.
Welch, et al. (108) extended this work by administering the polly-
cy-.clic liydhocarbon,3-metliy]chola'ntlirene(3-MC), to rats during late
gestation. The metabolism of'benzo(a)pyrene'«as studied in vivo' (us-
ing' trit,iumrlabelled benzo (a) pyrene) and in v itro,AHHI activity was
increased in fetal livers to adult leveli; by pretreatment with 3-MC
Since a relatiivelyhigh dose of poly cy.clic! hydrocarbon was: requiredd
to stimulate enzyme activity in the fletus; compared to the dose which
stimulated placental enzyme activity, theauthors, suggested that theplacentlai may protect the
fat'us, from exposure to polycyclic hydro-
carbons. However, immaturity of the fetal enzymesystlem might also
account: for its apparent relat'iveinsensitivi'tyto polycyclic~ hydro-
carbons. Therefore, an exposure of' the fetus to 1evels of pol'y-
cycliehydrocarbon similar to those experienced by themot''her cannot
be ruled out by the available data.
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Schlede and Merker (86), have studied the effect of benzo (a ) pyrene
administration on aryl hydrocarbon hyd~roxylase activity in the mater-
nal liv.er;, placentlay andl fetus oft1lerat during the latter half of
gestation. The pregnant animals were treated with large oral doses
of benzo (a) pyrene 24 hours prior to saerifice. Control rats had no
detectable levels~ of' aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase in their placentas.
Treatment `vith benzo(a)pyrene resulted in barely detectable placentall
lovelson gestation day 13, but steadily rising values~untlil d~ay1i5; andl
then constant levels thereaf tier. N'oactivity was detectedlinthef'etusesof untireated controls. In
the treated animals, the fetal enzyme activity
rosest'eadilyfromthe 13thtotlhe18t17 day ofgestiation.Theauthorsf concluded that the stiinulaatory
effect of benzo(a)pyrene treatment on
aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity in the fetus demonstrates thatt
benzo(a)pyrene readily crosses the rat placenta.
ST'L; DIEB' Ii1 HII3I:4\ S
Carbon Monoxide
Smokers~ andl their ~~new~born~ infants~ have~ siignificantly ~elevatedl llevels
of' carbon, monoxide as compared with nonsmokers and' theiir infants
(31, 84, 88;116). Recently,,I3aribaud',,et al. (5) studied 50 nonsmokers
and' 27 c.igarette smokers and their neav.borns. Alli smokers inhaled. The
authors foundlthat the~mean level of'C4 contentt in the~blood of non-
smokers was 0'.2i1 volumes percent compared with 0.672 volumes per-
cent in th:e~ blood of smokers~.. The vadues~ for, bl'ood sampl~es~ from the~
umbilacal cords~~ of~ their newborns~~ were 0!352 ' and 0.949 volumes~per-
cent; respectively. AToreov.er, a definite: dose relationship was foundi
betw~eeni CQ~~ levels~~ and number of ciga;rettes 'snioked.
~.'ounoszai,~ et al. (116) found,~ in ad~d~~i'tion to~elev.ated carboxyhemo-
globin levels~ among~ the infant's, of smoking mothe~rs; significant
elevation of' mean capillary hemotocrit's, and significant reduction of~
stan d4rdl bicarbonate levels,, as~ compare'to the~ infant's ~ of nonsmoking
mothers.. Since no evidence for nicotine effects upon blood' glucose,
seru,m~ FFA levels, or urinary catecholamines, or for hypoxia was~~
presentthey concluded that the higher hematocrit levels in the infants
of~ smoking mothers may~ have~ represented~~ al compensatory response~
to the decreased oxygen-carrying capacityy of' tlie blood due to the
presence of'carlaoxyhemoglobin.
Longo (45) pointed out that a level'ofl 9 percent carboxy~hemo l~obin
in thefetus~ i~:s1he eqpivalent of~ a 41 percent~ decrease in fetal blood
flow ~~ or~ fetal hemoglobin concentration. In revie.ving, tl)e~ studies of~
CQ~~ l'evels,in human mothers and theia~new~borns, lse~ made~ the follow~-~
lie!

Frrene iiig comments: "These~ samples were obtained at the~ time of'vaginal.
%tier- delS~-ery~or Cesarean, section and may~not~accuratel'y reflect the~norrnall
~f~ of ~~ <<<il!ues of (~CrOHb)F~ for~ several reasons. The~~ number~ of cigarette&
loses~ ~roioked by~ the~ mothers dnring labor~ may~ be~~ lEss~ than their normal
~' no coidsumption an& was not~ specified in, these~ studies. The~ blbod san7,
~Ltias. p1cs: were collected at varying time periods following~ the ~ cessation
ntal of'sinok~ing. In addition, many~ ofl the~~ samples were probably~ taken~
and c;irly.~in the~~ dav before CO1Hb levels had built up to the~~l~evels~~reached
'uses .ifter~prolbnged~ periods ofl smok~ing~. Thus actual level~s~~of' (CQ'Hb),:;,~
v~ity and (~COItb~)~F~ may be~h~ig)1er than the reported~ values."~~
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I t j The~ results of several studies~ concur~~ thatl~ cigarette~ smok~ing, is~~
Arongly, associated with the induct'i'on of aryl' hydrocarbon hydrox-
vlase~in the~hnma~~n placenta (18;,38; 61'~,~99,~1~09)i. This~ findingiQnplies
that'~ benzo(a)ipyrene or other pollyrcyclic hydrocarbons, reac,h the
placenta. To date, evidt nce to support the passage ofl polycyclic hydro-
ca~rbons~ through the~ placentai to the~~ human fetus has not'~ been
published.
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`'itamin B. and Cyani'de Detoxiification.
-.NTcG'arry and Andi?ews (.l:8) determined serum vitamin Blp levels
in 836women at their first,prenatal clinic visit. They found that the
serumle1-e1s for smokers were signific<antly lower than for nonsmokers.
After adjustment for gest'ationad age, parity, social class, hemoglobin
llevel, hypertension; and maternal «~-eight,sm~okers, still had signifi-
cantly lower levels of Bl,. They also foundl a direct, statistically sig-
nifa'cant dose-response relationship between cigarettes smoked and
serum vit:arni'n B12, level. They again confirmed the relationship be-
tween smoking and low birth weight!. The authors suggested that the
lowered vitamin~ B12 levels reflect a disorder of cyanidedetoxificati~on..
Cyanide is a~ demonstrable ingredient in cigarette smoke (39, 60, 62,,
6'~.'; 68. 74, 94.
Vitamin G
Venulet (1Q5;1~06yZ07)has~ demonstrated that the vitamin C' level
is significantly lbwer in the serum ofl women who smoke cigarettes
during pregnancy, comparedl to values for their nonsmoking counter-
parts.
Possible Mechan:isms.
The following mechanisms, have been proposed for the production
of' lo« birth weight and other unfav.oralilie outcomes of pregnancy
following exposure toci~g~:rettesmoke:

11. Adirecttoxi~cinfiuenceof'constituentis,ofcigarettesmokeupon, the fetus (2; 45, 50; 51, 117).
2. Decreased placental'perfusion (94)...
3'. Decreased maternal appetite and diminished maternal weight
gain, with secondary effects upon the fetus (B, 33,, 36,, 65, 75, 99-
117).
4. A direct effect upon the placenta (36, 57, 65, 110).
5. An osytocic effect on uterine activity (44).
6. A disturbance of vit'amin B'lp metabolism (48).
7. A disturbance of'vitamin C metabolism (105,106,107)~.
Of the potential mechanisms, available evidence suggestls~ that
neither decreased maternal appetiteand, decreased maternall weight
gain nor a, direct effect upon the placenta are responsible for a sig-
nificant reditction in, birth weight. Dxisting, evidence does not permit
firm conclusions ~ concerning the relative significance of the remaining
mechanisms.
Timing of 'th-e Influenee of'Cig°arette Smoking on Birth Weiglzt
Several investigators have published resullts which bear on the time.
period during which exposure to cigarette smoke: most affects fetal
growth. Low,e! (/'6)~ and Zabriskie(;118) have offered evidence whiehsuggests that cigarette smoking
intiuences fetal growth most during
thesecond!halfofpregnancy.Butl'er, et'al.(15)~ found thatthebirtlht weights. of infants of women who
did not smoke after the fourth
month of pregnancy were essentially the same as those of'the infants of'
nonsmokers: Ti his implies that the influence is most probably exerted
after the fourth montifl: of' pregnancy. Hlerriott, et al. (35), however,,
found that women in lower socioeconomic classes who gave up smoking
early in pregnancyt'~endedto have intermediate weight babies as com~-pared with nonsmokers and
persistent smokers, but his numbers of'
women were smallandtheresul't'swerenotst'atistica~llysi;gnQficant:
Underwood, et al. ('100)found thatcigaret-tesrnokingin anysi'ngle
trimester was associated with: a lower birth weight of the infant,
although tliedifferencebetween th~ebirth~ wei~ghts, of infantsofs women who smoked only during a
single: trirnester and infants of non-
smokers was not statistically significant because of small numbers.
Several investigatorshaved'etecteds a nearly constantdi'6ferencebe-tween the birth weights of the
infants of smokers and nonsmkers;
delivered dilring, the last month of pregnancy, following gestations
ofl comparable length [fig. 1, (1~1)].Although this observation: is
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compatible with the suggestion that the influence of cigarette smoking
uponithe, fetus occurs prior to the last montli, of pregnancy, it is based
upon data derived from cross-sectional rather than longitudinall
studies. 'IL'heresult'sofm:anyhuman epidemiological studies~ suggest
that maternal smoking prior to pregnancy does not influence fetal
weight gain (15, 25,46,49;113).
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Tlie use of labelled nicotine (98) and the preparations of autoradio-
grams have permitted the localization of nicot'inewitihinthe~ tissues
of the fetus and mother. Tjalve,,et al. (98) found' high lievels of nico-
tine in the respiratory tract, adrenal, kidney, and intestine of 16- to 18'-
aiiy miee fetluses. The use of other labelled constituents during various
parts of gestation might further the und'erstanding of how certain
ingredients in cigarette smoke produce an impact upon birth weight.
Ilatirorthand: Ford (33) havereported data which su~ggest that the
reduction: of birth weight of rat fetuses caused by the action of the
ingredient(s) of tobacco smoke results from~a reduction ini cell number,
but not in cell size:
Signiicance o ftlie Association
Among all women, in the L nited States cigarette smokers are
nearly twice as likely to deliver low-birth-weight infants as are non-
smokers. Assuming that 20 percent of pregnant women in the United
S'tates smoked cigarettes through the entire pregnancy (extrapolated
from data on changes in smoking behavior during pregnancy collectiedd
for the British Perinatal Mortality Study), taking, into account the
apparently different risks of' delivering: ai small ~ for-dates inf'ant for
Caucasian and non-Caucasian women: who smoke during, pregnancy;
and considering the number of infants with a birth weight less than
2,500 grams born to Caucasian and non-CRucasian, «omen,, an excess
of '~ nearly 43,000 occurred in the 286,000, low-birth-wei'ght'infants
among the3i500;000inflants born in the United Sta.tesin 1968, becausee
of the increased risk among women who smoke of having small-for-
dates infant's.Since neonatal mortality i~s~~ higherforlo-w-birth-weigth infants,
n-ithgestationaI age held constant, the excess of small-for-dates infantsanaong, smoking mothers
would imply a significant excess morta~lityy
risk as we11.
121

Birth Weight Sunmm,a ry
A causal association between cigarette smoking and fetal growth
retardation is supportedl by the following evidence:
1. The results of all 42' studies in which the relationship between
smoking and birth weight was exazn.ined have demonstrated a
strong association: between cigarette smoking, and delivery of
small4or-dia;tes infants. On the average, the smoker has nearlyy
twice the risk of'delivering a low-birth-weight infant as that of'
a nonsmoker.
2. This association has beeni confi'rmed~ by both retrospective andd
prospective study designs.
3. A strong dose-response relationship has been established betw een
cigarette smoking and, the incidence of' low-birth-weight infants.
Available evidence suggests that the effect of smoking upon fetal
growth reflects'. the number of cigarettes smoked daily during a
pregnancy, and~ not the cumulative effect of' cigarette smoking
whichi occurred before the pregnancy~~ began.
4.When a, . variety of known or suspected factors which also exert'an, influence upon birth weight
have been controlded for, cigarette
smoking has consistently been shown to be independently relatedl
to low birth weight.
5. The association has been found in many different countries,
among different populations, and in a variety of' geographicall
settings.
6. New evidence suggests that if a woman gives up smoking by theh fourth month of pregnancy, her
risk of delivering a low-birth-
weight infant is similar to that of'a nonsmoker.,
7. The infants of smokers experience a transient acceleration of
growth~ rate d'uring the first 6 months after delivery, compared
to infants of nonsmokers. This finding is compatible with viewing
birth as the removal of the smoker's infant from a toxic infl'uenee.
8. The results of experiments in animals have shown that exposure
to tobacco smoke or some of its ingredients results in the delivery
of low-birth-weight offspring. New evidence demonstrates that
chronic exposure of'rabbits.to carbon monoxide during gestation
results in a dose-relatled reduction in the birth weight of their
offspring.
9. Data from studies in, humans have demonst'rat'ed that smokers'
fetuses are exposed directly to agents within tobacco smoke; such
as carbon, monoxide, at levels comparable to those which have
been shown to produce low-birth, weight offspring in animals:
122

Cigarette: Snnokiarg, and Fetal and Infant Mortality
In,troduction
Several previous studies of' the relationship between eig,arette smok-
i71g and higher fetall and infant mortality among the.infantls of smokers
have been reviewed in the 19711 and 1972 reports on, the health con-
sequences of'smoking, (10 ; 102). In many of these studies; the authors
combi'ned two or more cat:egoriesoffetal andl infant mortality., Differ-
ent mortality outcomes,, such as spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, andd
ileonatal death,, areinfl.uenced bydiffErent: sets of factors. Among
other factors,, the frequency of' abortion is influenced by congenital
infectipns,hormonal deficiencies,,and cervicall incompetency. In addi-tion to other factors, the
frequency of stillbirth is infl'uenced by pre-
matureseparation~ of~ t'heplacenta,, ut'erineinerti'a,,and dystocia. Along
with other factors, the frequency of neonatal death is influenced by
,-estational maturity, birth injuries,, and delivery room and nursery
care. Separate an:alysis ofl the relationship of cigarette smoking to
each different mortality outcome; with control of the unique set of
factors which influences~ it, mayfacilitatle~ understanding, of the
rel'ationship..
Sp:ontaneous Aborti,an;.
Previous epidemiologicall and experimental studies of the relation-
ship between spontaneous abortion and cigarette smoking reviewedl in
the 1971 and 1972 reports on the health: consequences of'smoking (101,.
102) fornrithe basis of the following;statements:
The results of several studiesY both: retrospective and prospective,
have demonstrated ai statistically significant association between ma-
temlal' cigarette smokin; and spontaneous abortion (43, 65, 70, 99,
118). Data from some of these studies have documented a strong, dose-
response relationship between the: number of cigarettes smoked and
the incidence of spontaneous abortions (70, 99, 118).. In general, vari-
ables other than cigarette smoking (!e.g., maternal age, parity,; health
desire for the pregnancy,, and use of'medicat'ion), which may influence
the incidenee of spontaneous abortions, have not been controlled. Tihe
results of the one study, in which adjustment for the woman'ss desiree
for the pregnancy was performed, indicated that after such adjjust-
irnent cigarette smoking during the pregnancy retained an associ'ation
with spontaneous abortion ofborderli~nesignificance (43). The time
period during whsch~ cigarett',esmok~ing might'exertan influence on
the incidence of spontaneous abortions has not been determined. Abor=
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tions have~ been prod!u~cedl in animals only witlilarge d~oses~ of nicoti'ne~
(w3; 96;,104); tlie, releva~nce~ of~ these ~~ stu~dies ! for huQnans~~ is uncertain.
SPO\iTASEOOLS ABORTIO1i'i SLM3L!:1RY
Although several investigators have found a significantlyhigher,
dose-related incidence of' spontaneous abortion~ amongcigarett'esnokers as compared to nonsmokers,,
the Iack of control of'significant
variables other than cigarette smoking does not permit a firm con-
clusion to be drawn about the nature of the relationship.
AStiZlb'irtJi
Epidemiological: , studies of the~ association~ between czgarette smok-
ing and stillbirth previouslW reviewed in the 1971 and! 1972 reports,on~
the lieal'th~ consequences of smoking (101, 102) form~ the basis for thee
following stat'ements:.
In one group of' retrospective and' prospective studies, a higher still~
birth rate was fonndl for the infants of smokers as compared to thosee
of nansxiokers (14; 25, 43)'., In another group: of retrospective and
prospective studies, no significant difference was detected in the still
birth rate among the infants of'smokers and nonsmokers (16, ,20; 85,,99,
100) . Differences in study size, numbers of cigarettes smoked, or the
presence or absence of' controli of variabl'es,suchas age and parity,
which may influence stillbirth rates, were probably not sufficient to
explain the differences in results olitained'.
Several recent epid'emiological studies have added t'o our under-
stand'ingof the: relationship between cigarette smoking, and stillbirthL
Niswander and Gordon(63) have reported data from 39;2115 ' preg-
nanciesfolllowed prospectively and collectedl between 196Jandl 196'Bat 12 university hospitals, in
theUnitedl S'ta.tes.A random sample of
women who presented to hospital prenatal clinics were:enrolled in the
study. The authors reported no increase in stillbirths among whi~te
smokers as compared with white nonsmokers.11: higher incidence of'
sti'llbirths! was, foundl among, black women who smoked than among nonsmoking black women, and a
dose-response relationship with
eigarettessmoked was suggested, although thefind'ings did not attain
statistical significance: Tkeresults~were~e not adjusted for other vari-
ables. FR'ush and Kass, (82) flound, in a prospective study of 3,296
pregnancies at Boston CityHospital,, anonsignificantincreasein
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~-.ti1lbirthsamong white women who smoked, but a: statistically sig,-txifi-
rant increase in stillbirths among,black women who smoked (P<0:02).
'f 1'iese findings are consistent wit1l, those previously outlined by
Ir'r~irier,etl al. (25) and Underwood, et al., (99),.,
R.umeau-RRoquette (81), in a prospective study of 4,824 pregnancies
n Paris, demonstratedd that the risk of stillbirth, was significantly
Isi'grher for cigarette smokers than for nonsmokers (P<0.001). The
:u,rthors, also presented evidencet'hat a woman with either a previous:
.
:,tiiillbirthi or at least one prior infant weighing less than 2,500': grams,
at liirth was significantly more likely to have a future stillborn infant
riian a woman witlioutsuch an, obstetrical history. After previous
0i,.,xetricalhistorywas controlled,smokerostill retained ai statistically:
~i(rsifiicant increased risk of subsequent stillbirth as compared to non-
~nu0ltiers (P<0.01). Of further interest was the, finding that among
Nvomen who previously had delivered only living infants, weighing
over 2,500 grams; cigarette smoking had no influence on the stillbirth~
ratie:
Previous experimentall studies were reviewed in the 1971 and 1972
n-ports on the health consequences of smokin:g(101,,102),, Theauth:ors
(lFinonstrated that exposure of' pregnant rabbits to, tobacco, srnokeand
pregnant rats tc large doses of injpcted nicotine resulted in, a signiff-
cant increase in stillbirths(7;8;,23; 87).,
STILLBIRTH SVJibLARY
1. The results of recent studies suggest that cigarette smoking is
most strongly associateell tiv ith a higher stillbirth rate among
women who possess less favorable socioeconomic surroundings or
an unfavorable previous obstetrical history. In the United States,
black women have higher stillbirtli, rates than «hitewomen:. The
finding that cigarette smoking is associated with an even greater
difference between the stillbirth rates of the two groups merits
speciall attention. These findings may provide at least a partial
explanation for the lack of ai significant difference in stillbirth
rates between smokers and nonsrnokers, which some investigators
have found.
2. The results of'experiments in animals demonstrate that exposure
to tobacco smoke and some of its ingredients, such as nicotine,
can result in a significant increase in stillbirth rate.
nzs

Late Fetal'anel Neonatal Death8
ConsidErable variation has~~ occurred~ in~ the definition of'the~ study~
population among the~ studies in which the relationship~ of~ cigarette~
smoki~ng~ to~~ fetaL mortality~ (other~ tHan~~ abortion) and~ early infant~
mortality was examinedL The most commonly identified study popula-
ti'ens, ~ have been perima,ta~ll deaths, neonatal~~ dea~t'hs,, and late fetal plus
neonatal deat~hs:~Perinatal deathsare a~combination of'late~fetal deat~hs~
(,i.e~.,,stillborn i'nfa.nts~)~~ and deat!h~s,occurrinb within the~fi'rst week of'
life.~ Neonatal deaths include~ all~ deaths~~of~ liceborn infalYts~ within the
first 28 days of life:.
FJPIDEMIpI o('ICAL SrLTDIF,S
tifost~of~the earlier~epi'demiological studies of the association between
cigarette~ s:noking and late fetal plus ~~neonatali mortality w~ere~ reviewed
in~ the: 1971 and' 1972'~ reports on t!h~e° health consequences~~ of smoking
('1n'1, 102). A revietiv~ of previously unreported' stud'~ies~ (67, 76), as~ weTli
as~ reexamination of preu~~iou~~sly~ cited' studies,, forms~ tlre~ basis of' the~
following statements :
The results~ of several prospective and' retrospective~ studies~ indicate~
a statlistically~~ s~ignificant~ higher 1at~e~ fetall and/~or~neonatal mortality~
for the infants of' smokers compared to those of' nonsmokers (~1:/; 17;.
N:3~.¢3)~.~T'he results~of other~prospective~and'retrospective ~stud'nes iden-
tified no significant difference~ in the~ mortality~~ rates~~ between: the in-
fants fants of smokers and nonsmokers (20,~F~<5, 7'3;, 85, 100~~, 115~)~.
If mortality rates.; ere compared' for those infants of smokers and'
nonsmokers weighing less than 2.500 grams, the infants of nonsmokers
apparently had a~ considerably ~ hi bher ~ risk ~ tli~an ! did those of ~ smokers..
Th~e~~ resu~ltsof recent st~udiesi~ coupled' with a critical revie«~ of~ the
design and analysis~ of~ previous~ studies, and a reexamination of~ exist-
ing data, m~ay~~ provide at~ least a partiali esplanation~ of~ discrepanciles~
between the results of previous studies..
Comparisonsaf' the lfortalit' v ~ kisks~ of Low-B'i'rth-Weiriht Infants
Born toStnokersun~d Nonsmokers
Theperinatal' perinatatmortaliinfantsneighing, less than 2,500
grams appears to be Iower for those infantsborn to women who
smoke ditri~ng pregnancy than for those horiv t'o nonsmokers (table
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3)., fIIoR-ever, available evidence shows that cigarette smokers'' i'nfants
tend tohe, small4or-gest<ational age rather than gestationallypre-
matlure. Hence, within a given birth .zeight group,, the infants of
.fnokers are, on the average, gestationally more mature tlian those of'
nonsYnokers. Data collected bytlie National Centerfor H'ealthSta-
tisties (703)~ d'emonstirat'e that wit'hina given birth weight group, theluore gest~ationalIy mature
an infant, the lower is its mortality risk
(fig. 6). Thus; the difference in perinatal mortality ri'sks experienced
1,v theinfantsof cigarette smokers and nonsmokers, within~comparablelnrtli weight classes, reflect~s
thefacts that the: two setsofl infants are
not of the same average: gestational age, andi that gestat~ionall age is
a major factlor infliiencing late fetali and neonatal mortality. An accu-
rate est'iinate of' comparative mortality risks for the: infants of cig-
arette smokers and nonsmokers~ requires adjustment for gestational
af-T:e_.
For infants of comparable gestational age, lower birth weight i's asr
sociatedi with higher mortality (fig. 6). Since infants of cigarette
~mokers llave;, on the: average, lower birth weights than the infants of
nonsmokers, within groups of comparabl'egestationall age, cigarettesutokers'' infants should
experience higher mortality rates than nan-
<nroke rs"Inf'antsof'simidar gestational ages-f n: a~~ recent review,A!Teyer.md Comstock (51)
provided a more extensive discussion of these
hoints.
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'I'ABLE 3.-Comporison of the: perinatal' mortality, for infants weighing
less than 2,500 grams,, of smokers and: nonsmokers
Perinatal mortality rate (deaths per.1,000
live births)
Author, reference
Smokers
I+7dnsmoWers
L'nderwood, et al. (100)---------------------- , 187 269
Ontario Department of' Health (67):------------ , 232' 300
Kullknder and Kallen (43)-------------------- 129, 139,
IRantakallio (76)--------------------------,--- 288' 344
Yerushalmy1(112)~:Black women--------,---,---,------------- 114 202'
White! women--------------,------------- 114 218.
Butler and Alberman, (14)-------------------- 269 284
I' Reported neonatal mortality rates only.
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Figure 6,-Neonatal mortality rates among single white' births in hospitals (by
detailed birth weight and specified gestation groups: United States).
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JANUARY 11 TO' MARCH 31,,1950'
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SOURCE: U.S. PublicNealth ServiceWistional CenterfarHeatthiStatistics(103):
Recent Studies
The Ont'ario PerinataI bfortality Study (66;, 67) was conducted'
among~ 10! teaching hospitals during~ 1960, and 1061.~ In this~ retrospec-
tive~~ sthtdy~ of 51,490~~ pregnancies,, a statistieally~ significant increase
in the perinatal mortality rate~ was, demonstrated for~ smokers" in-
fants as compared with those of nonsmokers; the infants of smokers
experienced an overallrel~atii-.e~ risk of 1.2'7~ (P<0~.001)~. 117foreover,,tli~e~
investigators found a,stati~stical2y~significant d~ose-response~ re'lat'ionship~~
between, the amount of~ ciga'rettes~smoked and the perinatall mortality
~
rate (P<0.001) (fig. 7).
128

Figure 7.-f?erinatal' mortality rate per 1,000' total births by cigarette smoking
category.
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Total births:: 28;358! 15,328 6,581
(P C0:00T)
,
SOURCE: Ontario Department of Health (66).
Recently ~ Butler et aL (15) further analtyzed the British Pdrinatali
Mortality Study. They found' a highly significant association between
maternal smoking after the fourth month, of pregnartcy and both
late fetal and neonatal deaths. Infants of smokers had an increase in
the late fetal~ mortality~ rate of' 30 percent',, and an increase~ in the~ neo~--
natall mortality rate of~ 26~~ percent compared to: the i:nfant,s, of' non-
smokers.. The overall mortality ratio of late fetal plus neonatall deaths
was 11.28 I (P<0.001I). Given the large number of women in the study;
a~nd the, significant changes~ in smoking~ behavior which occurredyv they fonnd~ it~ possible
t'oconsider~~ the~~ effect of a change in smoking
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behavior between the beginning of' pregnancy and the fourth month
on~ late fetal and neonatal' mortality. A statistically,~ significant and'
dose-related increase in mortality occurredl among the infants, of
inothers who~continued to~snioke~after~the fourt~hi month of pregnancy,
as compared with the infants of nonsmokers and those of women who
smoked prior to the: pregnancy but gave up smoking by the fourtlu
month of gestation.
Niswander and Gordon (63) reported dat'a, from the prospective
Collaborative Perinatal S'tudy~ of the National Institut~e~ of Neurologi-
cal cal Disease and Stroke. The 39;215 pregnancies registered at 12 uni-
versity hospitials in~ the Unitedi States~~ .were~ almost equally ~ dividedl
between black and white w.omen~,, Ti hey~ found a nonsignificant increase~~
in perinatall mortality among tiie inf ants of white smokers as compared
t~~o~ those~ of w.hi~te: nonsmokers;~ the~ overall mortality ratio was: . 1.13
~
( P>Q:1)'.. The infants of' blacl: smokers, however, had a significantly
highe~r~ mortality~~ risk than: did~ those~ of black~ nonsmokers'~;~~ the mor-
tali'ty~ ratio~ was~~ 1,1'8 (P<~©.02)~. 'Moreov~~er,~ a defi'nQte~ dose-response re~-~
lationship~ between cigarettes smoked by pregnant mothers~ and
mortality~risk was~shown for black infants. Bdack~ Nvomen were~not~ed ta
smoke~ s~i;taificantly~ fewer cigarettes, on the~ a~v~erage~,~ than white~
women.
Rush andi I%ass~~ (;82)~ found, iiYa prospective~~ study ~ of 3,276 ' preg-
nancies folliowed, at Boston City IlIospital,~ a nonsignificant increase~
iiu late fetal plus neonatal mrtal~i'ty~ rate~ among~ the infants! ~ of wMilte~
women who~ sTnoked' as~ compared to~~ tlsose~ of u-hite~ nonsmokers, How-~
ever, the infants of'black women who smoked hadia statistically sig-
ni~fica~nt, increase in mortality rate compared to~ the infants~ of' black~~k
nons~mokers~ (P<~0.01)~. The overall mortali'ty~ ratio~ for bl~ack~ womeni
w~~li~o~~ smoked was 1.86: Ti he difference in frequency~ of'stillbi'rt!h among~,
the infants~~oY smokers~and!nonsmokers~~was~the prirnary~factor which
contributed& to~~ the~ signi'fieance~ of the~ diffQrence, in~ mortali'ty~ rates.
Analysis of Previously Reportedi S'tudies
Prev~iously~report'~edstudoescanbe,div~~idedi~nt'o~~two~groups~: _t group
in which the~ late~ fetal plus~ neonatal mortality~ rates~~ for~ iirfints born,
to~~ cigarettle~ smokers, were significantly higher than those~ for, the
infants born to nonsmokers, and, a group in which no significant
ditferences~ we~re! detectedl in the~ mortaluty~ rates for the infants bornn
to smoker.s, ~and, nonsmokers. The ~results°of~several stadies~~ (14. 17, 25,
55;,84; 92) yieldedi m~ortalitv~ ratios rangin(r ffarni L3'8~ to: 1.78.
The result's of other~ studies (20. G-5.~ 7'6. 87, l00~;~ 115) yiel~ded'y
mortali'ty~
ratiosrangisig~~ from 1.01 to 1.0i~: Both groups contained' retrospeetive~
and proshect~ive~studies:of~ comparable, size. The two groups did differ
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th
W
bf'
e
~il<ruii3cantlyr; hotiti-ever,~tiith regardl to control of variablesother than
(-i-;aettesniokinb whichintluenceperinatal mortality.
1'actors~ «'hich~ Influence~ P'erinatal \Iortality~ Other Than Smoking
liutller and Alberman (13),: on da~ta from tlie~ British Porinatal'
ylortttility~ Study, emhloyed a 1bgi~t transform~ation analysis of'variance;.
;ui~d dernonstrated that mate~rnall hei9lit, age parity, soeiall class, andl
~-cvere~ preeclampsi'a all had a significant independent effect on~ late
fx>tal and neonatal mortality. Rumeau-Roquette (81~)~ provided evi-
(lencetllatai previous~st~illb~i'rth or~l'o.v~-birtli, «eightinfa,ntsign2ficantly~
increased the~~ risk of~ a future stillbirth. 'Mey,er and Comstock (51~~)'
i)rov~ided exam~plles,of~ho.r the diffe~rentiall distribution of smoking and.
,>tlier~flactors«-hi~ch, are~related to:perinatal mortality, in a population
L)f Nroznen, can bias data (e:g., black women have higher perinatal
iu~rtality rates tlhan~ do~~ white: women,~ but black~ women smoke, less
t4ati white women do. 1-Ience nonsmokers will tend' to include more
N)lack~ .v~oiuen,~ and slmke~rs, more~~ «-h~ite~~ women. Thu's~ will tend to~
reduce: any differences between the groups in mortality rates.) Meyer
and C:omstock~ concluded,~ "Comparisons,of~ mortality~ rates of smokers'~~
and nonsmokers' babies should be made within subgroups according
to parity, socioeconomic st!atus, and other appropriate risk factors,
aud not separated by~ birth~ .veight."~
I'n three of~~ tlhe~ studies in which a~, sign~ificantly~ higher~ mortality risk ~
was demonstrated for the infants of smokers; adjustment for other
variables~ was~ performed. The~ results~ indicated that, after such ad.-~
jitstment a significant independent association between cigarette
sinoking and infant mortality persisted (l3' andl 15, 17,, 81). Of the
studies Which revealed no significant increase~~ in mortality risks forr
smokers'~ infants,~ one (115)~ controlded! for race~ alone. Hence, at least~~
part of'the: discrepancy~ in results~ between tihe~ two~~ gloups~ of~ studies
may be etplai'ned by a: of'control of variables other than smoking.
Another possible, at least partial, explanation of the discrepancy
in results obtained by the two sets of studies is that cigarette smoke
may be: more harmful to the fetusesof certain women than, others.
Several de~velbping~lines~of evidence suggest that this!may~belhe case;~
1~.~ Ciga~rettesmoking~andsociioeconomic~background..
Butler, et al. (15) noted that when data from the British Perinatal.
lliortality~~'StudV ~ are~ groupedl by social class~~ of~ the~~ mother's~ husband,
the late fetall plusneonatal mortality ratio for infants of smokers and
nonsmol:ers in the upper social classes I and II i's 1.110; the mortality
ratio for the: entire sample: was 1.28. Rus1i and Kass (82): reviewed the
British Perinata~ll liortali'ty~ S~~tud3-,~ along, , R ith several ot~h~er~ studies,
and noted that all have shown the strongest association between excess
infant mortality and ci'garette smoking among the infants of those
495-028 0-73-10
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mothers with lower socioeconomic status. Comstock andi Lundin (16)
found excess mortality among, smokers'' infants almost entirely con,
fined to those whose fathers had a, grammar school education or less.
Several of'the studies wliicli revealed no, significant difference in mor-
tality among the, infants of smokers and nonsmokers were conducted
in predominately middle class populations (20;100;115).
2. Cigarette smoking and previous obstetrical'egperience.
Peterson, etal.(72) had rigidi criteria for entry into, his study
population of 7,740 women. He included only those women who pre-
viously had healthy infants with a birth weight greater than 2;500
grams. He found a significant decrease in birth weight among smokers'
infants, but no significant increase in mortality rates. Rumeau-
Foquette (81) found that among women who previously had delivered
only healthy infants weighing more than 2,5C)0' grams, cigarette smok-
ing was not associated with an increasedl risk of stililbirth ;~ among those,
women with a previous stillbirth, smoking was significantly associated
with increased risk of a f'uture stillbirthL
3. Cigarette, smoking and genetic diff'erences.
T1ie eonsistentfind2ng that the mort'alit'y risk for tlie.infants of blackk
smokers is higher than the risk for the inf'ants of' whi'te smokers, even
when the socioeconomic background for both: is~ ostensibly similar,
suggests that genetic factors also may interact: with smoking to pro-
duce enhanced risk (82, 99, 115).
A:vaiiable evidence suggests, that if' those women,, who are already
likely to have small infants for reasons other than smoking, smoke
during pregnancy, their infants willi be most unfavorably affected.
This means that the women in the United States whose infants will
be most aff'ected by cigarette smoking are:those who have an unfavor-
able socioeconomic situation, ha:ve a history of previously unsuccessfull
pregnancies, and are black.
E%PPRIbfE _r'TAL ..~'rI'D3ES'
Studies in AnimalS
Studies previously reviewed in the 1971 and 1972 reports oni the
health consequences of smoking (101, 102) demonstrate that exposure
of'rabbits: and rats to tobacco smoke and& to~ injections of large doses.
of nicotine resulted in significantlly increased late fetal' and neonatal
mortality. Astrup (2) has recently studied the effect of continuous
exposure of pregnant rabbits to carbon monoxide on stillbirth rates.
He found a significantly higlier,, dose-related incidence of stillbirths
and deaths within thefirst 24' hours of life among the offspring of the
experimental rabbits('table 4').
T32

T:~I3t-E 4.-E-ffe~et~ of' carbon monoxide exposure~ of ~ pregnant rabb'i~ts~ on
b'i,rth ~ we ight and ~ neonatal mortality
Group 1, Group 2;, Group 3,
0percenG 8 to 10 percent 16to18pereentCOHb COHb COHb
tudy
, pre.
3,500'
kers,
leau,
ered
inok-
hose
ited
*k
wen
ilar,
)'ro-
idy
ake
!ed.
-Vi1'1.
or-
ful.
;he
ire.
5es
al
us
!s;
iss
le
Number of' pregnant,rabbits------------ 17' 14 : 17~
11,,ta1 number of'babiesL ---------------,- 1116' 81 1!23'
rtillhorn and' ~ babies, ~ died with~infirst 24
huurs------------------------------
t 1
z' 8'
a 44
(E<q:001)
~ 1. peree~,nt:
:.10~ perc~~ent.
- 36 peroent.
5uurce:: Astrup.:P (I)i~
Studies in H'umTns
Some investigatiors~ have~ examined' the~ causes o~f' death among the
infants of'smokers as comlaared with those of nonsmokers. Comstock,
ct al. (17) found that infants of smokers died more frequentlyy of' as-
phyxia, atelectasis,,and immaturity. Kullander and Ka12en (43) ~ f'Gundd
abruptlio placentae~~ signifi~cantly~ increased as a cause of~ death~ am~ong~
smokers' infants. Bntler~and Alberman~ (14)1 found' little~ difference~ in~
the~ death rat'es~ for the inflants~ of~ smoke~rsand nonsmokers from iso-
immunization and malformations, but higher rates were found for
srnokers'~ in~fants~~ in the~~ groups~ in~ which~ death occurred before~ or ~ d,ur-
ing labor, or in which death resulted from massive pulmonary hemor-
rhage, or pulmonary infection. As the authors noted, "The latter three:
are conditions known to be associated with small-for-dates babies:''"
They pointed out that distribution of causes, of'~ dea,th~ in the~~ sm~oking,
group could be accounted for almost entirelyrby the exc.ess of low-birth-
weight ba'bi'es., Th~is~support'sthe~ conclusion that the~ mechanism whieh~
a ffects birth weight al'so~influences mortality.
SIG15i IFICANCE' OF. THE' ASSOCI ATION
The fallowi~ng~calculation is offered to~gil.esom,e~idea of t'he~order of
magrn~itude~ of increased late fetal and neonata~l~~, mortal'ity~ associated
w~it1l ci'garette smoking during~~pre~;ixancy. If Nvomelr who smoked dur-

ing'pregrlancy in the United, States had an elev ation in risk of 28 per-
cent for late: fetal and' neonatal mortality, as~ dcrrionst'rated by Butler,,
et a1. (l5)~ for Britain, Scot~land,, and' Wales, and if~ ?0~~ percent~ of
pregnant women smoked throughout the pregiiancyyl the higher risk
of'stil'lbirth and neonatal death for the infa'ntis of m'others who smoke
cigarettes during pregnancy would account for approximately 4,600 of'
the 87,263 stillbirth~ and neonatal~ deaths~ in the United Sta'~tes~ in 1'968~.
LATE hETAL AND rVTFO'ZV'ATAL DEATH SU3T3SA$Y
A strong, probably causal association between cigarette smoking,
and' higher lat'e fetal and'i infant mortality among smokers' infants is,
supported by the following evidence :.
1!. Twelve retrospective and prospective studies have revealed a sta-
tistically significant relationship between cigarette smoking andd
an elevated mortalityri~sk among the infantlsof smokers. In threeofl these studies, of sufficient
size to permit adjustment for other
risk factors, a highly significant independent association between
smokng and'mortality was ~established. Part of the discrepancy in
results between these' studies and those in which ai significant'
association between smoking and infant mortality was not dem-
onstrated may be explained by a lack of' adjustment for risk fac-
tors other than smoking.
2. Bvidence is converging,to suggest that cigarette smoking may be
more harmful to the infants of some women than others; this may
also, in part,,explain the discrepancies between the results of tlhe'.
studies in which a significantly higher mortality risk was shownn
for the infants of smokers compared to those of' nonsmokers and
the results of' those studies in wh'ich' significant dh' fferences in
mortality risk were not found.
3. Within groups of similar birth weight, tlie infants ofl nonsmokers
appear to have a higher mortality risk than do the infants of' ciga-
rette smokers. This results from the fact that the infants of non~-
smokers within such similar birth weight groups are' on the
average gestationally less mature than the infants of' cigarette
smokers. Available evidence indicates that within groups of sim-
ilar gestational age; infants of lower birth weight experience a
higher mortalityy risk. Since the infants of cigarette smokers are
I Based an extrapolatiom of' data on smoking behavior change during pregnancy fromm
the British Ferihatal Mortality study; which probably yields a conservative estimate.
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er-
ler,,
of'
isk
ke
of'
68.
!g
is
smalMor-gestational age, one should expect that if theinfantsof'
cigarette smokers and nonsmokers are compared within, similar
gestational age~ classes, the~ infantsof' cigarette~ smokers would
have the higher mortality rate.
1. The results of'recent studies have documented a statistically sig-
nificant dose-response~relationship between the number or amount
of cigarettes smoked and late fetal and neonatal mortality.
5. New data suggest that if a woman gives up smoking,by the fourth
inonth of pregnancy, she will have: the same riskof~ incurring a
fetal or neonatal loss as a nonsmoker.
f,; Avai1'ableevidencestrongdysupports cigarette smoking as one
cause of fetal growth retardation. The causes of' excess dea.t'hss
anonb the infants of' smokers~ are those associated with small-
for-dates babies.
;. Data fronl experiments in animals have demonstrated that expo-
sure to tobacco~ smokeorsome~of its, ingredients, such as nicotine
or carbon monoxide, results in a significantincreaseinl'atefetal
and or neonatal' deaths.
S. The results of studies in humans have shown that the fetus of
a smoking mother may be directly exposed to agents such as
carbon monoxide within tobacco smok~e;, at levels comparabletothosewhichIhavebeen shown
to~prodh.tcestilllbirth inexperionental'
animals.
Sex Ratib,
9
0
_Ylthough a number of small studies have found a, slight,
usuallystatisticallynonsigpificant,increasein the proportion of female infants
born to snlokersthe three~largest studfiesof'Underwood,et al., (418;505F:
pregnancies)~,Butller(15',791 pregnaneies),and Mac'M'~ahon (']i2,1155,
pregnancies) have found similar infant sex ratios among, both smok-
inm and nonsmokiilg: mothers, withtheetpected slight excess, of malesalnOn(r each (tlble5).
Suonm-ary
Arail'ahle~~ evidence strong~ly~ i'nd~icates that maternal cigarette smok~-
iRig do:,s~ not inftnence the sexrat'ib~of newborn infants.
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135
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9
0

71`ASLE 5.-P'roportian of' made infants d'elivered' ta smokznq dnd' non,
smoking rrcotfCers
Author
reference Pre
na
cie Proportion of male
lntants
Stat'istical
i
ifi
,
g
n
s
Smokers
rihon-
smokers c
gn
cance
Underwood, et al. (100)_--..-------_---- 48,505 .518 .519 None.
Butler and,Alberv:nan (1'4)-------------- , 15,791 . 518 .516 Do.
IG'1ac1VDahon,, et aii (49)-----,------------ 12, 155 .513 .512 Do.
Kullander and Kallen (13) ------------- 6,363 ' .515 .501 Do.
Reinke and I'lenderson, t(78)------------ 3,,156 .,49B .517 ' Do.
Frazier, et al.t (2'~6)--------,---,-,--------- 2,915 . 472' . 505 Do.,
(P >-0.05)
Kizer (4$)---------------------------- 2, 095 .502 A93 ' None.
Herriott,,etlal. (36)-------------------- 2,745 .492 .517 Do.
Ravenholt, et a1 (77)------------------- 2,052 .501 .533 P<0.05
Lowe (46)'---------------------------- 2,042 . 532 .529 None.
Ritssell} et a1. (83)--------------------- 2, 002 .513 .512 Do.
I Black women.
Congenital Malformations
Previous epidemiological stud7es which examinedi the relationship.
Betw,een cigarette smokiiig and congenital malformations were re-
viewed in the 1971 andi 19'72 reports on the health consequences of'
srnoking (101,,102). Recently, the authors of the Ontario Perinatal
Mortality Study (66, 67), a retrospective study of' 51,490 births, re-
ported no, difference in malformation rate for the infants of' smokers
and' nonsmokErs. The various studies of the association between ciga-
rettesmokingand congenital malformation have differed'signifieantly
with regard tostudydesign, the type of ' population sampled, sample
size and number of infants with malformations, the deffnition of` mal
forrnati~on, and results~ (;tabTe6')~. Previous experimental workk wasreviewed' in the 1971 and~
1'972'
reports on the health consequences of smoking (101, 102). The chsck
embryo has been empioyed in recent studies, Thedi'reet application of'
nicotine to tlhee embryo results in cephalic hematomas (26), , malforma-
tions of the cervical vertebrae (93), and anomalies of the heart (27),
depending, upon dose of' nicotine and period of incubation in which
eaposureoecurs: Anomalies of't1ielimbs of chicken embryoscan~ alsobeinduce& byexposureofithe egg to
high levels of carbon monox-
ide U).
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~al
ce
D5)'
x
'fnBLE' 6'.-llelati.ue risk of congenital malforr>zati.on for infants of
e~'rtarette~ smok'ers~ and nonsmokers, comparing available studies~ with
rr~garrl to study , design, st~udy~ popula:tion,, sample~ size, numb~er~~ of ~
infants' with malfaematinns,~ a'nd~~ defi,nitibn of malformati~on
Author, Study~design~~ Study~ population~
re ference .
Sample
size Infants
with
malfor=
mations Relative
risk Definition,af'
SSijNS malformations
Lo,ve -------- Retros;pective. Stillborn plus 24-hour
h
dp 2,042 23 1:36, Major.
at
s.
('crostock, et al. ----- do--------- Neonatal deaths-----,.-,
230
37
.31 bfaJpr, cause of
death
1'erushalmy(11E): Prospective.-- Infants,Iess than.
695
59 .
.57, Illajon.
2,500 g.
0=1.tario D'epait-
Retrospective-, Stillborn plus 1st« 51,,490 1,744 .97
c:ent of,Ilealth week deaths plus
7). survivdng infants;.
P,ulerand kl- do--------- Stillborn plus neo- 7;123 1,382 1.19 bia)orcause of1
t;iman (14). natalldeaths. death..
liullsnder and
Prospectit e---, (a) Stillborn pluss neo-
natal deaths
plus remainder 137 43I 1125'
taJor' and minor
Sslnn (.yJ). ofldeaths, to age
malformations:
1.
(b) Surviving infants
to age 1. 4; 903 700 1.06
edrick, et al.
etrospectlve_ (a) t!Stillborn plus
neonatal deaths r
and deaths to
age l,t'sur-
vlvors 3 to age
T. 1'7,418 88' 1.55 (1).
(b) i Neonatal deaths r
(3-month
study). 7,822 ' 204, 1107 (o).
t kntopsyproven congenital cardiac malformationi
%Clinically determined congenital heart disease.
Congenital 3lal f'brmation Summary.
Given the considerable variation in study desib y study population,
sample size, number of' affected infants; definition of malformation,
and results, no conclusions can be drawn about any relationship
betcveen, maternal cigarette smokin;, and congenitaL malformation at
thepresenttime:
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Lactation
Introduotion
The following, section is a review of available evidence which bears
upon any interaction between cigarette smoki;ng and'] actation. Empha-
sis is placed upon the relationship of cigarette smoking to the quantity,
of milkproduced, tothe~ presenceof' constit'u~entsofcigaret'te,smokewithin the milk, and to effects
upon the nursing infant medRatledd
throughi changes, in either the quantity of milk available or the sub-
stances within the milk.
Epidemiological Studies:
Underwood, et al., (99), in a study of 2,000 women from various
sociall and economic strata, observed a d'effnite but statisticaldyy insig-
nificant trend toward more frequent inadequacy of breast milk pro-
duction among, those smoking mothers who attempted tla nurse
compared to nonsmokers.Mi12s (52)1ini a study of 520 women, found that among womenwho
irid'hcatedi either a desire to nurse or no desire to nurse yet continuedl
to nurse beyond 10 days, and who had delhuered their first 1i've-born
infant, t'he! average period of nursing for mothers who smoked was
significaiitly shorter than for nonsmokers,, 1i'oreover, among the 244
mothers w hohadgiven up smokingduring, at least the fina13! mont'hs of' their pregnancies,, the
average length of' nursimg wasid'ent'iical to
that of tlhe nonsmokers: There was no~ significant difference between
smokers and nonsmokers with regardi to complete inability to nurse
thei'roffspring. This study isdifl'icult to, interpret because the author
did not determine the reason(s) for the discontinuation of nursing,
among the women.
Experimental Studies
STiJDIEs! . I-N ~ A~riPI1MTAP,s~
Nicotine
Infl'uence on the Lactation, Process
Blake and'i S'awyer~ (12)~ studied the~ influence of subcutaneously
i'njected& nicotine~ (4 mg~. total over a 5~~-minute~~ period) upon lactation
in the rat.~ They found that nicotine inhibited the suckl2ng-ind'uced!
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iears
pha,
itityaokey
ated
sub-
ious
sig-
>ro-
irse.
~
vho
iied
brni
,vas
24
ths
l' to
een
;rse
hor
ing
Jy
:)n
~d
rise in prolactin, Noeffect of injected nicotine wasd'ernonstrat;ed for
osytocin secretion since milk release was not blocked.
Wilson (110) examined the effectis of nicotine supplied through
,lriillkingwater (0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 mg. daily) on the weight gain of
nu2-sing rats. Apparently, the nicotine had been available throughout
(restation as «-.ei'1because tlie~authorcommented on a redluction in litter
size among the experi2n.ental' groups; more or lpss proportionate to the
(lose of nicotine; hence, a prenatal effect could not have been dis-
tiiig-uished from a postnatal one. Average birth weight was similar for
i-xperimentall and1control groups. No difference in weight gain was seen
fr any of' the groups. The lack of impact on birth weight suggests
that dbse was lower than that used in other studies..
Presence of' Nicotine in the Milk
Hatcher and Crosby~~ (32)~, using~a frog bioassay, reported traces~of'~
nicotine~ in cohv's~ milk ~~ 24~ hours~ after, the~ intramuscular~ injection of
:0 mg:/kg. and 5~ hours after~the injection of'0.5~mg,/kg,
Etridence for an Effect Upon the Nursing Offspring.
Hatcher and Crosby (32). found that 0.5 mg./kg. nicotine injected
into nursiing catls had no apparent harmful effect upon the kittens.
_1;pparently4.0, mg:/kg: suppressed lactation. Kittens fed the milk
fromf the cow which had been injected «ith~ 5J mg,/kgnicoti'ne were
also apparently una ffectled.
Nitrosamines
Mohr (,53)found that , diethylnitrosamineand dibutylnitrosamine,
when administered to lactating hamsters, were associated with the
cllevelbpment'of' typical tracheal papillary tumors in the young; sug-
gesting passage of' these compounds in -the milk. Although diethyl
nitrosamine and dibutylnitrosamine have not been identified in ciga-
rette smoke, many N-nitrosamines are potentcarcinogens, and some
of them are present , in cigarette smoke (37, 79)':.
Srun>Es i_N~ I+IIImAws
Nicotine and/or Tobacco Smoke
Influence on the Lactation Process
Emanuel (22) noted no reduction in, milk production among 10 wett
nurses who were encouraged to smoke seven to 15 cigarettes daily;
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~
some were observed to inhale the smoke. Hatcher and Crosby (32) ;
noted that after a mother smoked seven cigarettes within 2' hours, it "'
was difficudt to obtain a specimen of breast milk. Ferlman, et al. (71)
`
found that of' 55 women smokers with an adequate milk supply at the ~
beginning of his study;,11 (20 percent) of the women had an inade+
~
qpate supply at the time of discharge from the hospital. No relatibn- °
ship: was reported between the nusnber of' cigarettes smoked andd the `
likelihood of developing an inadequate milk suppliy:. The authors' im- ~
pression was that there was no greater proportion with an inadequate
milk supply amongsmokerstlian among nonsmokers, but no, cor-
roborating datai were supplied.
Presence of N'icotine in the Milk.
Hatcher and' Crosby (32): found', using a frog bioassay, that the
milk of' a woman collected after she had smoked seven cigarettes ini 2'
hours contained approximately 0.6 mgr jliter nicotine: Emanuel (22),
using a leech bioassay; studied excretion of'nicotine in the milk of' wet
nurses who were encouraged to smoke for the experi'ment: After the
subject's had smoked six to 15 cigarettes over a 1- to 2-hour period,,the
author found nicotine in their milk 4 to 5 hours after smoking,,withia
maximum concentration of 0.03 mg./liter. Bisdomi (70)i demonstrated'
nicotine in the milk of a mother who smoked 20' cigarettes & day.
Thompson (97) found approximately 0.1' mg./liter of nicotine in the
milk of a mother, who smoked nine cigarettes a day (plus three pipe-
ful's),. Ferltnany et al. (71), using, a Daphnia bioassay, demonstrated
nicotine in the milk of all!women who smokediin their study. Moreover,
they found a direct dose-relationship between concentration of nicotine
and the number, of' cigarettes smoked. No comment is made by the
authors on the possible inaccuracy introduced by egamining, only the
residuall milk following nursing, but it is well known that the composi,
tion of the fore milk and hind' milk is di~fferentand perhaps, t'heconcentration of nicotine also
differs..
Evidence for a Clinical' Effect Upon the Offspring
Emanuel (22) ' noted' that among the infants in his study, loose stool's
were observed only in the one whose wet nurse had smoked 20 ciga-
rettes in the previous 4 hours. Bisdom (10) observed a case of "nico-
tine poisoning" in a 6-week-old infant whose mother smoked 20 ciga-
rettes a, day. The symptoms ineludedi: restlessness, vomatin,g;,diarrhea,
and tacliycardia. Nicotine was d'emonstrated in the milk and the
symptoms abated when smoking was stopped! Greiner (30) also de-
scribed a case of' possiblenicotinepoisoning in a 3-week-old nursling,
140

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whose mother~smoked3~5~to~40ciga.rettes~a day. The~sy.rn~ptom,s,incl'uded
A,..onliting~~ and l'oose~ stools~. Fallowing~ the~ curtailment of ~ slnoking, the~
s~-.inhtoms gradually abated over a 3 day period. Perlrrlan, et all (71)
noted no effect of~ smoking, on the weight gain of the infants, of'the~
~1nokers in their study., P'urtherrnore no untoward symptoms were
ubserved. They therefore doubted an effect of smoking on lactation.,
1'hcv~ noted' that the dose: recei'ved by the infantls~ was beneath the toxic
I«vel as computed~ from adult experience; and this~~ accordedl with~ their
clinical observatli'ons. The: fact that they admitted to the study only
wonsen with an apparently~ ad'equate~ milk supply~ m~~ay~ have~ affected
tiieir~ results. The~~authors~~ suggested that perhaps,the~laek of~effect of
s~uioking ~ upon lactation might represent'~ the development of tolerance~e
to ~ nicotine,, as botih the mother and the offspring hadl been egposedd
thr.oughout'the pregnancy..
VITAIILIN C
Venulet (105, 106, 107):, in a series of studies, demonstrated that
flie level of v.itlaanin~ G was~~ reducedl in the m~ilk~ of smok~ing, mothers as
conipa~red with nonsmokers. The~ clinical significance of this observaltion has not been evaluated.,
Lactation Swmmary~
1. The two pertinent epidemiological studies suggest ai possible: in-
fl'u~eneeofsmokingupontheadequacyof'milksupplyI+I'owever,,
with onIylimit;ed numbersof'women and without control ofotherpotent'ially significant variables,, no
conclusions can be drawn.
2: Studies iQi, rats have demonstrated that nicotine can interfere with
suckling-induced rise in prolactin. The relevance for humans
is uncertain.
3: Evidence exists that nicotine passes~ into breast milk. No: . clear
evidence f©r ani acute effect upon the nursing infant i's available:
Potential chronic effects havenot been studied.
4. ivenvevidencefrorra experiments with m ~ice suggests that nitros-
ainines., known carcinogens, pass through themilkt'~osucklin,gyoun~:

Pneedampsia
Previous epidemi'nlogical studies of the relationship betR-.een cig-
arette smoking, and preeclampsia were reviewed in the 1971 and 1972
reports on the health consequences of'smoking (1tJ1;102) and form the,
basis of thefollo«ing, statements':'The results, of several large prospective and retrospective
studiess
indicate a statistically significant lower incidence of' preeclampsiaamong smoking women (14,
43;.1fJ0). The results of one large retro-
spective study d~emonstratedl a significant inverse relationship between
the incidencee of preeclampsia and the number of' cigarettes smoked
(10(J)~.When other risk factors,silchaspari'ty, social class, maternal
weight before the pregnaney, and maternal weight gaiili during the
pregnancy were controlled, smoking women retained a significantly
decreased risk of preeclampsia (21),. The lower riskofpreeclampsiak for cigarette smoking women, has
been demonstrated'' in Britain and
Scotland' (14,, 21, /8, 83), The United States (100, 118),,Venezueia
('42)'.,andl Sweden (43);.1[f a maternal smoker doesdevelop preeclamp-
sia, ho«ev.er, av.aiIable data suggest that her infant has a~ higher mor-
tality risk thani does' the infant of' a nonsmoker with preeclampsia
(21;,83).
Sum,mary
1. Available evidence indicates that maternal, cigarette smokers
have a significantly lower risk of developing preeclampsia as
compared to nonsmokers..
2. If'awoman w_hosmokes cigarettes, during,pregnancydoes developpreeclam:psia, her infant has a
higher mortality risk than the
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Introduction-------------------------------------------- 155
Epid'emiological and Clinical Studies---------_---_--------- 155
Experimental Studies
Grrstrie Seeretion _------------------------------------
157
Pancreatic Secretiw ---------------------------------- 1159
Summary of Recent Peptic Ulcer Disease Findings-_-------- 162
References--------------------------------------------- 1163
List of Figures
Figure 1.-Ga.strie ulcer mortality ratios of Japanese (men and
Nromen combined) by age at initiation of cigarette smoking
(1966-70) -------------------------------------------- 156'
Figure 2'.-Effect of' cigarette smoking, on volume of secretin-
stimulatedd pancreatic secretion in humans_--------------- 160
Figure 3.-Effect of cigarette smoking on seeretin-stimulated,
pancreatic bicarbonate output in humans----------------- 161
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151

Introductim
Previous epidemiological and experimental studies of'the relation-
ship between cigarette smoking and peptic:ulcer disease were reviewed:
in the 1971 and 19?2 reports on the health consequences of smoking
('Ii;.Z8)andlform! thebasisofthefolloaeingsummary:
Tlieresults of epidcmiol'ogical studies indicate that cigaretit'esmok-
i ng males have an increased prevalence of peptic ulcer disease , andl a
-reater mortality from pept'icul'cer ascomlpared tononsrnoking males.
Among males; the association betvveen cigarette smoking and peptic~~
ulcer disease is stronger for gastric than for duodenal ulcer, but sig-
nificantfor bot'h.For males, cigarettestaoki'ngappears toreducetheeil'ectiveness of standard peptic
ulcer treatment and to slow the rate of
pepticulcerhealin~g. The: relationship: between cigarette smoking and
t'.he prevalence of and mortality from peptic ulcer disease is less clear
for females than for males.Experiment.al studies of'the effect of cigaret.te smoking ini man, and
of'the effect of injection and infusion of nicotine in animals, on gastric
eecnetion and motility have produced confti'ctin~g resul'ts: In dogs, an
infusion of nicotine has been found to inhibit pancreatic and hepat'ic
bicarbonate secretion, thus demonstrating a possible link betweenn
cigarette sniokingand dhodenal ulcer:,
R'ecently,, additional epideYniological,, clinical, autopsy,,and experi-
mental studies have confirmed then association between: cigarette smok-
in- and gastric ulcer mort.ality and have clarified a mechanism through
which cigarette smoking might be linked to duodenal ulcer:
EJpid'demiological an& Clinical Studies
Previous studies of'the relationship between peptic uleer disease and
cigarette smoking have been conducted in, predominantly white, West-
ern populations. A large prospective epidemiological study is currently
being conducted in Japan. From, thisstudy, Hirayama(6)' reported
.5-year folloti<<up data on 263,118 menn and women, aged 40 years and
old'er,,representing 91 to 99 percent of the totall popnlation in the area
of the 29healthi districts in .vhieh the study was conducted. Both male
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an& female cigarette smokers experienced higher d'Ieath rates from
gastric ulcer as compared wi6.h~ nonsmokers: The mortality ratio for
cigarettesmokers was 1.81 for males, (F'<O.QOl)and 2:15' for females(R'<O:fJ5).The
morta:l'ityratioforsmokers(rnales' and femalescom-
bined) was dose-dependent as measured by age at initiation of'smoking
(fig. 1)., Theresultsofl this study, i'nthecontextof'the genetic and cul-
tural differences between Japanese and lVestern populations, provide
a significant confi rmation of the association~ between cigarette smoking
and gastric ulcer mortality.
Figure T.--Gastric~ulcer mortai'ity ratios of'Japanese (men and womenicombined)n bx age at'
initiation oficigarette smoki'ng,(196Cr197t1),
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Alp, et al.(1) conducted a retrospective survey of 638 patients,
admitted to two Australian teaching hospitals between 1954 andl 1963,
with: chronic gastric ulcer confirmed by roentgenographic, endoscopic,
or surgical examination. The findings in the patients were compared
with information available about the South~ Australian populationn
obtained at census in 119'51 and 1961, and with a~ control group of 233,
subjects matched for age and sex with the ulcer patients. Cigaret'te,
tise, a family history of peptic ulcer, domestic stress, and aspirin and
alcohoL intake occurred significantly more freqpzently among ulcer
patients. Alp, et al. (2)1 found that after surgical treatment, recurrence
of the ulcer was significantly more likely to recur among those patients
wllo continued to smoke, drink, and use aspirin (P'E0.001).Fingerland, et al. (5) compared the
autopsy findings from, 76'5'males
with their smoking history. The autopsies were performed without
selectibn during 1965 and 1966' at the University of Hradec Kralove,
(: zechoslovakia. P'ept'ic ulcer was significantly more frequent among
male ex-smokers andi male lifelong smokers than among male non-
smokers (P<0.02)~. Among males, a dose-response relationship was~
found between estimated total cigarette consumption and the presence
of peptic ulcer at autopsy.
Cooper andi Tolins (h) reported results from a retrospective study
ofl the relationship betR een cigarette smoking andl postoperative eom-
pliications arnong 2,988 :males, admitted to 19 V'eteransAdministration
hospitals, for the su~rgicall treatmentof' duodenal ulcer. S4noking, his-
tory was obtainedi for 1,4411 of the men,, and of' these 273 were non-
smokers, 1,018 smoked cigarettes only, and 93 smoked' cigarettes plus
a pipe and/or cigars. The authors found no evidence:of an association
between either the number of cigarettes smoked per day;,or the number
of years ofl cigarette smoking, and postoperative complicati'ons, opera-
tive mortality, or length ofl hospital stay. They emphasized that their
results, must be viewed with considerable caution and listed several
potential sources of' bias. Iin addition, they noted, `'`* **' that these
results apply only to the immediate postoperativefi'ndings and do not
apply to the lbng-range effects of' smoking upon the patient after
surgeryy f'or duodenal ulcer disease."
Experimental Studies
Gastric Secretion
STL7DIES I.N HIID'iANS
Morales,, et al. (10, 11) studied the effect of cigarette smoking on
gastric secret'i'on in a group of 312 patients. The patients included 13~8'.
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with duodenal ulcer, 93 with gastric : ulcer, andl 81 with other gastro-
intestinali disorders, who served as control§.. Cigarette smoking, was
significantly more freq,uent among the patients with peptic uIcer than
among the controls.
The chronic effect of smoking on gastric secretion was quite variable.
Male smokers among the controls and in the group with duodenal
ulcers had ai significantly increased baseline acid output as compared
with nonsmokers in the same groups ( P<0.05)., 'tlfter a subcutaneous
injection of' histamine; only the group of maie smokers withi gastric
ulcers had a significant increase in acid output over the values obtained'
for nonsmokers in the same group (P<0:05'). 4mong the.smokers in
the control group, the relationship between gastric acid output andithe:
number of cigarettes smoked daily was dose dependlent. No such rela-
tionship was obtained for either of the twolgroups with peptic ulcers.IIn. these experiments, the
acute effect of'smoking on gastric secre-
tion was slight. In one set of experiments, a group of eight smokers
served as its own control. The smoking of two cigarettes prior to
collection of gastric jiuice had no significant effect on acid output as
compared to baseline values. After smoking twocigarettes, and~ alsoreceiving, a subcutaneous
injection of histarnine,, the patients experi-
enced no~ significant change in gastric acid output as compared to
baseline values; 21 male patients, including members from t!he groups
with ul'cers, and controls, smoked onecigaret'tel hour after an intra-
venous infusion of histamine. A transient depression of' gastric acid,
output was noted as, compared withi t'heval'uesobtained from ni'nepatient's who did not smoke.
STAIDIFES IN ANI4IA7yS
Konturek, et al'. (8), studied the effect of intravenous infusion of'
nicotine on the formation of acute, experimental dkiodenal ulcers in
cats. The authors infused nicotine intravenously in doses comparable
to the smoking of four, eight and 16 cigarettes per hour into cats in
whom near maximal gastric acid output had been stimulated~ with
intravenous pentagastrin. The investigators found that nicotine in the~
two lower doses hadl no effect upon the gastric acid output stimulated
by pentagastrin, but that the highest dose produced a significant de-
crease in response, due to,a fall in botlhvolhime and acid concentration.
Nicotine alone failed to alter a negligible basal gastric secretion. In
control' animals (pentagastrin alone), duodenali udcer& were found in, eight of' 10 animals.
Nicotine at the two lower dbses, in combination
with pentagastrin, produced ulcers in alll 26~ animals. At theinter-mediatedose~ of nicotine, the
mean ulcer area, was, twice that found in
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the control group. At the: highest dose of nicotine, peptic ulcers ap-
peared in only two of six animals and the areai of ulcer was reduced
compared to controls.
Shaikh, et al. (14) studied the acute and chronic effects of sub-
cutaneously injected no:cotine on gastric secretion in rats.. Under basal
conditions, the volume of gastric secretion was initially depressed,
then stimulated, and depressed' again as the dose of' nicotine was
increased. Acid output was decreased over the entire range of nicotine
d''osage. Pepsin output reflected a similar triphasic response to in-
cre.asiing nicotine doses as did gastric secretory volume. In the absence
of nicotine, pentagastrin stimulated gastric volume, acid, and pepsin
output. The inject'ion of nicotine in increasing doses, administered
simultaneously with pentagast'rin, resulted in a gradual decrease in
response for alli parameters.. `'olume of gastric juice, acid output, andid
pepsin output werea1l increased significantly by chronic exposure to nicotine alone. Based on an
average smoking dose of nicotine, the dose
of nicotine employed in: the chronic experiments corresponded to the
smoking of three to five cigarettes per day.
Thompson, et al. (16) extended the study of rats described above
by studying the effects of chronic nicotine injections in vagotomizedd
rats and rats with discrete lesions in the hypothalamus. In sham-
operated animals, chronic nicotine injections significantly increased
baseline volume of gastric juice, acid output, and pepsin output. Fol-
lowing vagotomy, the nicotine response was completely: suppressed.
Caudall hypothalamic lesions did not influence the response to nicotine
in the presence of intact vagus nerves. Anterior hypothalamic lesions,,
ranging from the anterior hypothalamic area to the ventromedial
hypothalamus, blocked the nicotine-induced gastric secretory stimula-
tion in: the presenceof'intact vagi. The authors concluded that chronic
nicotine-induced gastricseeretory stimulation is mediated via anterior
hypothalamic, activation and intact vagus nerves. The importance of
local effects remained uncertain.
Pancreatic Secretion
STIIDIES IN HUMANS
Bynum; et al. (3)' studied the effect of cigarette smoking upon pan-
creatic secretion in 23'healthyyoung,malesand females. Fi'vecontroli
male nonsmokers: were compared with: seven malle and two female light
smokers, (less t'~han one pack of cigarettes per day for less than 3years)
and eight male and one: female heavy smokers (more than one pack of
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cigarettes per day for more than 3' years). Pancreatic secretion was
measured by the double secretin test, using Boots secretim The experiL
ment was divided into two parts for the smokers: A basal collectionn
period and an experimentall period during which the subjects smoked
seven nonfiltered cigarettes at the rate of four per hour. Light', srnokerss
had basal v.alues for pancreatiic secretory volume and bicarbonate out-
put in response to secretin whi& were not significantly different from,
contpols. After the subjects had smoked, significant depression of'both
pancreatic volume and bicarbonate output was noted (P<.001).
Heavy srnokers had basal values that were significantlyy l'ess than in the
control subjiects (P<0.01). Stnmoking, however, did not further depress
the response to secretin (figs. 2 and 3).
Solomon, and Jacobsen (15) reviewed some possible rnechanisms
whereby the increased prevalence and mortality from, duodenal ulcer
among cigarette smokers might be produced'. They concluded that
eviidencefromstud'ies in animals,,coupled with thefind'irrgs of' Bynum, et al. (3), supported the
hypothesis that the mechanism active in
humans involves impaired neutralization of acid secondary to the
inhibition of pancreatic bicarbonate secretiom
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SQURCE Bynum, et, all (3).
STUnrs ix ArrsMALs
Konturek,, et al. (7) extended his research on the mechanism of
nicotine-induced inhibition of pancreatic secretion in the dog, using
the design previously emplbyedi (9)'. Infused secretin alone led to al
sustained increase in pancreatic bicarbonate output. Intravenous nico-
tine, at all four doses of infused secretin, produced a significant in-
hibition of pancreatic volume and bicarbonate output (PG0.05).
Infused nicotine appeared to inhibit competitively the effect of secre-
tin on pancreatic secretion of fluid and bicarbonate. Topical (intraduo-
denal) nicotine failedl to affect significantly the response to infused
secretin. Stimulation of endogenous secretin by an acid infusion into
the duodenum produced the expected pancreatic secretory response.
Nicotine either applied to the duodenal mucosa or injjected intra-
venously significantly inhibited the pancreatic secretory response to
endogenous secretin. ~Ticotine had no significant effect on total pancrea-
tic protein output. n?icotine did not alter the cholecystokinin-induced
stimulation of pancreatic secretion. The authors concludedl that nico-
tine may inhibit pancreatic secretion ofI flu'ud and' bicarbonate both
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by a direct effect on pancreatic secretory mechanisms, acting as a com-
petitive inhihitor of secretin,,and by a secondary effect on the duoden.al
mucosa, depressing the endogenous release of secretini by acid.
Robert (,12) studied' the potentiation of' active duodenal' ulcers by
nic.otine adininistration in the rat. Subcutaneous infusion of pentagas-
trin and carbachol resulted in the dose-dependent formation of duo-
denal ulcers within 24 hours. Nicotine alone produced no, ulcers.
Increasing doses ofl subcutaneously infused nicotine, in combination~
with the other two agents, resuIted' in a steadily: increasing dose-related
incidence and' severity of the duodenal ulcers. Robert notedl that
Konturek, et, al. (9) found, that nicotine inhibitedi pancreatic and
biliary bicarbonate secretion ini dogs, and that Thompson, et al. (1Fi )~
foundl that acute dbses of nicotine in rats either depressedl or did not
alter gastric secretion: He concluded that the most probable mechanism
by which nicotine potentiated acute duodenal ulcer formation in the
rat was via a suppression ofc pancreatic secretion.
Robert, et al. (13)! further tested this hypothesis by infusing acid
via the esophagus of rats in doses f'ound' to cause duodenal ulcers inn
one-third of'the experimental animals. One group ~ofrats also received
a, subcutaneou& infusion of nicotine. Another received nieotine;but
only water was infused via the esophagus;, 31 percent of the animalb
receiving acid but no nicotine had duodenal ulCers; 93 percent of the
nicotine-acid group had duodenal ulcers,, whi1enoneof'~ the nicotine-
water group had ulcers. The ulcers in the nicotine-acid group were
more numerous,,extensive, andl deeper than those in the animals which
received acid alone.,
Summary of Recent Peptic Ulcer Disease Findings.
In addition to the findings relating cigarette smoking to peptic ulcer
disease, summarized in previous reports on the health consequences of
smoliing (17, 18) and cited in the introduction to this chapter, recent
studies have! contributed further to our understandiitg of the
association:,
1. The finding of' a significant dose-related excess mortality from
gastric ulcers among both male and female Japanese cigarette
smokers, in a large prospective study; andl in the context of the
genetic and cultural differences between the Japanese and pre-
viously investigated `Vestern populations, confirms and extends
the association between cigarette smoking, and gastric ulcer
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gest that nicotine potentiates acute duodenai ulcer formation by
means of inhibition of pancreatic bicarbonate output..
3. Cigarette smoking, has been demonstrated to inhibit pancreatic
bicarbonate secretion in healthy young men and women.
Peptic Ulcer Disease Refierences,
(1) ALr, M. H., HisLor, L. G., GRANT, A. K., Gastric ulcer in South Australia,
1954-G3. 1. Epidemiological factors, Medical Journal of Australia 2'(24) :
1128-1132, Dec. 12, 1970.
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195?i-63. 2l Symptomatology andi response to treatment. Medical Journal
of'Australia 1(7) : 372-374, Feb. 13, 1971.
(3) BrxuM, T. E.,, SaLOMorr,, T., E.,, JoHNsON, L R., JaCOSSON E. D. Inhibition
of pancreatic secretion in man by eigarette smoking. Gut 13(15) : 361465,
May 1972.
(4) COaPES, P., TbLiNs,,S: H. Relationship betweeni smoking history and compli+
cations immediatelq following surgery for duodenal ulcer. Mount Sinai
Journali of'.Medicine 39:(3) : 287,29'l; May-June 1972.
(5) Fr'xaERLAND,, A., HusxK, T., BenDLOVA, J. Contribution to the investigation
of the effect of cigarette smoking. Sbornik Vedeckych Pract Lekarske
Fakulty Karlovy University v Hradci Kralove 14 ('l ): 221-234, 1971.,
(6) HtaAYAniA, T. Smoking in relation to the death rates of 265;118 men and
women in Japan. A report af'5 years'of; followup. Presented at the Amer-
ican Cancer Societ+VS 14th Science Writers' aeminar,' Clearwater Beach,
Fla., Mar. 27;,1972, 15' pp.
(7) Ko.rTUSEa, S. J., DALE, J., Jl&consaN, E. D:, JoHNsoN,,L~ R. biechanisms of'
nicotine-induced inhibition of pancreatic secretion, of bicarbonate in thee
dbg. Gastroenterology 62'(3) : 425-429, 1972.
(8) KoxTUBEx,, S. J., ReDECSr, T., THOR, P., DEmBLNss:r; A., JACOBSOx, E. D:
Effects of' nicotine on gastric secretion andi ulcer formation in, cats. Pro
ceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 138(2') :
6~.74-67i, November 1971.
(9) Ko:vTUBEK, S. J., SbLOmo.rs T. E., bTCCaEiuHr, W. G., JoHNsox, L. R.,
JXCOSSOx, E: D. Effects of nicotine on, gastrointestinal secretions: Gastro-
enterology 60(6) : 1098-11Q5; June 1971.
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SANz;, R, Cigarrillo y secrecion gastrica. I. Analisis de la secreeibnn
gastrica en pacientes digestivos fumadores y no fumadores. (Cigarettes
and!gastric secretion.,I. Analysis of'gastric secretion in smoking and non-
smoking ulcer patients.) Revista Medica de Chile 99(4) : 271-274, April
1971L
(11..). MORAI:ES, A., StI:VA'., .S!, OsOEIo, G.,,ALC,I.DF:, J.,WAI6BBLUTH, J..ClgarrllllDysecrecion
gastrica., II. Efecto del' cigarrillo sobre Iai secreciSn, g§strdea.
(Cigarettes and gastric secretion, II.. Effect of cigarettes on gastric secre-
tioni) Rievi'stai Medica de Chil+e99~(4) : 275-279,,April 1971.
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ceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 139(1) :
318--322, January 1972.
(13) RoBexT, A., STOZVE; D. E., NezAMis J. E1 Possible relationship between
smoking and peptic ulcer. Nature 233(5320) : 497-498, Oct. 15, 1971.
(14) SxAixH; 1Vi. 1.,, THompsoN, J. M, Ausss, D; Acute and chronic effects of
nicotine on rat gastrie secretion. Proceedings of the Western Pharma-
cology SocietF' 13: : 178-184 1970.
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ease. New England Journal of' Medi:cine 28Fi(2'2) : 1212-1213; June 11972!.
(16) THomrsoN, J. H., GEoaoE, R., AxauLO; M. Some effects of'nieotine o&gastrie
secretion in rats. Proceedings of' the Western Pharmacology Society
14: 173-177, 1971.
(1'7) U.S..Pusric HEAnTH SBSSZCE. The Health Consequences of Smoking. A Re-
port of the Surgeon General: 1971. U.S. Department of Health, Etlucation,
and' Welfare. Washington, DHEW Publication, No.. (HSM) 71.-7513;.
1971, 458 pp.
(18)~ ITtS: Pusr,ic~ HEALTH SksvicE. The Health Consequences of Smoking, A
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1972; 158 ' pp.
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Contents
Page
Introduction--------------------------------------------- 1711
Tl1ePtevalence of Pipe, C'igar and C'igaretteZTsage---------- 173~
The Definition and Processing of Cigars, Cigarettes,, and Pipe
Tobaccos---------------------------------------------
175
C'hemicai Analysis of'Cigar Sinoke------------------------- 177
\Iortality
Oreralt Morta,lity=------------------------------------
179
Mortality and Dose-Response Relationships.
Amount Smoked--------------------------------
180'
Dn.lialation-------------------------------------- 183
Specific Causes of Mortalily--------------------------- 189
Cancer----------------------------------------- 189
Cancer of the Lip------------------------------- 190,
Oral Cancer------------------------------------ 191.
Cancer of' the Larvnx---------------------------- 193'
Cancer of' the Esophagus------------------------- 1'97
Lung Cancer------------------------------------ 203
Tumorigeniic Act'ivity---------------------------- 210
Experimentlal Studiies---------------------------- 210
Cardiovascular Disease& -------------------------- 215
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary D'iisease~~ (COPD) - - - - 216,
Gastrointestinal D!isorders------------------------ 2M
Little Cigars-------------------------------------------- 2'22'
Conclusions--------------------------------------------- 229.
References---------------------------------------------- 230.
List ofFiguires,
Figure L-1'nhal~tion among pipe smokers by age-----------
184
Figure 2.-Inhalatt'ion among cigar smokers by agE-Ham-
mond------------------------------------------------
1'85
Figure 3.-Depth of inhalation among, cigarette smokers by
age-Hammond---------------------------------------
185
Figure 4.-Percent distribution ofl 130 brands of cigarettes and.
25' brands of littlle cigars by tar content------------------
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Figure~ 5'.-Percent~ distribution of' 130~ brands~~ of' cigarettes and
25brands of little cigars by nicotine content______________ 226'.
LI isU of Tables
Tab1ei.-Percent distribut'ion ofU.S'., males~aged 21 and older
by type of tobacco usedl for the years 1964, 1966, and 197'0-_ 173
Table 2.-Percent distribution of U.S. males by type,of'tobacco
used and agefor 1970---------------------------------- 174'
Table 3.. Percent distribution~ of' British~ males aged 25 and
older by type of tobacco used for the years 1965, 1968, and
1977i'------------------------------------------------- 174
Table 4.-Amounts of' several components of' 1 gram of' par-
ticulate material frorn~ mainstream smoke of tobacco prod-
ucts ------------------------------------------------- 177
Table 5.-A comparison of sev.eral chemical compounds found
in the mainstream smoke of cigars, pipes, and ci'garettes-_-_ 178
Table 6'. Mortality ratlios for totall deaths by type of'smoking,
(males only)------------------------------------------ 180
Table 7.-Mortalit'yratiosf'or tlotaldeathsofcigar andl pipe
smokers byy amount smoked-Hammond and Horn-------- 181
Table 8.-Mortality ratios for total deaths of cigar and pipe
smokers by amount smoked'-Best----------------------- 181
Table 9. M'ortality ratios for totall deaths: of ci$ar, and pipe
smokers by age and amounti smoked-li:ahn-------------- 1182
Table 1Q.-Mlortality ratios f'or total deaths of cigar and pipe:
smokers by amount smoked-Harnmond!----------------- 182'
Table11.-The: extent ofinhalingpipes,c'igars; and' cigarettesby British males aged 16' and over in~
1968 andi 1971 ------- 186
Table 12.-Inhalation among cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers
by age-D'olll and Hill---------------------------------- 1W
Table 13.-Mortality ratios for total deaths of cigar and pipe
smokers~by age and inhalation-Hammond--------------- 187
Table 114.-Percentage of British male cigar smokers who re-
ported inhaling a lot or a fair amount by type of product
smoked---------------------------------------------- 187
Ti able 15.-P'ercentage of individuals reporting, inhalation of
"almost every pufF" of tobacco smoke by current and pre-
vioustobaccolusage and type of'tlobacco usedi------------- 188'
Table 16.-Percentage of British males who reported inhaling a
lot or fair amount of cigar smoke: by current andi previous
tobacco usage and type of tobacco previously smoked
(1968)----------------------------------------------- 188
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Table 17.-Extent of' reported inhalation of' cigar smoke by
British male cigar smokers who were ex-cigarette smokers in,
11968, analyzed by extent,of reported inhalation of cigarettiee
smoke.ehenpreviouslysmokingcigarettes----------------- 189
Table 18'.-Niortality ratios for total cancer deaths in cigar and'
pipe smokers. A summary of prospective epidemiologicall
studies----------------------------------------------- 189
Table 19. Relative risk of lip cancer for men, comparing cigar,
pipe, and cigarette smokers with nonsmokers. A summary of
retrospectYvestudies----------------------------------- 192
Table 20.-Mortality ratios for oral cancer in cigar and pipe
smokers. A suQnmaryof'prospective:epidemiol,ogical'studies-- T9~3Table 2I1.-Ro1'ativerisk of' oral
cancer formen comparing
cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers wath~ nonsmokers. A sum-
mary of retrospective studies--------------------------- 194
Table 22.-Mortality ratios for cancer of' the larynx in cigar
and pipe smokers. A summary of'prospective epidemiological
studies----------------------------------------------- 196
Table 23.-Relative risk of cancer of the larynx for men, com-
paring cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers with nonsmokers.
A summary of retrospective studies---------------------- 198
Table 24.-Mortality ratios for cancer of the esophagus in
cigar and pipe smokers: A summary of prospective epidemio-
logicall studies----------------------------------------- 200
Table 25.-Relative risk of cancer of' the esophagus for mens
comparing cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers with non-
smokers. A summary of'retrospectlive studies--------------- 201
Table 26.-Mortality ratios for lung, cancer deaths in male
cigar and pipe smokers. A summary of prospective studiies---- 204
Table 27:-Lung cancer death rates for cigar and pipe smokers
by amount smoked-IDoll and Hill---------------------- 204'
Table 28.-Lung, cancer mortality rat'ios for cigar and pipe
smokers by amount smoked-Rahn---------------------- 205
Table 29.-Relative risk of lung, cancer for men, comparing
cigar, pipe, andl cigarette smokers with nonsmokers. A
summary of retrospective studiies------------------------ 206
Table 30.-Changes in bronchial epi'theliumi of male cigar,
pipe,, and cigarette smokers as compared to nonsmokers---_ 209
Table 31_-Tumorigenic activity of' cigar, pipe, and cigarette
smoke condensates in skin painting experiments on animals-_ 213
Table 32.-Mortality ratios for cardiovascular deaths in male
cigar and pipe smokers. A summary of prospective epi-
demiological studies----------------------------------- 2116
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Table 33.-Mortality ratios for chronic obsttlruetive pulmonary
deathsin m~a1ecigar and pilpesmokers. Asu.mmary of pros-
pective epidemiolbgical stludies-------------------------- 219
Table 34.-Prevalence of respiratory symptoms andi illness by
type of smoking--------------------------------------- 220
Table 35. Pulmonary function val'ues for cigar and pipe
smokers as compared to nonsmokers--------------------- 221
Table 36'. Mbrtalirt,y ratios for peptic ulcer disease in male
cigar and pipe smokers. Summary of prospective studies--- 222
Table 37.-Shipment of small andl large cigars destined for
domestic consumption (1970; 1971, 1972)----------------- 227'
Table 38,-Selected compounds in mainstream smoke-------- 228
Table 39.-The pH of the mainstream smoke of selected
tobacco productas-------------------------------------- 228,
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Intiroductiiorr
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This~ eha.pter, is a review of' the epidemiological, pathological, and
esperimental data: on the health conseqpences of smoking cigars! and'~
I)ipes, alone, together, and in various combinations with cigarettes.
Previous reviews on the health consequences of'~ smoking have dealt
primarilyy with cigarette smoking. Although some of the material on
pipes:and cigars presented in this chapter has been, presented in previ-
ous reports of'the Surgeon General, this is the first attempt to summa-
rize what isInown about the health effects,ofpipe and, cigarsmoking:,
Since the use of pipes and cigars is limited almost exclusively to men
in the: United States; only data on, men are included in this review..
The influence of pipe and cig~r smoking on health~ is determined
byexaminiRrgtheoverall and specific, mortalityandi morbidiityeg-perienced by users of these forms of
tobacco compared to: nonsmokers.
Epidemilogical evidence suggests that individuals who limit their
smoking to only pipes or cigars have overall mortality rates that are
slightly higher than nonsmokers. For certain specific causes of deathyhowever pipe andl cigar
smokers experience mortality rates that are
as great as or, exceed those e$perienced! by cigarette smokers. Thiss
analysis becomes more complea when combinations of smoking forms
ar~e, examinedL Theoveral2 rnortalityrates ofl thosew1v) smoke pipes,
cigars,, or both in combination with cigarettes appear to be inter-
mediate between the high mortality rates of' cigarette smokers and'
the lower rates of those who smoke only pipes or cigars. This might
seem to suggest that smoking pipes or cigars in combination with ciga-
rettes diminishes the harmful eff'ects of cigarette smoking. However,
an analyTsis of mortality associated vr ith smoking combinations of ciga-
rettes, pipes, and cigars should be standardi'zedl for the level of con,
sumption of each of' the prodhzcts smoked in terms' of the amount
smoked, duration of smoking, and the depth and degree of inhalation.
f' or examplecigar smokers who also smoke a pack of cigarettes a day
might be egpectedito have mortality rates somewhat higher than those
who smoke only cigaret'tiesat the level of apack a d'ayassumingthat,
both groups smoke their cigarettes in the same way. Mixed smokers',
who inhale pipe or cigar smoke in ai manner similar to the way they
smoke cigarettes might bee expected to have: higher mortality rates
than mixed smokers who do1 not inhale their cigars and pipes and also
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resist inhaling their cigarettes. ~,~nf!ortunately, little of the published
material on~ mixed cigarette, pipe, and cigar smoking contains, these
types of'analyses or controls:A paradox seems to: exist between the mortality rates of ex-smokers
of pipes~and cigars and ex-smokers of cigarett'es. Ex-cigarette smokers
experience a relative decline in overall and certain specific causes of
mortality following cessation. This decline is important but indirect
evidence that cigarette smoking is a ma jor cause of the elevat'ed mor-
tality rates experienced by current cigarette : smokers. In contrast to
this finding several prospective epidem.iological investigationsy
Hammond and'H'orn (I0), Best (9)~Kahn ('50), and H'ammond! (38),
have; reported higher death rates for ex-pipe and ex-cigar smokers
than for current pipe and cigar smokers.. This phenomenon was ana-
lyzedl by Hammond and Garfinkel (3J). The development of ill healthh
often results in a cigarette smoker giving up the habit, reducing his
daily: tobacco consumption, switching, to pipes or cigars; or choosing
a cigarette lbw in tar and nicotline. In many instances, a~ smoking-
related disease is the cause of ill health. Thus, the group of ex-smokers
includes some people who.are illl from smoking-related diseases, and
d'eath; rates anehigh among personsin:ill health.As' a result ex-cigarette smokers initially have
higher overalll and
specific mortality rates than! continuing cigarette smokers, but be-
cause of the relative d'ecrease in mortality that occurs in those who
quit smoking for reasons other than ill health, andl because of the
dwindling number of i11i ex-smokers, a relative: decrease in mortality
is observed (within a few years) following cessation of' cigarette
smoking. The beneficial effects of cessation «ouldi be obvious sooner
were it not for the high mortality rates of those who quit smoking
for reasons of illness. A similar principle operates for es-pipe and ex-
cigar smokers, but because of't!he lower initial risk of smoking these
forms! and thereforethe:smaller margin, of benefi't' following cessationythe effect producedl by the
ill ex-smokers creates a larger and more
persistent impact on the mortality rates than is seen in cigarette
smoking.
For the above reasons a bias is introduced into the mortality rates
of current smokers and!es-smokers of pipes and cigars,,so that a more
accurate pi'cture of' mortality might be obtained' by combining the
ex-smokers with tlie current smokers and looking, at the: resultant
mortality experience.
Because of' a lack of data that would allow a precise analysis of
mortality among ex-pipe and' ex-cigar smokers, a detailed analysis
of'these groups could not be undertaken in this review.
For each specific cause of' death, tables have been prepared which
summarize the mortality and relative risk ratios reported in the major
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about pipe and cigar smokers. The smoking categories used include:
cigar only, pipe only, total pipe and cigar, cigarette only, and mixed.
The total pipe and cigar category includes: those who smoke pipes
only, cigars only;, and~ pipes and cigars. The mixed category includes :
those who smoke cigarettes and cigars; cigarettes and pipes; and
cigarettes; pipes, and cigars. 'Mortality and relative risk ratios were
calculated relative to nonsmokers.
The Prevalence of Pipe,, Cigar, and Cigarette Usage:
The prevalence of pipe cigar, and cigarette smoking in the United
States was estimated by the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and
Health from~ population surveys conducted in 19641, 1966;,and 1970 (98;
99; 100). In each survey, about 2,500 intervieavs were conducted on a
national probabilitysamp16 stratified bytyype of populationandl
beographic area. The use of'these products among adult's aged' 21 and
older is summarized in tables 1 and 2: The prevalence of pipe, cigar,
and cigarette smoking in Great Britain for the years 1965, 1968i and
1971 is presented in tablu :;:
TABLE L.-F~ercen;t distr~~ib'ution of ~TT.S::7>za,le smoke~rs~~ aged~ 21 andolder~
by type of tobacco used' for the years 1964, 1966 and 1970
Forms used 1964 1968 1970
(percent), (percent) (percent)
1. Cigar only-----------------------------
2: Pipe only ------------------------------
3'. Pipe and cigar--------------------------
4. Cigarette only --------------------------
5.~ Cigarette and cigar---------------------- 6: 8
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Total------------------------------ 100.0 10010 100'.,0
Total pipe users; (2+ 3+6-}-7)---------------
Total cigar users (1+3'-{-5+7)--------------
Total' cigarette users (4-}-5+6-F7)----------- 18: 7
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Source: U.S. Department ot Healthi Education, and Welfare (98, 99,10n);.
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TABLE 2.-P'ercent dzstribution of U.S. male smokers by type of tobac=
co used and' age for 1970'
Forms used'
1. Cigar only-----------------
2. Pipe only------------------
3. Pipe and cigar--------------
4. Cigarette,only--------------
5. Cigarette:and'cigar----------
6. Cigarette and pipe----------
7. Cigarette;, pipe,, and' cigar----
E', Nonsmoker-----------------
Tota1------------------
Number of persons in sample---
TataP pipe users---------------
Total cigar users--------------
Total cigarette users----------
Age groups
21to34 38to:44 45'to54, 55to64 65to75' +
3,7 6' 5 4.7 6.7 9.3
4 3' 3. 5 3.0 ' 3. 2 3.6 '.
3. 8 3.3 5. 2' 414 6'. 9:
28.8 29:0 27. 1 24:3' 13:61
6.8 : 10.4 5.5 5: 2' 41 2'
6.6 4.4 5.6 4! 0~ 3.8 .
5: 8 4.8 5.0 4. 0 1.4
40:2 38. 1 43:9 48:,2 57.2
100.0 100.0 100L 0 1M 0 100.10
1i, 0w 528 523 405 388
20. 5' 16. 01 18.8 15. 6' 15. 7
20. 1 25.01 20.4 20. 3' 21!. 8'
48. 1 48.6 43.3 37.5 ' 210
Source: M S. Department of'Health, Education, and Welfare (1A0).
11'AS1,E. 3,-Percent' distribution of British male smokers aged 25 and
older by type of tobacco used for the years 1965, 1968, and 1971.
Formsused:
1. Cigars only'-----------------------------
2. Pipe only------------------------------
3. Cigarettes on1y----,---------------------
4. Cigarettes and pipe~---------------------
5. MixedIsmokers-------------------------
6. Nonsmokers'----------------------------
Total'----------------------------
Number of' persons in sample---------------
Total pipe users---------------------------
Total cigar-------------------------------
Total cigarette~-------------------------,---
Source: Todd, G. F: (B!,).
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1965 1968 1971,
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100:0 100.0 100.0
3)576 3, 566' 3,594
13.9 14.3 13, 3
9.0 11.7 ' 11. 3
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The Definition and Processing of Cigars,, Cigarettes, and
Pipe Tobaccos
CigaretGes
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The U.S+ Government has defined tobacco products for tax pur-
poses. Cigarettes are definedl as "(1) Any roll of' tobacco wrapped in
paper or in any substance not containing tobaccot and (12) any roll of
tobacco wrapped in any substance containing tobacco which, because
of its appearance, the type of tobacco used in the filleror, its packaging
and labeling, is likely to be offered to or purchased by, consumers as
a cigarette described in subparagraph Cigarettes are further
classified by size, but virtually all cigarettes sold in the United States
are "`small ci'garettes"' whichl by definition weigh "not more~ than 3'
pounds per thousand"' which is not more thani 1.361 grams per
cigarette (',96).
American brands of cigarettes contain blends of different grades of'
Virginia, Burley, Maryland, and' oriental tobaccos. Several varieties
of cigarette tobaccos are flue-cured. Ifn this process, tobacco leaves. are
curedl in closed barns where the temperature is progressively raised
over a period of several days. This results in "'color setting," fixing,
and dry~-ing, of the leaf. The most conspicuous change is the conversionn
of starch; into simpler sugars and suppression of oxidative reactions.
Flue-cured tobaccos produce an acidic smoke of light aroma: (35,,112);.
Cigars
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Cigars have been defined' for tax purposes as:: "Any roll of tobacco
,vrapped in leaf tobacco or in any substance containing tobacco, (other
than any roll of tobacco which: is a cigarette w ithin the meaning of
subparagraph (2) of the definition for cigarette)"' (112). In order to
clarify t!he meaning of' "substance containing tobacco" the Treasury
d'epartment has stated that, "The wrapper must (1) contain a signi&
cant proportion of natural tobacco;, (2) be within the range of colors
normally found in natural leaf'tobacco; (3)': have some of the other
characteristics, of the tobaccos from which produced;e.g:,nicotine
content, pI-I,, taste,, and' aroma;, and (4)1 notbesochangedl in the
reconstitution process that it loses a11 the tobaeco: characteristics"
(102). Further, "To be: a cigar,thefilder, must besubstantial,'ly of'
tobaccos unlike those in ordinary cigarettes and must not have any
added flav.ori'ng which would cause the product to have the taste or
aroma generallyattributed to cigarettes. The fact that a product dioes
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not resemble a cigarette (suchas~ many large cigars do1 not~)and'has adistinetiv.e cigar taste and
aroma is of considerable significance in
making this determination" (102)1.
Cigars are also classified bysiae, "Smalll cigars"' weigh notl more
thani 3 pounds per thousandi and, "large cigars"' weigh more than 3
pounds per thousand. "Large cigars" are further divided intolseven
classes for tax purposes based on the retail price intended by the
manufacturer for such cigars (96).
Cigarsaremad'eof'fi1d'er,, binder, andwrappert'obaccos. 'Mosti' cigar
tobaccos are air-cured and then fermentedL Nfore recently; reconsti-
tutedl cigar tobaccos have been used as wrapper, binder, or both. Cigars
are either hand4ol'led or machine made. Some brands of'smalli cigars
aremanufactured' on regular cigarettemakingmac;hines. 'Il'heaging,
and fermentation processes used in cigar tobacco production producee
chemical catalytic, enzymatic, or bacterial tiransformations as evi-
denced by increased temperature, oxygen utlilizationy and carbon
dioxide generation within fermenting ciYar tobaccos. ]fni this complex
process, up to 20~ percent of'tlied~yweight of'theleaf is lost through
decreases in theconcentlrat'ion ofthemostl readil'yfermentablema-
terial's such as carbohydrates, proteins, and alkaloids. The flavor and
aromaofeigartobaccosare iazi largemeasuretheresul~t'sof 'preciselycontrolled treatment
d~uringtheferment'ation process(35; 36, 112).
Pipe Tobaccos
The definition of pipe tobacco used by the LT.S. Government was
repealed in 11966 ' and there is no Federali tax on pipe tobaccos. The
mostpopular pipetokiaccos~ are made of Burley; however, many pipe
tobaccos are blends of different types of tobacco. A few contain a
significant proportion of midrib parts that' are crushed between rollers.
"Saucing" material, or casings containing licorice, sweetening agents,
sugars, and other flavoring materials are added to improve the flavor,
aroma, and smoke taste. These additives modify the characterist!ics
of smoke components (112)'..
CancLu sian.
B'ecauseof t!heuniquecuringand processing methods used in the
production of cigar andl pipe~tobaccos; significant phy.si~cali and chemi-
cal differences exist betweeni pipe and cigar tobaccos and thoseusedl i'n
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cigarettes. The extent to whichi these changes may alter the health
consequences of smoking pipes and cigars can best be estimated by an
analysis of the potentially harmful chemical constitutents found in
the smoke of'these tobaccos; the tumorigenic activity of smoke conden-
sates in experimental animals, andi a review ofl the epidem.iological
data which has accumulated on the health effects of pipe and cigar
smoking..
Cliemi'cal Analysis of C:gar Smoke
Only a few studies have i been conducted that compare the chemical
constituents of cigar smoke with those found in cigarette smoke.
Hoffmann, et al. (43) compared the yields of several chemical com-
ronentls, in the, smokefrom ai pl'a7n 85 mm: cigarette,, two types of
cigars; and a pipe. The particulate matter, nicotine, benzo(a)pyrene,
and phenols were determined quantitatively in the smoke of' these
tobacco products: One: cigar tested was a 135'-mmi long 7.8-g.,, U.S''.-
madie cigar. The other was a handmade Havanai cigar 147 mm. long
weighing 8.6 g. The relative content of nicotine in the particulate
matter produced by the cigars was similar to that of the cigarette
tars. The benzo(a)pyrene and phenol concentrations in the cigar
condensate was two to three times greater than in cigarette "tar''" (itable
4). f£uhn, (58) compared the alkaloid and phenol content in conden-
sat!esfroman 80-mrn. Bright-blend cigarette sold comrnerciallyinAustria with, that obtained' from
103-mm. cigars. These were tested
TABLE 4.-Amounts of se77erall components of Z' g: o f particulate material
from mainstt eam smoke : of tobacco products
Tobacco product I
Standard' 8.5 mm. 8.5' mm.
Compound U.S. Havana pipe Cigarette plain U.S. plain UiS.
cigar A cigar B tobacco tobacco cigarette cigarette
(b) (b) in pipe, in pipe, (a) (b)
(b)
IrTicotine: (mg.)---------- 46.2' 63'.6'
Benzo(a)pyrene (µg.) ____ 3.9 3. 6'
Phenol (mg.)_----------- 8.2 6.7
a-Ctesoll (mg.)---------- 1.6 1. 7
m+p-Ciesol (mg.)------- 4.8 3: 8
m-}°p-Ethylphenoli (mg.)-_ 1. 1 1.5
56:1 61.0 65:9! 77:4
6. 0 3.6 L 2 1.3
15.0 7.3 ' 2.9 4. 1
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I Smoking conditions:
(a) 1 puff' per minute, duration 2'scc., puff volume 35' ml.
L
(b) 2 puffs~ per: minute, duration12 sec:,.puff volume 35 ml.
Source: HoHmann, et al. (.r,.4).

with and -without the use of a~ celhzl'oseacetatefilter. Tli~econcentra-tions of'totall alkaloids
andi phenol in the cigar smoke condensate were
essentially the same as in the cigarette condlensate, but pyridine values
were about 21/2 ti~meshicher in the cigar condensate.,
Campbell and, Lindsey (T7) measured' the polycyclic hydrocarbons levelsin thesmoke
of'asmal'1lpopular-type cigar 8.8'cm8 long, weighing,
1.9 ~ g.Significant quantities of anthracene; pyrene, ft'uoranthene, and
benzo(a)pyrene were detected in the unsmoked cigar tobacco, in con~-
centrations much greater than: thosee found in Virginia cigarettes butt
of the same order as those found in some pipe tobaccos: The smoking
process contributed consi:derably: to the hydrocarbon content of the
smoke. Table 5 compares the concentrations in the mainstream smoke
of'cigarettes; ci'gars;and pipes of fourhyd!rocarbons frequently found
in condensates. The authors reported! that the mainstream smoke from
a popular brand of small cigar contained the polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons; acenaplithylene, phenanthrene, anthracene, pyrene,
flnoranthene, andl benzo(a) pyrene. Theconcentrationse ofthese hyd~o-carbons in the mainstream smoke
were greater than those found in
Virginia, cigarette smoke.
Osman, et al. (69) analyzed the volatile phenol' content of cigar
smoke collected from a 7-g. American-made cigar wit.h: domestic filler..
Afterquantitativeanalysisof'ph:enol', cresols, xylenols,and'meta and
para ethyl phenol,, the aurthorsconcluded that the levelsofthesecom-
pound'sweregeneral'1y siiniilar to those reported for ciga:rettesmoke.
O'sma:n and Barson (68) also analyzed cigar smoke for benzene,
toluene, ethyl benzene, m-, p-;, and o-xylene m- and p-ethyltohiene,
1',2,4' triin.ethylbenzene; andi dipentlene, and generally found levels
within the.range of't:liose previously reported for cigarette condensates..
In summary, available evidence suggests that cigar smoke contains
mani- of the same chemicali constituents, including nicotine and; other
alkaloids, phenols, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as are found
TABLE 5.-A comparison of several' cliemical''compounds faund' in the
mainstream smoke of cigars, pipes, and cigarettes
Compound
1Vlicrograms per 100 g: o('tohiacco consumed
Cigars Pipes I ' Ci@arettps
Acenaphthylene--------------------------- 1.6 29. 1 5: o:
Anthracene------------------------------- 11.9 110. 0 10.9
Pyrene----------------------------------- 17.6 75!5: 12;5
3;4-benzp_vrene---------------------------- 3.4 8. 5 . 9
I This is a light; pipe tobacco.
Source: Campbell, 7: M., Lindsey, A. J: (17).
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tions whicli equal or exceed levels found in cigarette "tar.'"' A more
compl'ete picture: of the carcinogenic potential of cigar "tars"' is ob-
tainedi from experimental data in animals.,
Mortality
Overall MortalitySev.eral large prospective studies have examined the health conse-
quences of' various forms of smoking. The results of' these investiga-
tions have been reviewed in previous reports of the Surgeon General
in~ which the major emphasis has been on cigarette smoking and its
effect on overall and specific mortality and morbidity., The following
pages present a current review of the health consequences of smoking
pipes and cigars. Data~ from the prospective investigations of Dunny
et al. (31), Buell,, et a1.(16)1,Hirayama(42),, and W"eir and Dunn
(~105), are not cited, because in these studies a separate category for
pipe and cigar smokers was not established..
The smoking habits and mortality experience of 187,783 white men
between the ages of 50 and 69, who were followed for 44' months were
reported by Hammond and Horn (~41) . The overall mortality rates of
men who smoked pipes or cigars were slightly higher than the rates
of men who never smoked. The overalll mortality rate of cigar smokers
was slightly higher than that of pipe smokers.
In a study of' 41,00(Y British physicians,, Doll and Hill (28, 27) re-
ported the overall mortality of pipe and eigar smokers as being; only
1 percent greater than that among nonsmokers. Best (9),, in a study of
78;000 Canadian veterans, reported overall mortality rates of pipe andd
cigar smokers slightly above those of nonsmokers. Kahn (50) exam-
ined the death rates and smoking habits, of' more than 293,000: U.S..
veterans~ and Hammond (38) examined the smoking habits of and
mortality rates experienced by 440;559 men. In these studies pipe
smokers experienced mortality rates similar to t.hose of men who never
smoked regularly;, whereas cigar smokers had death rates somewhat
higher than men who never smokedi regularly. Table 6 summarizes the
results of'these five studies.,
Thus, data from the major prospective epidemiological studies
demonstrate that the use of'pipes and cigars results in a small but dlefi,-
nite increase in overall mortality. Cigar smokers have somewhat
higher death rates than pipe smokers, and mixed smokers who use
cigarettes in addition to pipes and cigars appear to experience an inter-
mediate levell of mortality that approaches the mortality experience
of' cigarette smokers.
495-028,oL--73'-- 13
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TnBLE 6.-M'orta:l'ity ratios for total deatJis by type of' smoking (males
only)
Smoking type
A uthorreference Non-
smoker Cigar
only Pipe
only Cigar
and
pipe Cigarette
and cigar Cigarette
and pipe Mixed
(cigarette
and other) Cigarette
only
Hammond and
Horn 1 (4o)---,
1. 00
1. 22'
ll 12'
1. 10
1.36 '
1. 50
1., 43'
1. 68
IDoTl and Hill
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1.28
Best (9)'----_--- 1. 00 1.06 1.05 .98' 1.22' ll 26 1.13 1.54
Kahn (dQ)------ 1. 00 1. li0 1. 07 1. 081 ------ ------- 1.51 1.84
Hammond 2
(3&)---------
1.00
1.25
1. 19
1.01
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1. 57
1.86
"Only mortality ratios for ages 50 to 69 are presented!
= Only mortality ratios for ages 8.5 to 64, are presentedl
Mortality and Dbse-Response R'elat'ionsliiPs
A consistent association existls between overall mortality and the
total dose of smoke a cigarette smoker receives. The methods most
frequently used'o to measure dosage of tobacco products are : Amount
smoked, degree of inhalat'ion, duration of smoking experience, age
at initiation,, and the amount of tar in a given tobacco product. Forr
cigarette smokers, the higher the dose as measured by any of tihese
parameters, the greater the mortali'ty.The significance of the small'i
increase in overall mortality that occurs for the entire group of pipe
and cigar smokers can be analyzed by examining the mortality of
subgroups defined by si¢niIar measures ~ of dosage as used in the study
of cigarette smokers,
A3TOUIr fr SMOKED
H!ammond and' Horn (40) reported' an increase in the overall mor-
tality of pipe and cigar smokers with an increase in, the amount
smoked. lndiv iduals who smoked more than four cigars a day or more.
than 10 pipefuis a day had deathi rates significantly higher than men
who never smoked (P<0.05 for cigar smokers and P'<0.05 for pipe
smokers) (t~able 7):. Cigar and pipe users who smoked less than thiss
amount experienced an overall mortality similiar to men who never
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srnokedl Thestludyof Canadian veterans (9)also~conta.ined evidenceof' a dose-response in mortality
by amount smokedl for cigar smoker5.
No dose-response relationship was observedl among pipe smokers (table
8). Kahn (50) reported a consistent increase in overall mortality
with an increase in the amount smoked for both pipe and cigar smokers
(table 9). Hammond (38) found' no consistent relationship bet«een
overall mortality and the number, of cigars or pipefuls smokedl
(table 10).
TABLE 7.-1Vlortalityratiosfor totat deaths ofcig,ar andpipc smokers by,
am:aunt smoked-Hammond and Horn
Amount smoked
Nonsmoker -----------------------------
Cigar only:
Total ------------------------------
1 to 4 cigars------------------------
}4 cigars--------------------------
Pipe only:
Total------------------------------
1 to 10'pipefuls----------------------
>10 pipefuls------------------------
Number of d@aths
Observed Expected 14lortalityratio
1,664 1, 664 1. 00!
653 598! 1.09!
410 400 1.03!
229 185 ll 24
609 560 ll 09
391 374' 1105
204 172' 1'.19
Source: Hammond, E. G., Horn, D. (40).
TABLE 8.-Mortality ratios for tatal' deaths of cigar and pipe' smokers
by amount smoked-Best
Amount smoked
10 to 20pipefuls---------------- 141 140. 84 1.00,
>20 pipefuls------------------- 36 35. 90 1. 00i
Number of deaths
Observed Expected Modality ratio
Nonsmolter------------------------- ---------- ---------- 1. U0
Cigar only:
Total-------------------------- 90 82 07 1'., 10
1 to 2 cigars-------------------- 64 564 05 ll 14
3 to 10 c'-gars. ------------------ 231 19: 40 1.19 > 1101 cigars--------------------- 1 1. 59 . 63
Pipe only:
Tota1-------------------------- 570 566.99 1.00
1 to 101pipefuls------------------ 374 370.09 1.01
Source: BestE. W. R. (9).
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The above e'vidence'suggests that a dose-response relia.tionship may
exist between the number of cigars and pipefuls smoked and overall
mortality. FIowe'ver,becauseof'thehigh-mortalit'y rate ofex-sm~oke'rs:
.
of cigars and pipes, it is difficul't to interpret the data presented with-
out out including this group with the continuing smokers. Without data
which examines patterns of both daily rate of smoking and inhal'ationn
at various age'leve]iS, no firm conclusions can be drawn as to the'nature
of this dosage relat'ionship,
'Tl'Anr.E' 9.-Mortality ratios for t'o~tdl~, death,s~ of cigar and pipe smokers
by age and' amount smoked=Kahn'
Mortality ratioage.
Amountsmoked
58 Qo 84
6S'to 74'
Pilbnsmoker-----------'-------------------------- 1.00 1.00
Cigar only:
Total--------------------------------------
1.01
1.08
11 to 4 cigars per day------------------------- .89 ll 00'
5 to 8'cigars per day------------------------- -, 1. 14 1L 23'.
>8' cigars per day-----'---------------------- 1.65 ' 1L, 28
Pipe only:
Total!-------------------------------------- -
1.08 '
v. 06,
1 to 4 pipefuls per day----------------------- 1. 16 .91
5 to 19 pipefuls per day'---------------------- 1.04 1. 10,
}19 pipefuls per day'------------------------ ---------- 1. 18
Source: Kahn, H. A. (5q).
TABLE 10.-Mortality ratios for total deaths of' cigdr and pipe smokers
by amount smoked`Hammond'
Amount smoked Mortality
ratlu
lwTonsmoker----------------- 1L, 00
Current cigar smokers:.
Total-------------------- 1L 09,
li to 4 cigars per day------- ll 03
>4 cigars per day--------- ll 18
Source: Hammond,,El. C. (18)'.
1' 82
Amount smoked M'ortalitip,
ratio
Current pipe smokers:
Total-------------------- 1. 04!
1 to 9 pipefuls per day----- 1.08
> 9' pipefuls per'dax------- . 92'

Inhalation ofl tobacco smoke directly exposes the bronchi and the
lungs to smoke and results in the absorption of'the soluble constituents
of the gas and particulate phases. Without inhalation tobacco smoke
only reaches the oral cavity and the upper digestive and respiratory
tracts and does not reach the lungs where further direct effects and
systemic absorption of various chemical compounds can occur..
Although the smoker has some voluntary control over the inhalation
of smoke, the physical and chemical properties of' tobacco smoke to a
degree determine its acceptability and "'inhaTability.7D'
The ~ condensate of pipe andi cigar smoke is generally found to be
alkaline when the pH is measured by suspending a Cambridge filter
in COz-free water. Cigarette condensate is slightly acidic as measured
by this method. Since alkaline smoke is more irritating to the respira-
tory tract, it has been assumed that the more alkaline smoke of pipes
and cigars was in part responsible for the lower levels of inhalation
reported by pipe and cigar smokers. Brunnemann and Hoffmann (15)
have analyzed the pH of whole, mainstream smoke of cigarettes and
cigars on a puff-by-puff'basis using a pH electrode suspended in main-
stream smoke: Smoke from several U.S. brands of'cigarettes was found
to be acidic throughout the entire length of the cigarette. Of' interest
was the findang, that cigar smoke also had an acidic pH for the first
two-thirds ofl the cigar and became alkaline only ini the last 20, to 40
percent of the puffs f rom the cigar. Available epideniiol'ogical evidence
indicates that most cigar smokers do not inhale the smoke and mostt
cigarette smokers db. The fact that smoke from the first half' or more
of a cigar is acidic, near the range of pH values commonly found in
cigarette smoke, and becomes alkaline only toward the end of the
cigar might suggest that the pH of the smoke of a tobacco product
may not be the only factor thatinfluences inhalation patterns. Per-
haps"`tar"' and nicotine levels as well as the concentration of' ok,her"irritating" chemicals also
affect the degree to which a tobacco smokee
will be inhaled.
Nicotine is rapidly absorbed into the blbod stream from the lungss
when tobacca smoke is inhaledl The amount of nicotine absorbed frorni
the lungs is primarily a function of the nicotine concentration in the
smoke and the depth of inhalation. Some nicotine may also be ab-
sorbed through the, mucous membranes of' the mouth. This is moree
likely to occur under alkaline conditions .chen nicotine is unprotonated
(3, 15, 79). This suggests that cigar smokers mayy be able to absorbb
some nicotine through the oralcauity without having to inhale, par-
ticulkarly during the time that the smoke from the cigar is alkaline.
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With the development of' sensitive measures of' serum nicotine levels
(48) the extent to which nicotine is absorbed through the membranes
of' the mouth in pipe and cigar smokers can be more accurately
determinedl,
Inhalation patterns of' smokers were determined in severaI of thee large prospective and some of the
retrospective epidemiological studies.
Inhalation was usually determined' by the administration of a ques-
tionnaire that required a subjective evalhiationi of one''s own patterns
ofinhalati~on. A1'thoughi the accuracy of t!heseqpestionnaiereshas not
been confirmed by an objective measure of inhalationS such as carboxy-
hemoglobin or serum nicotine levels, their reliability is supported by
mortality data whichdemonstlratehigber, overall andl specific death
rat'eswith self-reported increases~ in the depth of inhalation.
Doll and Hill (26) andI'-Iammond (3&')presented information on inhalation patterns of pipe; cigar,
and cigarette smokers (figs. 1, 2, 3i
and table 12). Some 80: to 90 percent of' cigarette smokers reported
inhaling, with the majority of' individ'uals inhaling moderately or
deeply, whereas most pipe and cigar smokers denied inhaling at all..
Pipe smokers reported slightly more inhalation than cigar smokers.,
For each type: of' smoking,, less inhalation: was reported' by older
smokers: This change may represent less awareness of inhalation,
differences in smoking habit's of' successive cohorts of smokers, or it
may reflect the: operation of'selectivefactorswhichfavor survival' of
noninhalers.
The Tobacco Research Council' of the United Kingdom hast since
1957iperiodi'eally reported the use of tobacco products by the British,
Figure I.-Inhalation among pipe smokers by age.
M'o
inhalation
Some
inhalation
Age 40
SOURCE: Hammond E: C. (38):
50
60'
70'
80
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SOURCE: Hammond, E. C. (38).
Figure 3.-Depth of inhalation among cigarette smokers by age: HammondL
None
Slight
inhalation
Moderate
inhalation
Deep
inhalation
AVge 40
SOURCE: Hammond'y E. C. (38).,
Recent reports edited by Todd have contained data on the inhalation
pattern of cigar, pipe, andi cigarette smokers (92, 93, 94). Table 11'i
shows that most cigarette smokers inhale a "lot" of "fair amount"
whereas most pipe and cigar smokers donot'inhaTeatalll or "just alittle."' Little change is observed
in the inhalatiion patterns of a given
product since 1968.
Best(9): reported inhalation data among, malie cigarette smoker&by
smoking intensity and age group, but did not report the inhalation~
60'
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pat'tlernsof' pipe andd cigarsmokers, The overall mortality ratesofs current pipe smokers who
inhaled at least slightly were reported by
Hammond'! (38) as being somewhat higher t'han for men who never
smoked regularly. The overalll mortlalityy rates of current cigar smokers
who reported inhaling at least slightly were appreciably higher than
for men who never smoked regularly (table 13).
Available: evidence indicates that cigarette smokers inhale smoke
to agreaterdogree than smokers~of cigarsorpipes:Once a smokerhasllearned to inhale
eigarettes,,hmRever, there appears to be a tendency
to also inhale the smoke of' other tobacco products. For cigars,, this is
evidently true whether one smokes both cigarettes and cigars or
switches from cigarettes tlocigars (tables 1!4, 15;16).
Bi-ossand Tidings (14): examined th:einhal'at'ion patt'ernsofs smokers of' large cigars, cigarettes,
and those «.ho switched from one
tobacco product to another (table 15). Nearly 75 percent of those who:
were currently smoking only cigarettes reported inhaling "almost every
puff" and only 7 percent never inhaled. The opposite was true for per-
sons who had always smoked' only cigars among whomi 4 percent re-
TA$LE' 11~.-Th,e~ extent of' inhaling pipes;, cigars, d~~nd~~ cigarettes~ 8y,
British; males aged 16' and over in 196'8' and 1971
V
Tobacco product
Amount
of inhalation ~ Cigars Pipes Cigarettes
~ 1968 1971 1968 1971 1958 1971
Iilhale a lot------------------------
23
19
8
8
47
47 C
Inhale a f'air amount---------------- 16 19 1'0I 8 31 W
Inhale just a lit'tle------------------ 27 27' 24 ' 26' 13' 15
Do not inhale at a11L---------------- 34 35 59 58 9 8 P;
Total------------------------ 100~ 100~ 100 100~ 1001 100
Sourae: Todd, Ci. F. (91; 94).
TABLE 12.-lniial'ation among cigar, pipe, and' cigdrette
smokers
by .lr
age-Doll and Hill
Percentage of [nhalers, age
Smoking type.
26'.to.34~.
35to~44
4b~to64
b8~to164~~.
&5~.to74:
>74~,
Cigar and pipe---------------- 12.00 10.00 ' 7. 00, 5:-00 4.00 4.00
Mixed (cigarette and other)----- 74. 00 60. 00 47. 00 36! 00 30. 00 26.00
Cigarette onlx---------------- 90. 00 85: 00' 75. 00 66: 00 58. 00 41.00
Source: Doll, R'., Hill, A. B: (P6)i
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ported inhaling almost every puff and 89' percent said they never
inhaleclL Cigar smokers who also smoked cigarettes reported inter-
niedi'ate levels of inhalation between the cigar only and' cigarette only
categories. Inhalation patterns~ weresimilar whet.her~ theindivi'dua1
continued to smoke both products, stopped smoking cigarettes but
continued smoking cigars, or stopped smoking cigarettes and
switched to cigars. In alll three groups, about 20 percent reportedd
inhaling "almost every puff." This suggests that once an indi'vidualP's
inhalation patt~ernsare established on cigarettes, hemaybemorelikel:y
to inhale cigar smoke if he switches to cigars, or uses both cigars and
cigarettes, than the cigar smoker who has not smoked cigarettes.
Tad'd! (93) reported similar data for a sample of' smokers in the
United Kingdom (table 16). The preti-.allence of! inhaling a"lot"' or
"fair amount" of smoke was highest among cigarette smokers who -were
currently smoking cigarettes (77percent)and lowest among, current
cigar smokers who had previously smoked only cigars or pipes (188
percent). Individuals nho, switched from, cigarettes to cigars maiat-
TABLE' 13,-Afortality ratios for total' dedtJts of cigar ¢nd' pipe smokers
by age cund intuclat£on-Hdmmond
Irlhalation
hEortality ratio, age
45' to 84 , 65 ta 84
Nbnsmoker----------------------------------------- 1.00 1.00
Cigar only:
Total------------------------------------------
ll 09
.98
No inhalationL -_---------,-----__
---------------- 1.02 .91
Some inhalatlion--------------------------------- 1.28 1. 37
Pipe only:
Total------------------------------------------
1.04
.95
No inhalation-----,------------------------------ . 98 .87
Some inhalation--------------------------------- 1.21 1. 11
Source: Hammond, E. C:,(d8).,
TnBLR 14.-Percentage of' British male cigar smokers who reported'g inhaling a lot or a fair amount
by type of' product'smoked
Type of product
1968
1971
Number of Percent Number oi Percent'.
indiwidua]s individuais
Cigars only------------------------- 706 23.0 111 27.0
Cigars and cigarettes----------------- 1, 193 42'. 0 277 44.0
Cigars and pipes--------------------- 596 35.0 109 32.0
Cigars;,cigarettes; and pipes---------- 26 52'.0 15 32.0
Source: Todd, G. F. (99. 9,1).
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tainedl somewhat higher levels of cigar smoke inhalation than those
cigar smokers who had never smoked cigarettes (30' percent).
Toddl (93) examined further tlhe relationship between the inlialationn
of' cigarette andd cigar smoke. In generaly cigarette smokers who
switched to cigars were much less likely to report iiihaling, cigar
smoke: than cigarette smoke:;, however, those who in the past reportedd
inhaling cigarette smoke a"lot" or "fair amount"'' were much moree
likely to report inhaling cigar smoke to the same degree tlian those ex-
cigarette smokers who in the past did not inhale the smoke of their
cigarettes, (ta}51e 17)~..
TABLE 15.-Percentage of' individuals reporting inlialdtion of "almost
every puff" of tobdcco smoke by current and previous tobacco usage and'
type of tobacco used'
Type,of tobaeco smoked
Number Percen-
f T
inh
l
d t Confidence
limits
-
Current usage
Previous urage ype
a
e
age
o
patients inhaled:
Lower Upper
Cigarettes only---- Cigarettes only____ 2; 359 Cigarette__- 74.8 73: 1 76.6
Cigarsionly_______ CiRars onl'y_______ 649, Cigars----- 4. 5 3. 0 6. 0
Cigarettes and
cigars. Cigarettes and
cigars. 520 _____do__,___ 20: 4 10: 5 28.0
Cigars Cigarettes and
cigars. 93I ----- do_____ 118.3 ' 9.0 30.0
None------------ Cigarettes and'. 186 ----- do_-___ 21.5 ' 17.8 24.2 '
cigars.
Cigars----------- Cigarettes only---- 64 ----- do----- 117.2 16.0 281 0
Source: Bross, I:,D. J:,,Tidings;,L (14).
TA;BLE 16.-Percentage of B'ritish males who reported' inhaling a lot or
fdir, amount of cigar smoke : by current' dnd' previous tobacco usage and'
type of tobacco previously smoked (1968)
Type of'tobacco smolred, Number of
individuals
Type inhaled Percentage
inhaled
Current usage Previous usage
Cigarett'esonly_-______ Cigarettesonly------ 2,586 Cigarette'-____ 77:7
Cigars only----------- Nonsmoker--------- 306 Cigars_______ 18.0
Cigars only--,---------- Cigarettes only------- 321 -----do------- 30:0
Source: Todd, O. F. (9k).
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TABLE 17.-Extent of reported inhalation of' cigar smoke by British
male cigar smokers who were ex-cigarette smokers in 1968; analyzed
by extent of' reported' inhalation of' cigarette smoke when previously
smoking cigarettes
Extent of inhaling cigars
Extent of inhaling cigarettes
Inhale a lot Inhale a littln
oriair amount or not at all'
Percerel' Percent
Inhale a lot or fair amount-----------------,------ 44.0 5.0
Inhale a little or not at all------------------------ 56: 0 95.0
Tota1------------------------------------ 100:0~ 100.0
Sample size-------------------------------------
Source: Todd, (]I. F. (9S).
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Speciflc Causes of Mortali'tty
Cancer
Several prospective epidemiological studies have'n shov'n a signifi-
cantly higher overall cancer mortality among pipe and cigar smokers,
compared to;the cancer mortality ofl nonsmokers (table 18)'.
Pipe and cigar smokers have mu& higher rates of cancer at certain
sites than at others. The upper airway and upper dfigestive tracts
appear to be the most, likely target organs. The relationship of'pipe
and cigar smoking to the develbpment ofl specific cancers i's detailed
in the follbwing sections,
TABLE 118.-Mortdli.ty ratios for total ' cancer deaths in cigar, and pipee
smokers. A sumnzdry of prospective epidemiological'studies
Type of smoking,
Author~ reference
Nonsmoker
Cigaronly
Eipe only
Total pipe
and cigar
Cigarette
only.
Hammond'and Horn (!0)-,--- ll 00 1: 34 1. 44! -,--,----- 1.97
Bestl (9) ------------------- 1.00 L 13 1.38 -------- 2.06
Hammond (38) ------------- 1.00 ------- ------- 1! 21 1.76
Kahn (60)----,------,------- 1.00 1.22 ll 25' ll 25' 121
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Cancer of the Lip.
Approximately 11,500~ new cases of' cancer of the lip are reported
each year. Because of the possibility of early detection and surgical
accessibility of'cancers in this area, there aree less than 200~doaths from
cancer of't'h:elip each year in the United States. Sotne,ofthe earliest
seientific investigations exploring the association betweeni tobacco, use
andd disease examinedi the smoking patterns of individuals with cancer
of'the lip.
Broders (13) in 1920 examined'' the smoking habits ofl patients in
a retrospective study of' 526' cases of epithelioma of the lip andi 500
controls.. Of the cancer cases, 59 percent smoked pipes, whereas this
was true for only 28 percent of'the control's. No association: was found
betR.een cigar or cigarette smoking and cancer of the lip.
In a restrospective study of 439' clinic, pat'ient's with cancer of' the
lip andl 300, controls conducted in Sweden, Ebenius (32') reported a
significant association between pipe smoking and cancer of tlie lip,
A total of' 61.8 percent of the lip cancer cases smoked pipes, while
only 22.9' percent of' the controls smoked pipes. No association was
found between the use of cigarettes, cigars, or chewing tobacco and
cancer of the lip.
][ni other retrospective studies, Levin, et al. (60) reviewed a series
of' 143' cases of cancer of the: lip, and Sadowsky, et a1: (77)' reviewed
571 cases of cancer of'the lip. lfn both studies, a strong association was
floundl between pipe smoking and cancer of the lip. No significant
association was found between the use of tobacco in other forms and
cancer at this sit'e:
l[n, a study of environmental factors in cancer of the upper alimen,
tary tract, Wyndier, et al. (113)', found an association between pipe
smoking, cigarette smoking, and cancer of'thelip: There were only 15
cases of cancer of the lip in this study:S~taszewski (87)examinedi the smoking habits of 394 men
with
carcinoma or precancerous lesions of the lips. An associationi wasfoundl between tlh:e, smoking of
pipes and cigars and cancer of the lip;
but this was only of doubtful significance. A significant associationn
was found between the use of'cigaret't'es and cancer of the lip.
Keller (51) conducted a study of lip cancers in which he considered
a number of factorsincluding, histologic types, survival,, race,occupa-tions habits, and
associated diseases. A total of 304 patients with
primary basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the lip and'i 304
controls from the same hospital matched for age and race «-ere con-
sidered in this series. A significant association was floundl between
smoking in a11 forms~ and'' combiziationsand carcinoma of thelip., Iitl
was a1'so found that inereasing: age andi outdbor occupat'i'ons with
exposure to~ thesuni wereequadly significant factors in the etiology ofl
lip cancer.
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In summary, it appears that there are several factors involved in
the etiology of cancer of the lip. Among the various forms of'tobacco
use, pipe smoking either alone or in combination with other forms of'
smoking seems to be a cause of cancer of'the: lip. Table 19 summarizes
the results of'these retrospective studies.
Oral! Cancer
The lips, oral cavity, and pharynx are the first tissues exposed to
tobacco smoke drawn in through the: mouth. Variations in inhalation
during,the smoking,of various.tobacco products result in different pat-
terns of distribution of smoke throughout the respiratory tree. How-
ever, the oral cavity and adjacent tissues are the sites most consistently
exposed to tobacco smoke. For this reason, differences in inhalation
should result in less variation, in exposure to tobacco smoke for these
sites than for the lower trachea and t.he lung. The inherent carcinogen-
icity of pipe, cigar, and cigarette smoke is most reliably compared at
those tissue sites where dosage and exposure to, tobacco smoke are most
nearly equal. Data from, the epidemiblogical studies suggest that little
difference:exists between the smoking of'cigarettespipesor cigars and
the risk of developing orallcancer.
Hammond and Horn (40) examined the association between smok-
ing in, various forms and cancer of'the combinedi sites of lip, mouth,,
pharynx, lary.nx,, and esophagus. The mortality ratios were 5.00 for
cigar smokers,, 3.50 for pipe smokers; and 5.06 for cigarette smokers
comparedto:nonsmokers. All the deaths from cancer of the lip, oral cav-
ity, and pharynx reportedl by Doll and Hi1D (26) occurred in smokers..
The death rates from cancer at these sites were 0.04 per 1,000 for pipe
and cigar smokers, 0:10 per 1,000 for mixed smokers, and 0.05: per 1,000
for cigarette smokers. A fairly detailed analysis of oral cancer was pre-
sented by Kahn (50) who differentiated between cancer of the oral
cavity and cancer of the pharynx. The mortality ratios for oral cancers
were 1.00 for those who never smoked, 3.89 for all pipe and cigar
smokers; and 4.09 for cigarette smokers. A further breakdown of the
pipe and cigar smokers demonstrated a mortality ratio of'. 4.11 for
cigar smokers, 3.12 for pipe smokers,,and 4!.20 for smokers of pipes and
cigars. For cancer of the pharynx, the mortality ratios were 1.00 for
those who never smoked,, 3.06' flor all pipe and cigar smokers; andl 12.5
for cigarette smokers. No deatihs oceurredl among those who smoked
only cigars: The mortality ratio was 1.98 for pipe smokers and 7.76'
for smokers of pipes and cigars. Hammondl (3b')' combined cancers of
the lip, oral cavity, and pharynx. The pipe and cigar smokers had a
mortality ratio~ of 4.94 and the cigarette smokers a mortality ratio of
9:90 compared to nonsmokers.
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TABLE 19.-Relat,ive risk of lip cancer for men, comparing cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers with
nonsmokers. A summary
of retrospective studies
Author, reference
Broders (13) :
Cases-----------------------
Controls_____________________
Ebenius (32) :
Cases-----------------------
Controls____________________
Levin, et al. (60) :
Cases-----------------------
Controls____________________
Sadowsky, et al, (77) :
Cases-----------------------
----
Controls____________________
Wynder, ' et al. (11 3) :
Cases-----------------------
Controls--------------------
Staszewski (87) :
Ca,ses-----------------------
Controls_____________________
Keller: (51):
Cases-----------------------
Controls---------------------
Number Relative risk ratio and percentage of cases and controls by type of smoking
Nonsmoker Cigar only Pipe only Total pipe
and cigar Cigarette
only Miaed
Relative risk____________ 1.0 0 0.8 4.3 --------- 0 ---------
537 Percent cases___________ 7 19 41 --------- 1 -
500 Percent controls_________ 4 16 6 --------- 26 ---------
IZelative 1.0 .7 4.1 0.5 _______ _________
439 Percent cases___________ 49 6 41 4 ------- ---------
300 Percent controls_________ 65 12 13 10
Itelative risk____________ 1.0 1.9 2.9 - 1
4
143
Percent cases___________
15
27
48 --------
-
---------
-- _ .
- -
45 _________
-
---------
554 Percent controls_________ 22 20 24 --------- 46 ---------
Itelative risk_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1. 0 1. 1 4. 3 2.6 1.4 0.4
571
- Percent cases___________ 8 2 18 6 44 22
615 Percent controls_________ 13 3 7 4 53 19
Relative risk------------ 0 . 8 1.8 --------- 1.0 2.2
14 Percent eases___________
- 0 7 29 --------- 36 29
115 Percent controls_________ 24 9 16 --------- 36 13
Itelativerisk------------ 1.0 _________ 2.1 2.4 ________-
394 Percentcases------------ 7 _________ 12 73 _________
912 Percentcontrols_-_______ 13 _______-_ 11 61 __-______
Relativerisk____________ 1.0 1.4 4.0 2.6
301 Percentcases------------ 7 2 6 1 60 6
265 Percentcontrols--------- 17 4 3 0 53 0
I Percentage based on less than 20 patients. Ratios: relative to cigarette smokers.
;.

These studies are summarized in table 20: They demonstrate that
<wokers experience a large:andsignifieant risk of developing, cancer
uf the oral cavity compared tononsmokeils: This risk seems~tobeabout
rhe same for all smokers whether an individual uses a pipe, cigar, or
i ~ aret.te..
1 number of retrospective studies have examined the relationship
between smoking in various foims and cancer of'tlte orat cavity. Thee
results of these studies are presented in table 21L Some of the variations
i n relative risk of'developing, oral cancer observed in the retrospective
~
-tliclies is probablyy dhie to the lack of a uniform definition of oral cancer r
1)v anat'omie,al sit''eand the variaus, means used in sel'ecting, and deff!n-{
in r cases and controls. It appears, however, that a significant risk of t
developing oral cancer exists for smokers compared to nonsmokers
and this ri'sk is similar for smokers of pipes, cigars, and cigarettes.
j
Several epidemiological investigations liave demonstrated an asso- ?
<<iation between the combined use of alcoholi and tobacco and the
~
de~~elopment of oral ll cancer.X few of these studies (i52, 6°~y6~3, 109)~~ i
contain data on pipe and cigar smokers. Heavy smoking andi heavy ~
drinking are associated withi higher rates of oral cancer than are seen {
with either habit alone. 1
TAsnE 20.-11'lort¢lity ratios for oral can+cer in cigar and pipe smokers.
A summary of prospective epidemiological studies
e
0
® Author;, reference.
m
~
~ Hammond'and Hornl'(40)-
Doll and Hii11,2 ' (26,,2'7)---
Hammond ('38)----------
Kahn (b0)',:
Oral 4'----------,---,-
Pliarynx'------------
Smoking type
Non-
smoker Cgar
only Pipe
only Total pipe
and cigar Cigarette
only Miaed'
1.00 5: 00 3. 50 -------- 5. 06 -_------
0. 00: -------- ------ 0: 80, 1.00 2: 00
1.00 -------- ------ 4.94 3'9. 90' --------
1L 00 4.11 3. 12 3,89 4.09 --------
1.00 -------- 1'.98' 3.06 12. 54 --------
I Combines dataSor oral;,laryna; and esophagas:,
2 Ratios: re]ative to cigarette smokers.
3 Mortality ratios for ages 45 to 64 only are presented.
4'Eacludes pharynx.
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Cancer of the Larynx
The larynx is situated at the upper endl of the trachea. Because of!
its' proximity to the oral cavity, the larynx probably has a similar'
exposure to smoke d~ra.vn through the mouth as the buccal cavity and
phaaynx. Tobacco smoke that is not inhaled! may stilll reach as far as
the larynx and upper trachea. Pipe, and cigar smokers develop cancer
of thelitrynx at rates comparable to those of cigarette smokers. These
a.
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3?AALt: 21.-Relative risk of oral cancer for men, comparing cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers uilh
nonsmokers. A summary of retrospective
studies
Author
reference Relative risk ratio and percentage of cases and controls by type of smoking
Number ------
, Nonsmoker Cigar only Pipe only Total pipe
and cigar Cigarette Mixed
only
n7ills and Porter (65): Relative risk_____________ 1.0 -________ -------- 7.0 4. 1_________
Cases-----------------------
-- 124 Percent cases------------ 10 --------- -------- 55 36 ---------
Controls-----------. -------- 185 Percent controls---------- 38 --------- -------- 30 32 ---------
Sadowsky, et al. (77): Relative risk_____________ 1.0 2.0 4.4 --------- 1.4 2. 1
Cases----------------------- 1, 136 Percent cases____________ 8 4 i8 --------- 42 28
Controls_____________________ 615 Percent controls---------- 13 3 7 --------- 53 23
Schwartz, et al. 1. (&3) : Relative risk------------- 1.0 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
---- 1.6 --------- 1.5 ---------
Cases----------------------- 332 Percent cases------------ 16 3 --------- 63 ---------
Contr-ols-- - - - - - - - - - - - -------- 608 Percentcontrols---------- 23 77 3 --------- 58 --
------
Wynder, et al. (109):
--- - - - Relative risk_____________ 1.0 3.6 6. 1_ --------- 3.0
3
3.3
Cases----------------------- 543 Percent cases------------ 3 20
- 11 --------- 57 8
Controls_____________________ 207 Percentcontrols---------- 10 13 6 --------- 63 8
Wynder, et al. (113): Relative risk_____________ 1.0 1. 7 .9 _________ 1.2 1.4
Cases----------------------- 115 Percentcases------------ 23 13 12 --------- 37 16
Controls_____________________ 115 Percentcontrols---------- 26 9 16 --------- 36 13
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Wynder, et al. (116) : Relative risk_____________
- - 1.0 6.0 -------- --------
.P. Case9----------------------- 178 Percent cases---__-_--__- 4 33 -------- --------
~ Controls--------------------- 220 Percent controls__--_-_-__ 16 22
0
N
x
Pernu (73):
Relative risk_____________
- -
1.0
-
-__-_-__
3.6
--------
I Cases----------------------- 1,400 Percentcases___-___-____
-- 21 ________
-- 10 ________
w Controls_____________________ 713 PercentcontroLs__-____-_- 39 -------- 5 ________
I
~ Staszewski (87):
Relative risk_____________
1.0
-_______ 3.5
Cases----------------------- 383 Percent cases____________ 6 -------- 13
Controls_____________________ 912 Percent controls---------- 17 it
Keller (52) : R.elative risk_____________ 1.0 3.1 3.8 2.2
Cases-----------------------
--- 408 Percent cases____________
-- 5 7 4 10
Controls_____________________ 408 Percent controls__________ 14 6 3 13
Martinez (62): Relative risk_____________ 1.0 1.7 1.3 ________
Cases-----------------------
---- 170 Percentcases____________ 8 10 1 ________
Controis--------------------- 510 Percent controls__________ 14 10 2
Martinez 1 (63) : Relative risk_____________ 1.0 2.0 2.8 ________
Cases----------------------- 346 Percent cases___-________ 12 10 15 _____
Controls--------------------- 346 Percent controls__________ 22 9 1
F This study comhtnes data for oral cancer and cancer of the esophagus.
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2.2
59
50
2.9
11
7
3.6 ---------
72 ---------
61 _________
3.4 ________-
69 ---------
56 __-_---_-
1.5 2.3
39 34
44 25
1.7 2.5
34 34
36 25

rates are several times the rates of nonsmok:ers. The siQnilarity of the
mortality ratios of cancer of the larynx f'or smoking in various fonns
suggests that the carcinogenic potentials of the smoke from cigars,,
pipes, and cigarettlesare quite alike at thissi'te.
Several of tlhe~ prospective epidemiological studies include d'at~aan
deaths from cancer of the larynx for pipe and cigar smokers as «eldl
as forcigaretlt'esmokers.Havnmond and I-1orn (40), combined data for
cancer ofl the larynx with cancer of the esophagus and oral cavity.
The mortality ratios comparredi to nonsmokers were 5'.00~ for cigar
smokers, 3.50~ for pipe smokers, and 5:06' for cigarette smokers, Tlrere
were no deaths from carcinoma of' larynx among nonsmokers in
tlhe' study of I>1'ri'tish physicians by Doll and Hill! (26:)~ ; however, thedcath rate for cancer
of the lary.nx among pipe and'cigar smokers:was
0.10 per1I,000 wh:ilethe deathi rate.f'or cigarette smokers was 0.05' per
1,000. Kahn ('50)reportedmortallityrat'~i'osforcancer of'thelarynx of10:33' for cigar smokers; 9!441
for pipe and cigar smokers, 7.28 for all
pipe and cigar categories'combined~ and 9.95 for cigaret!te smokers: No
deaths from cancer of the larynx occurred in pipe smokers: 1-I<ammond
(38) reported a mortality ratio of 3.37' for all pipe and cigar smokers
and a mortality ratio of 6.09 for cigarette smokers in the age category
45 to 64. These studies are summarized in table 22.
Several': retrospective studies have examined the smoking habits of
patients with cancer of the larynx and appropriately matched controls.
The small number of'e pipe and'r cigar smokers ihi each study results in
relative ri'sk ratiost that are quite unstable; however, it appears tliatt
pipe and cigar smokers experience a risk of' developing, cancer of'thee
larynx that is similar ta the risk observed among cigarette smokers
(table 18).
TABLE 22.-Mbrtality rdtios for cancer of th,e larynx in cigar and pipe
smokers. A summary of prospective epidemiological st'ud'2es
Author, reference
Smoking,type
Mixed
Non- Cigar only Pipe only Total pipe Cigarette
smoker and cigar only.
Hammond and Horn 1
(40) ------------------ 1.00 5.00 3.50 -------- 5.06 --------
Doll and'Hill z(26; 27)--_ 0: 00, -------- ------ 2.00 L 00 0.60
Hammond (38)'---------- 1. 00 -------- ------ 3. 37 3 6. 09.........
Kahn (50) -_ -,-_ -,------_ _ 1.00 10.33 ' ------ 7.28 9.95 --------
I Combines data for oral, larynx, and esophagus.
I Ratios: relative to cigarette smokers.
3: onlymortality ratios, for ages 45 to fr4'are presented.
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the
'ns
rs,,
oni
elll
or
ty.
;ar
~re
in
be
,as
ler
~of
a.ll
Jo'
4d
its
ry
~
df.
Is..
in
at.
lie
rs.
Wynder, et al. (108, 113) distinguished' between intrinsic and ex-
trinsic larynx caneers: For smokers the relative risk of' developing
cancer of the intrinsic larynx was similar to the relative risk of lung,
cancer whereas the relative risk of dev.eloping extrinsic larynx cancer
was more like the relative risk of cancer of theiupper digestive tract.
Histologic changes of the larynx in relation to smoking ini various
forms were described by Auerbachy et al. (5):. Mi.croscopic sections of'~
the larynx from~ 942 ' subjects were examined flor the presence of
atypicali nuclei andi proliferation of' cell rows. Sectionsi were taken
from four separate areas of the larynx in eachicase: Among those who
smoked cigars and pipes but'nat cigarettes;only I percent had no~
atypical cells and niore than i5i percent of the subjects had lesions
with 50 to 69 percent atypical cells. Four of'the cigar and pipe smokers
had carcinoma in situ and in one of these four cases earlyy invasion
was seen in three of the sections. Of those who never smoked regu-
Iarly.,i5 percent had no atypical cells. Tlieci'garand pipesm~okers,had
ai similar percentage of cells n it.h atypical! nuclei as cigarette smokers
who smoked one to two packs per day,. With respect to the proli£era,
tion of cell rows in the basali la}.er of the true vocal cord; the least
proportion of cases with eight or more cell rows was found in men
,,ii never sm~oked,, and the greatest proportion was found in heavy
cigarette smokers. Pipe and cigar smokers had a distribution of celll
rows that was comparable to that of cigarette smokers who consumed
about a pack a day.
Several retrospective studies have reported an association between
t'.he combined' use of tobacco and alcohol and cancer of the larynx. A
study by `Vynder, et al. (108) included some information on pipe and
cigar smoking in relation to drinking habits and the develop:nent of
cancer of the larynx,, but because of the limitied number of' pipe and
cigar smoking subjects this relationship could! not be adequately
determined.
Cancer of the Esophagus
The esophagus is not dfirectly, exposed to tobacco smoke drawn into
the niouthi; however, the esophagus does have contact with that portion
of tobacco smoke that is condensed on the mucous membranes of the
mouth and pharynx and then swallowed. The esophagus i's also ex-
posed to a portion of tobaccosmoke, tllatis~deposit,edl in the mucus
cleared from tlle lung by the ciliary mechanismior by coughing. Varia-
tions in inhalation of~ atobacco, product maynot appreciably alter the~
exposure the esophagus receives from smoke dissolved in mucus and
saliva. This suggest.ion receives support from the prospective and
retrospective epideneiolopcal studies which demonstrate simillar mor-
tality rates for cancer of the esophagus in smokers of'cigars, pipes, andl
cigarettes.
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TABLE 23.-Relative risk of cancer of the larynx for men, comparing cigar, pipe, and cigarette
smokers with nonsmokers.
A summary of retrospective studies
Author, reference
Number Relative risk ratio and percentage of cases and controls by type of smoking
Nonsmoker Cigar only Pipe only Total pipe
and cigar Cigarette
only Mixed
Schrek, et al. (s1) : Relative risk------------ 1.0 0 1. 1 --------- 2.3 ---------
Cases----------------------- 73 Percent cases----------- 14 0 7 --------- 80 ---------
Controls--------------------- 522 Percent controls--------- 24 10 11 --------- 59 ---------
Sadowsky, et al. (77) : Relative risk------------ 1.0 2.2 2.3 --------- 3.7 4. 1
Cases----------------------- 273 Percent cases----------- 4 2 5 --------- 60 29
Controls--------------------- 615 Percent controls--------- 13 3 7 --------- 53 23
Wynder, et al. (108) : Relative risk------------ 1.0 15.5 27.7 11. 1 24.6 ---------
Cases----------------------- 209 Percent cases----------- .5 8 5 1 86 ---------
Controls--------------------- 209 Percent controls--------- 11 10 4 2 74 ---------
Wynder, et al. (118) : Relative risk------------ 1.0 9.7 4.5 --------- 6.3 6.3
Cases----------------------- 60 Percent cases----------- 5 17 15 --------- 47 17
Controls--------------------- 271 Percent controls --------- 24 9 16 --------- 36 13
Wynder, et al. (116) : Relative risk----------- 1.0 14.5 16.0 --------- 22.0 16.0
Cases----------------------- 142 Percent cases----------- 1 20 1 --------- 62 16
Controls--------------------- 220 Percent controis--------- 16 22 1 --------- 45 16
A f.
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Pernu (73): Relative risk------------ 1.0 ___-___-_ 4.5 --------- 8.7 3.2
Cases----------------------- 546 Percentcases-__--______ 7 __--___-_ 4 ____
----- 78 4
--
Controls--------------------- 713
Percent controls---------
39
---------
5 -
---------.
50
7
Staszewski (87): Relative risk------------
_ 1.0 -_____--_
--- 5.9 50.2_ __-____--
Cases-----------------------
--- - 207 Percent casee-----------
- -- . 5 _-_______
-- 2 88 ---------
_--
Controls--------------------- 912 Percent controls--------- 17 --------- 11 61 _______-_
Svoboda (90): Relative risk------------ 1.0 --------- 2. 6 --------- 10.0 ---------
Cases----------------------- 205 Percent cases----------- 3 _ 3 --------- 95 ---------
Controls--------------------- 320 Percent controls--------- 22 --------- 7 --------- 71 ---------
Stell (&&) : Relative risk------------ 1.0 _____-__- 1. 3 2.4 --______-
Cases-----------------------
_ -- - 190 Percent cases-----------
- --- 11 -_____-__ 8 79 ---------
Controls_____________________ 190 Percentcontrols--------- 17 ___--_-__ 10 50 ---------

In the prospective epidemiological studies, cigar,, pipe, and cigarette
smokers alll had similar mortality ratios f'rom cancer of the esophagus.
Hammond and Horn (4D)' combined the categories of carcinoma of
the esophagus, lEarynx, pharynx, oral cavity, and lip and described
mortality ratios of 5.00 for cigar srnokers, 3.50' for pipe smokers, andl
5.06 for cigarette smokers. Dolll and Hill (26) reported an esophageal'
aancer mortality ratio of 2:0'for pipe and cigar smokers4.8 for mixedl
Smokers, and 1.5' for cigarette smokers. Kahn (50) reported the fol-
lowing mortality i atias for smoking in various forms cornpared to non-
smokers: cigar only, 5,33; pipe only, 1.99;, pipe and cigar, 4.57; all
pipes and cigars combined, 4.05; and cigarettes only, 6.17. The results
of these prospect.ive studies are summarized in table 24.
Several retrospective investigations have also examined the assoeia,
tion~ between smoking in various forms and cancer of the esophagus.
These studies have been summarized in table 25. The evidence sug-
gests that cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers develop cancer of the
esophagus atrates substantially higher than those seen in nonsmokers,
and that little dift'erence exists between these rates observed in smokers
of'pipes and cigars and cigarettes.
Histologic changes in the esophagus in relation~ to smoking in vari-
ous forms were investigated by Auerbach, et all (7), who looked for
atypical nuclei, disintegrating nuclei, hyperplasia, and hyperactive
esophageal glands. A total ofl 12,598 sections were made from tissues
obtained fromi 1,268 subjects. For each of t.he parameters investigated,
pipe and cigar smokers demonstrated sigmificantl more abnormal
histologic changes than nonsmokers; however, these changes were not
as severe or as frequent as those seen in cigarette smokers.
Several retrospective studies conducted in the I7nitedl States and
other countries have examined the synergistic roles of tAbacco use and
heavy alcohol intake on the development of cancer of the esophagus.
Four ofl these investigations contain data on pipe and cigar smoking
(12, 62, 63: 107). It appears that smoking in any form in combination
with heavy drinking results in especially high rates of cancer of the
esophagus..
TnsLE~ 24.-Morttclity, ratios for cancer of the esophagus in cigar and
pipe smokers: A summary of prospective epidemiological studies
Smoking type
Author, reference Non-
smoker Cigar
only Pipe
only Tbtal
pipe and
cigar Cigarette
only
Mixed
HammondlandHbrnJ'(40)_ 1.00 5.00 3! 50 -------- 5.06 --_-_---
IDo11 and Hill (.°C6; ,°L7),__,-_ 1.00, -------- ------ 2.00 1.50 4180
Hammondl (3S)---------- --, 1.00 --------, ------ 3: 97 "4. 17 -,-------
Kahn (60)'-------------- 1. 00 5.33 1.99 4.05 6. 17 --------
I Combines data for oral, Jarynx,,and esophagus.
2 Mortality ratio for ages 45'to &Sl
200

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fI-- y ~
11 m
TABLE 25.-Relative risk of cancer of the esoph,dgus for men, comparing cigar, pipe, and cigarette
smokers with nonsmokers.
A sumrriary of retrospective studies
N
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Relative risk ratio and percentage of cases and controls by type of smoking
Author, reference Number -
--------
Nonsmoker
------- -
Cigar only
Pipe only
Total pipe
and cigar
--
Cigarette
only
Mixed
-
Sadowsky, et al. (77): Relative risk------------ 1.0 4.8 3.8 5. 1 3.8 3.3
Cases 104 Percentcases
-
-
-- 4 5 8 6 60 18
-----------------------
_-- --
-
---
-
Controls--------------------- 615 Pereent controls--------- 13 3 7 4 53 19
Wynder, et al. (118): Relative risk------------ 1.0 3. 1 2. 1 --------- 2.6 . 4
Cases 39 Percent cases
-
-------- 13 15 18 --------- 51 3
-----------------------
--- -
-
Controls--------------------- 115 Percent controls --------- 24 9 16 --------- 36 13
Pernu (73) : a Relative risk------------ 1.0 --------- 3.0 --------- 2.7 5.9
Cases 202 Percent cases----------- 17 --------- 7 --------- 59 18
-----------------------
----
Controls--------------------- 713 Percent controls --------- 39 --------- 5 --------- 50 7
Schwartz, et al. (84): Relative risk------------ 1.0 --------- 2.6 --------- 11.7 8.6
Cases----------------------- 249 Percent cases----------- 2 --------- 2 --------- 88 7
Controls--------------------- 249 Percentcontrois--------- 18 --------- 7 --------- 67 7
Wynder and Bross (107): Relative risk------------ 1.0 3.6 9.0 6.0 2.8 3.7
Cases----------------------- 150 Percent cases-----------
- 5 19 9 4 51 11
Controls--------------------- 150 Percent controls--------- 15 16 3 2 55 9
,.

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TABLE 25-Relative risk of cancer of the esoph,agus for men, comparing cigar, pipe, and cigarette
smokers with nonsmokers.
A summary of retrospective studies.-.-Continued
Author reference Number
Bradshaw and Schonland (12):
Cases----------------------- 117
Controls--------------------- 366
Martinez ( 62) ;
Cases-----------------------
120
Controls--------------------- 360
Martinez ! (63):
Cases-----------------------
346
Controls-------------------- 346
Relative risk ratio and percentage of eases and controls by type of smoking
Nonsmoker
Relative risk------------ 1.0
Percenteases 15
-----------
-
Percent controls--------- 32
Relative risk------------ 1.0
Percentcases----------- 8
Percent controls--------- 14
Relative risk------------ 1.0
Percentcases----------- 21
Percent controls--------- 22
Cigar only
---------
---------
---------
2.0
9
8
2.0
10
9
Pipe only
- Total pipe
-and-cigai Cigarette
only Mixed
4._ 8_ -------- 2. 3---------
41 -------- 63 ---------
18 -------- 58 ---------
-------- 1.5 2.2
-------- 31 43
-------- 34 34
2.8 -------- 1. 7 2.5
15 -------- 34 34
1 -------- 36 25
I This study combines data for oral cancer and cancer of the esophagus.
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Lung Gancer.
Abund'ant evidence has accumulated from epidemiological~ experi-
»iental, and autopsy studies establishing, that cigarette snn.oking is the
major cause of lung cancer. Several prospective epidemiological!
studies have demonstrated higher lung cancer mortality ratios for pipe
and cigar smokers than for nonsmokers, but the risk of d'eveloping,lung
cancer for pipe and cigar smokers is less than for cigarette smokers.
Table 26 presents a summary of' these prospective studies.Dose-
i esponse relationships such as t'hose that helped demonstrate the nature
of'the association between cigarette use and lung cancer could not be
as thoroughlystudied for pipe and' cigar smokers because of the rela-
tiv ely few smokers in these categories. Although the number of deaths
were few,,Doll and Hill (26) reported increased death, rates from lung,
cancer for pipe and cigar smokers with increasing tobacco consump-
tion (tablE27)..Kahn (50) also demonstrated a dose-response relation-
ship for lung cancer by the amount smoked (table 28).
A few of the retrospective studies contained enough smokers to allow
an examination of dose-response relationships for pi'pe an:d cigar smok-
ing and lung cancer (1, 61, 74; 77). An increasedi risk of developing
lung cancer was demonstrated with the increased use of pipes and
cigars as measured' by amount smoked and inhalation. The retrospec-
tive i'nv estigation of Abelin, and Gsell (1) is of particular interest, The
smoking habits of 118 male patients with cancer of the hing from a
rural' area of Switzerland were compared with those reported in a sur-
vey of' all male inhabitants ofl a~ tawn ini the same ree on. About 20~
percent of the population of this: area were regular cigar smokers, the
nlost'popular cigar being the Stumpen, asmald S~viss-made machine-
manufactured cigar cut at both, ends with an average weight of 4.5 g.
Iln this investigation, cigar smokers experienced a risk of developing
lung cancer that was similar to the risk of cigarette smokers. A dose-
response relationship was demonstrated for inhalation and amount
smoked. These data suggest that the heavy smoking of certain cigars
may result in a risk of lung cancer that is similar to that experienced
by cigarette smokers.
Several pathologists have reported histologic changes in the
bronchiall epithelium in relation to~smoking in various forms:Knudt-
son (57)~ examined the bronchial mucosa ofl 150 lungs removed at au-
topsyy and correlated the histologic changes note.dl with the history
of smoking, age, occupation, and residence. Specimens obtained from
the six cigar, and pipe smokers demonstrated basal cell hyperplasia;;
however, there was no squanious or atypicali proliferative metiaplasiaa
as is frequently seen in the heavy cigarette smokers.
Sanderud (78) examined histologic sections from the bronchiali tree
of' 100 male autopsy cases for the presence of' squamous epithelial.
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metaplasia. In this study, 39 percent of the populittioni were non-
smokers, 20 percent were pipe smokers,, and 38 percent smoked cig-
arettes: A total of 80 percent of the pipe smokers and cigarette smokers
diemonstrated squamous metaplasia of'the bronchial.t'ree, whereas only
54 percent of'the nonsmokersl2ad this abnormality.
Auerbachy, et al.(6), examined 3~6;340histologiic sect'iionsobtainedfrom 1,522! white adul'tsfbr
variousepithelial lesions including:
presence or absence of'cil'iated cell§, thicknes&or number of'cell rows,
atypical nuclei, and the proportiom of cel2s of' various types. The
pathologic findings in the bronchial epit.helium, of pipe and cigar
smokers are compared to those found in nonsmokers and cigarette
smokers (table 25)!. Pipe and cigar smokers had abnormalities that
were'intermediat,e'between thoseof'nonsmokersand cigaret't~esmokers;although cigar smokers had
pathologic changes that in some categories
approached the changes seen~ in cigarette smokers.
TnBLn~ 26~.-Mortality, ratios~~ for' lu~n.g, cancer deatlts ' in male, ~ cigar and'~
pipe smokers: A summary of ' prospective studies
Auth
fe Type of smoking
or, ,re
renoe
Non-
smoker
Cigar
only
Pip' a
only
Totl;l'pipe
and cigar
Cigarette Di~iaed'
only.
Hammond and'Horn (40)- 1. 00, 3,35 ' 8.50 -------- 23, 12 19.71
Doll and Hill (26, 27)--,-- 1. 00' -------- -----,- 6. 14 13.29 7: 43'
Best (8)' --------------- 1.00 2.94 4.35 -------- 14.91 --------
Hammond (38) ---------- 1.00 1.85 I 2.24 1.97 9: M 7.39
Kahn (6.q)-------------- 1.00 1. 59! 1.84 1.67 12. 14 --------
TAByE 27.-Lung cancer death rdtes for cigar and pipe smokers by dmount
smoked -Doll dnd' Kzll
8inoking type Death rate per 100 Number of deaths
1wTonsmoker-----------------------,---------- 0. 07 3
Cigar, and pipe:
I to 14 g. per day-----------------------
.42 42
12
15't&24 g. per day---------------------- .45 6
>24 g;,per day------------------------- . 96 3
Cigarette only------------------------------ .96 14'3'
8ource: Doll, R., Hill, A. B: (t6).
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Tns>:;E2'8:-Lung, cancer mortality ratios for cigar and pipe smokers by
am ount' sm oked-KaJtn
ined
ing:
o`ss,
The
igar
rette
that
kers,
)riess
ted
i
9: 71
7.43'
7. 39
xunt
3'
12
6
3
143
Smoking ,type
Mortality ratio Number of deaths
ti onsmoker--------------------------------- 1. 00, 78'
Cigaar smokers:
<5: cigars per day'-----------------------
ll 14
12'
5 to 8' cigars per day--------------------,- 2.64 11'
>8 cigars per day----------------------- 2.07 2
Pipe smokers:
<5 pipeful§ per day---------------------
.17'
2~~.
5 to 19 pipefuls per day------------------ 2.20 12
> 1'9' pipefuls per day-------------------- 2.47 3
Cigar and pipe:
8 or less cigars, 19 or less pipefuls-------_-
1.62 '
18
>8 cigars, >19 pipefuls------------------ 2'. 19 2'
Source: Kahn, H.,A. (50).

TABLE 29.-Relative risk of lung cancer for men, comparing cigar, pipe, and_ cigarette smokers ?/I2th
nonsmokers. .okers. A sum-
mary of retrospective studies
Relative risk ratio and percentage of cases and controls by type of smoking
Author, reference Number - __-
Nonsmoker Cigar only
- Pipe_ only Total pipe
and cigar Cigarette Mized
only
Levin, et al. (60) : Relative risk--
- -- - ---------- 1.0 0.7 0.8 --------- 2. 1-__--_-__
---------
Cases-----------------------
--- 236 Percent cases- ---------- 15 11 14 --------- 66 ---------
Controls_____________________ 481 Percent contro ls--------- 22 23 25 --------- 44 ________-
Schrek, et al. (81): Relative risk-- ---------- 1.0 . 6 .7 --------- 1. 7_________
---------
Cases 82 Percent cases 15 4 5 61
----------------------- - ----------
- --------- __-__-___
---
Controls____________________ 522 Percent contro ls--------- 22 23 11 --------- 59 __-__-_--
Wynder and Graham (111): Relative risk 1.0 5. 1 3
6 -
15.7
--
-- ----------
- - . ______-__ __---__-
Cases----------------------- 605 Percent cases- ---------- 1 4 4 --------- 91 ---------
Controls-------------------- 780 Percent contro ls--------- 15 8 12 --------- 65 ---------
Doll and Hill (25): Relative risk-- ---------- 1.0
-----_ --------- 5. 1--------- 9.6 -______--
---------
Cases-----------------------
--- 1,357 Percent cases-
- ---------- .5 --------- 4
- --------- 74 ---------
Controls--------------------- 1,357 Percent contro ls--------- 5 --------- 7 --------- 69 ---------
Koulumies (56) : Relative risk-- ---------- 1.0
- - --------- 9.6 ---------
---------
29.3 ---------
Cases-----------------------
--- 812 Percent cases- ---------- 6
-- --------- 2 --------- 77 ---------
Controls-------------------- 300 Percent eontro ls--------- 18 --------- 6 --------- 76 ---------
Sadowsky, et al. (77) : Relative risk-- ---------- 1._ 0 2.4 1._ 4_-_____-_ 3._ 7 5.6
Cases----------------------- 477 Percent cases- ---------- 4
--- 2 3 ---------
------ 57 31
-
Controls_____________________ 615 Percent control s--------- 13 3 7 --------- 53 19
A
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1.0
4.0 -
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---- --- --- - - - 477 Percent cases
Controls 4
615 Percent controls____ 2
-- 13 .1
Wynder and Cornfield (110):
Cases -----------------------
Controls _-
Controls---------------------
Randig (74):
Cases-----------------------
Controls_____________________
fi3
133
415
381
Mills and Porter (65):
Cases----------------------- 444
Controls_____________________ 430
Mills and Porter (66):
Cases----------------------- 484
Controls_____________________ 1,588
Schwartz and Denoix (82);
Cases----------------------- 430
Controls --------------------- 430
Stocks (89):
Cases----------------------- 2,101
_ _---
Controls--------------------- 5,960
Lombard and Snegireff (61):
Cases----------------------- 500
Controls_____________________ 1,839
Pernu (7g):
Cases----------------------- 1,477
--
Controls--------------------- 713
Relative risk____________
--
Percentcases___________
Percent controls_________
Relative risk_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_----
Percentcases___________
Percent controls_________
Relative risk____________
-
Percent cases___________
Percent controls_________
Relative risk_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
-
Percent cases___________
Percent controls_________
Relative risk____________
Percent cases___________
Percent controls_________
Relative risk____________
Percent eases___________
Percent controls_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Relative risk_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Percent cases___________
Percent controls_ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Reiative risk_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
- -
Perc-ent cases___________
Percent controls_________
3 ------- 57 31
7 --------- 53 19
1.0 2.5 4.0 _________
4 13 6 ___-_-__-
21 27 8 _________
1.0 5.3 5.0 -_-__-_--
1 21 11 __________
6 19 11 ___ __
1.0 --------- --------
7 --------- --------
--
31 --------- --------
1.0 --------- --------
8 --------- --------
---
28 --------- --------
1. 0 ---------
1
11
1.0 ---------
2 ---------
9 ---------
8.5 ---------
77 ___-
45 ---------
5. 0 ---------
67 ---------
64 ---------
6.0 5.4 _________
37 55 ---------
26 43
2. 8 4. _5 _________
13 78 ---------
16 57 _________
4. 7 --------- 13.5 ---------
---
6 --------- 96 ---------
14 --------- 78 ---------
3. 1 --------- 5.0 ---------
---- - - -
Q --------- 89 ---------
13 --------- 78 ---------
1.0 --------- --------
2 --------- --------
---
10 --------- --------
1.7 8.1 _________
4 95 _____
15 75 _________
1.0 --------- 4.2 --------- 9.2 11. 1
7 4 --------- 77 13
-- -
39 --------- 5 --------- 50 7
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TABLE 29.-Relative risk of lung cancer for men, comparing cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers with
nonsmokers. A sum-
mary of retrospective studies-Continued
Author, reference Number Relative risk ratio and percentage of cases and controls by type of
smoking
Nonsmoker Cigar only
~ --- -- - Pipe only
~ Total pipe
and ctgar Cigarette
only Mixed
Wieken (106): Relative risk------------ 1.0 ---------
- -------- 2.2 4.3 4.2
Cases
803 Percent cases 4 10 78 7
-------------------------
------- ----------- --------- --------
Controls----------------------- 803 Percent controls--------- 14 --------- -------- 16 64 6
Abelin and Gsell (1) : Relative risk------------ 1.0 30.7 21.8 39.9 31.0 24.7
Cases
118 __ Percent cases 2 28 7 58 25 24
-------------------------
---- -- -----------
Controls----------------------- 524 Percent eontrols--------- 35 19 6 31 17 10
Wynder, et al. (115) : Relative risk------------
- - 1.0 --------- -------- 2.0 12.4 ---------
---
Cases------------------------- 210
-- Percent cases ----------- 3 --------- -------- 5 92 ----
Controls----------------------- 420 Percent controis--------- 21 --------- -------- 15 47
,.

TABLE 30.-Changes in bronchial epithelium of male cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers as compared to
no71smoker$
N
O
Group
Number of
subjects Percent sections
Sections with with epltheliai
epitheliuum- lesions Percent 3 plus
cell rows with
cilia Percent
atypical cells
present
Total
sections Percent
hyperplasfe and
goblet cells in
glands
~
1st set (none vs. pipe vs. cigarette-_matched
on 1:1 basis) :
i+Tonsmoker----------------------------
- - -
20
985
21.7
11.2
2.6
1,031
10.3
Pipe only ------------------------------ 20 924 65.5 38. 1 37.0 979 35.9
Cigarette only------------------------- 20 914 96.8 88.6 95.2 982 72.1
2d set (none vs. pipe vs. cigarette-matched
on frequency basis) :
Nonsmoker----------------------------
25
1,246
22.9
13.4
. 7
1,277
11.5
Pipe only---------.---------.------------
- 25 1,164 68.7 38.7 38.2 1,247 37.9
Cigarette only------------------------- 25 1,126 96.3 88.7 99.5 1,237 75.5
3d set (none vs. cigar vs. cigarette) :
Nonsmoker----------------------------
_ _ -
35
1,706
27.4
12.7
. 8
1,748
15.3
Cigar only-------.---------.------------- 35 1,733 90.8 40.0 73.6 1,828 52.5
Cigarette only------------------------- 35 1,526 99.0 92.7 97.8 1,693 80.2
Source: Auerbach et al. (6).
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Tiimorigenic Activity
The tumorigenic activity of tobacco smoke can be modi,fi'ed ia1~ both a
quant'itat.iveand' qualitati'vesense. Physical or chemical changesimtobacco that result in a
reduction of' total particulate matter upon
combusion of a given quantity of tobacco may result in a reductionn
of carcinogenic potential. Suchi factors as tobacco selection, treatment,
blendi~ng;cut, and' addit.ivesmay quantit'ativelyaltertar~ production..
Wrapper porosity and filtration, may also affect tar production.
Quantitative changEs in the tumorigenic activity of tobacco tar on
a gram-for-gram basis can be producedl by the selection and treatmentt
of'tobacco,,the use of additives or tobacco sfieets; or adjustments in the
cut and packing,density.C'ombustion temperature can also produce quantlitative changes in
the particulate matter of tobacco smoke. Although high-temperature
burning producesIess particulate matter in the smoke, i't appearsthat
tumorigenic components occur in higher concentration when tobacco is
pyrolizedi at'tlemperat'uresliigher than 70p° centigrad'e(;34).
Cigars, pipes, and cigarettes are similar in that they are smoked
orallyy and have a common site of introduction to the body. The tissues
of the mouth,, larynx, pharynx, andl esophagus appear to receive ap-
proximately equal exposure to the smoke of these products: Inlialationn
causes smoke to be dlrawn deeply into the lungs and also allows for
systemiic absorption of' certain constlituent:sof tobacco: smoke which
then can be carried further to other organs.
Pipe tobacco and cigars vary from cigarettes in a number of charac-
teristics that can produce both quantitative and qualitative changes i'n
the total particulate matter produced by their combustion. Experi-
mental evidence suggests that althoughthere is some difference in the
amount and quality of tar prodiucedl by cigars, this cannot account for
the reduced mortality observed'' i'n cigar smokers compared to cigarettee
smokers..
Experimental Studies
Several experimental, investigations have been conducted to examine
the relative tumorigenic activity of tobacco smok- condensates obtained
from cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.llTost of these studies were standard-
ized in aniattempt to make tlie results of the cigar andlpilpe experiments
more directly comparable with the cigarette data and most used the
shaved skin of mice for the applieation of tar. Tars from cigars, pipes,and cigarettes were usually
applied on an equal weight basis so that
qualitative differences in the tars could: be determined. In sev.eral ex-
perimentsthe nicotine «-asextracted from the pipe and cigar conden-
sates inani attempt to reduce the acute toxic effects that resulted inn
animals, from the high concentrations of' nicotine frequently fonnd in
these.prodnct'se
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Wynder and' Wright (117) examined the differences in tumorigenic
activity ~ of~~ pipe and cigarette condiensates. Tars~ were~ obtained by ~ the~
smoking of a popular brand of king-size cigarettes and the same ciga-
rette tobacco smoked in 12 standard-grade briar bowl pipes. Both the
cigar.ettes~ and pipes~were~ puffed three~ times a minute~ with a,2'-secondd
puff! and a35-ml. volmne. Both the~ cigarettes~~ andl pi'pes~attained similar
masilnum combustion zone temperatures; however, the use of cigarette
tobacco in the pipe resulted in a combustion chamber temperature that
averaged~ about 150~°'centigrade~ higller~than temperatures, achieved
when pipe tobacco was uscdL Chemical fractionation was accomplished
and equal concentrations of the neutral fraction were applied i'n threee
weekly applications to~ the~ shaved skin of~ CW1F, and Swiss mice. The~
results~indicate,that neutral tar obtainedif'rom, cigarette~tobacco~ smoked,
in piipes, is more activ~e~tl7an that obtained in the~usual manner from~
cigarettes. About twice as many-. cancers.vere obtained in both the CAFl
and the~ Swiss~mice,~ and t'he~ latent period was~~ about~2 months shorter..
Extending these data, Croninger, et~a]. (20)~ examined the~ biologic:
activity~ ofl tars obtained from, cigars,~ pipes, and cigarettes., Each form
.
of tobacco was~~slnoked as~it was~rmnu~factured in a manner tolsimulateI
11nm~ani smoking or to~ maintain tobacco combustion. The whole~ta.r was~
applied in, dilutions of one-to-one~ andl one~-to-two~ with acetone~ to~ th~e~
shav ed backs of female CAF;, andl female Swiss mice using three
.~l~hlications~each~ ~~ eek~for the life-span span of'the~ animal. The ni eotine~~ ~ti ~as~
extracted from~ the~~ pipe and cigar~ condensates~~ to~ reduceI the acute
toxicity of~the solutions. The Swiss mice,,pipe~cigar, andci~garette~tars
produced both benign and m~alignant tuinors: The incidence irates~~ of'
maligfil~Uat tumors given as:percent''~s z~ ere~: 44411, and 37; respectively~.
These resnlts suggested a somewhat higher degree of carcinogenic
activity ~ for cigar and pipe ~ t~a rs thani for cigarette tlair:
Similar~ results were~ reported by Kensler (53): who~applied conden-
sates obtained from cigars ancL cigare:ttes, tl the shaved skin of~ mice:
The incidence of papillomas produced by cigar smokee concentrate was
no~~ different from~ that of~ theI cigarette~ smoke~ condensate. Similarliy;~
there~ «-as~~no~ difference between cigar and cigarette~smoke~condensates
when caTci~noma~ inci~dences~were connpared..
Homburgeret a~~lL (.1.:.~)~, prepared tars~from cigar,,pipe,,and cigarette
toiaecos~ that were smoked in the fQrm of cigarettes. ]fni this~ way all
tobaccos were smoked~~ in an identicall manner~and uniform combustion
temperatures~ «ere~ achieved.~ Recause~~ of this stlanelardivation,~ diff~er-~
ences~ in tumor~ yield could be attributed to~ tobacco blend~ and not the~
manner in which the~ tars~ were, prepared. The~ whole tars were diluted
one-to-one «ith, acetone and applied! to the shavecl, skin of~ CAF, mice
three~ tiines a.ieek for the lifespan of~ the test animal. Skin, cancers~
were~~ produced more quiekly.~ with pipe: andl cigar smol:e condensates
than~ with cigarette smake~ condellsat'es. This~suggests~that~the~ smoking~
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of' pipe andi cigar tobaccos in the form of' cigarettes does not alter the
condensates to any significantdlegree.
Davies and Day (22) prepared tars from small cigars especially
manuf'actured from a composite blend of cigar tobacco representing,
small cigar brands smoked in the United Kingdom,, cigarettes espe-
cially manufactured from the same tobacco used for the cigars de-
scribed above, and plaini cigarettes especially manufactured from a
cpmpositle~ blend of ' flue-cured tobacco representing the major plain
cigarette brands smoked in, the United Kingdom. The whole tar was
diluted to four concentration levels and applied to the shaved backs
of' female albino mice for their lifespan using four dosing, regimens.
A statistically significant increase in mouse skin carcinogenicity was
shown with the cigar smoke condensate compared with the tars
obtained from eitherflue-cured~ or cigar tobaccociga:rettes. Theseresults are consistent with those
of'' the: previously reportedd
investigations.
The effect of curing on carcinogenicity was examinedl by R'oe et al.
(76)~. Bright tobacco grown in Mexico was either flue-cured or air-
cured and bulk fermented. Both flue-curedand air-cured tobaccos were
made into cigarettes standardized for draw resistance and were smokedd
u~nder similar, condi'tions. Condensates from thesecigarettes, werea:p-
plied to mouse skin three times each week in an, acetone solut'.ion. The
development of'skin, tumors«-as, higher in mice treated with! the flue-
cured condensate than in mice treated with the air-cured condensate
(P'<O:Q1'1). The dilff.erence may have been due to the use of equal
weights of condensate rather than the use of extracts from an equall
number of cigarettes. Theaiir-cured cigarettes~ produced a, greater
weight of' condensa;tethani didi t!he~ flue-cured cigarettes. A chemical
analysi'sof the two tobaccos and two condensates revealed only sma111
differences in composition. Evidently air curing of Bright tobacco
in the methodl usedl is nott associated' with a loss of reducing sugars.
A more detailed analysis of these experimental studies is~ presentedl
initable 31.
These experimental data suggest that cigRr and pipe tobacco con-
densates,havea carcinogenic potential that is comparabletocigarettecondensates.Thisissiihport~ed
byhuman, epidt;miologiical data for
thosesitesexposedequallyt'o tli:esmoke of cigars, pi~pes, and cigarettes.The partially alkaline
smoke derivedl fromi pipes and cigars is gen-
erally nott inhaled,, and as a result there appears to~ be a lower level
ofexposureof the lungs and other systems totlie harmful properties of
pipe and cigar smoke tha,n, occurs uithcigarette smok~iiig.ftis~ antic~-ipatled that
1nodificationsin pipetobaccolor cigarswhich would result
in al product that was more readily inhalablewould eventually result
in elevated mortality fromicaneeraf the liuig,, bronchitis,an:d emphy-
sema, arterioscleroticcardi,ovascu~lar diseases, and the other condi~tions which have been clearly
associated with cigarette smoking.
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TASLE 3 1.- Tumorigenic acti7lity of cigar, pipe, and cigarette smoke condensates in skin painting
experiments on animals
(Key: A=Method. B=Frequency. C=Duration. D=Material.)
Percent
Author, reference Animal Activity Treatment Number
Papillomas
Carcinomas
Wynder and
Wright CAFI and
Swiss mice. A. Painting shaved skin.
B. 3 times a week. CAF1:
Pipe (cigarette tobacco)___-_-
30
60
20
(117). -- -
C. Lifespan_ (24 months). ---
Cigarette-------------------
30
30
3
D. Neutral fractiop tar from
cigarettes and cigarette Swiss:
Pipe (cigarette tobacco)___-__
30
63
50
tobacco smoked in pipes. Cigarette------------------- 30 63 33
Croninger, et Female Swiss A. Painting shaved skin. Cigar, nicotine free (1:1) ------- 46 65 41
al. (20). mice. B. 3 times a week. Pipe, nicotine free (1:1)-------- 45 71 44
C. Lifespan. Cigar (1:2)___________________ 78 33 18
D. Whole tar diluted in Pipe, nicotine free (1:2)-------- 89 30 16
acetone. Cigarette (1:1)---------------- 86 47 37
Acetone controls______________ 23 0 0
Kensler (6$)__-_ Swiss mice______ A. Painting shaved skin. Cigar tar (J) 100 mg. per
week__ 100 42 41
B. 3 times a week. Cigarette tar (G) 100 mg. per 100 40 28
C. Lifespan. week.
D. Whole tar diluted in Cigarette tar (E) 100 mg. per
- 100 34 34
acetone. week.
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TABLE 31.-Tu7no7"igenic activity of cigar, pipe, and cigarette smoke condensates in skin painting
experiments on animals-Continued
(Key: A=Method. B=_h'requency. C=lluration. L)=Material.]
Author, reference Animal Activity
Homburger, et CAF, mice------ A. Painting shaved skin.
-
al. (45). B. 2 to 3 times a week.
C. Lifespan (2 years).
1?. Whole tar diluted 50 per-
cent in acetone.
Davies and Female albino A. Painting shaved skin.
Day (22). mice. B. Varied.
C. 116 weeks.
D. Whole tar in 150 mg.
-
acetone.
Roe, et al. Female Swiss A. Painting shaved skin.
(76). mice. B. 3 times a week.
C. Lifespan.
D. Whole tar diluted in
acetone.
Treatment Number
Percent
Papillomas Carcinomas
Cigar tobacco cigarettes t 65 mg. 100 37.5 19
per week.
Pipe tobacco cigarettes t 64_ ing. 100 23 20
per week.
Cigarettes' 62 nig. per week---- 100 15 23
Acetone controls-------------- 100 0 0
Cigars, small 83 mm. long 150 144 44 27
per week.
Cigar tobacco cigarettes 150 72 32 14
per week.
Cigarettes 150 per week-------- 144 28 13
Flue-cured Bright tobacco 180 400 52 30
-
mg. per week,
Air-cured Bright tobacco 180 400 68 23
mg. per week.
Acetone controls 0.75 cc. per 400 1. 3 0.5
week.
I Cigar, pipe, and cigarette tobacco smoked as cigarettes ut similar combustion temperatures.
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The majority of deaths in the United St'ates each year are due to
cardiovascular diseases. Cigarette smoking has been identified as aa
major risk factor for the development of coronary heart disease
(~CHD). However, pipe and cigar smokers experience only a small
increase in mortality from, coronary heart disease above the rates of
nonsmokers. Cigarette smokers have higher death rates from cerebro-
vascular disease thannonsmokers, .vhereas pipe and cigar smokers have
cerebrovascular death rates that are only sligkrtly above the rates of
nonsmokers.. Table 32 summarizes the major prospectiv e epidemiologi-
cal inv estigations that eramined the association of smoking in various
forms and total cardiovascular diseases, coronary heart disease, and
cerebrovasculardi'sease: Doll and, Hill. (w8), Best (9), and Kahn (50)~,
examined dose-responserelat'ionshspsfor pipe and cigar smokers andG
reported a slight increase in mortality from~ coronary: heart disease
with an increase i:n the number of'ci'garss or pipefuls smoked.
Other prospective epidemiological studies have also examined the
relationship of smoking in various forms to coronary heart disease and
related riskfactors: Jenkins, et al.(19)in the Western Collaborative
OroupStudy of coronary heart disease, reportedl an incidence of' coro-
nary heart disease in men aged 50 to 59 whowere pipe and cigar smok-
ers that `vas intermediate between the rates seen in cigarette smokers
and nonsmokers. No ~increase in incidence of coronary heart disease was
seen arnong; the pipe andr cigar smokers in the younger age groups..
Shapiro, et al. (8a.), in a study of' the: health insurance plan (HIP')
population, reported incid'ence rates for myocardsal infarction, angina
pectoris, and possibleMI, in pipe and cigar smokers that were similar
tio the incidence rates seen in cigarette smokers. These rates were con-
siderably higher than those of nonsmokers. Data from the pooling
project (47) suggested that the incidence of CHD deaths, sudden
death, and the first major coronary event in pipe and cigar smokers
was intermediate between the incidence experienced by cigarette smok-
ers and nonsmokers. In contrast to these stud'ies; Doyle,, et al. (30)
reported no increase in CHD deaths; myocardial infarctionor angina~
pectoris in pipe and cigar smokers over the rates of nonsmokers in the
Framingham study.
The retrospective studies of Mills and Porter (64), Villiger and
Heyden-Stucky (104), Schimmler, et al. (80):, and Hkood,, et al. (!I;6:)i
contained' data suggesting that pipe and cigar smokers experience
mortality rates from coronary heart disease that are essentially similar
to those esper.ienced by cigarette smokers. The retrospective study of'
Spain and Nathan (86) reported lower ratesof' coronaryheart dis-
ease in all smok~ing, categories than were: found in nonsrnokers,Van Buchem (103), and Dawber, et
al. (23): examined serumcholes-terollevels, in groups of individuals classified accord'hng to,
sm,oking
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habits., In theset'wostudies; pipe and cigar smokershad serumclioles,
terol let-els that were nearlly irlentiical with the levels found in
nonsmokers.
Tibblin (91) and Dawber,,et al. (23)1 investigated tllie~effect'of'smok-
ing on blood pressure. The proportion of smokers d'ecreased in groups
with higher blood pressures, although this was not as dramatic for
pipe and cigar smokers as it .vas'for cigarette smokers:
IIn an experimental study using anesthetized dogs, Kershbaum and
Bellet (54, 55): examined the effect's of inhaledl and noninhaled ciga-
rette; cigar, and& pipe smoke on serum free fattyy acid levels and urinary
catecholamine and nicotine eieretiom In this study, inhalation of to-
bacco smoke from all these sources resulted in similar increases in
serum free fatty acids and in catecholamine and nicotine excretion.
TABLE 32. 1l2ortad2ty, ratios for cardiavascular d'edths in: male cigar and
'
pipe smokers, A summary, of prospective epidemiological st'udies
Author, reference
Category Type of'smoking
Non- Cigar
smoker only Pipe
only Total Clga-
pipe,and rette only 14fYaed
cigar
Hammond and Cardiovascular 1. W 1.26 1.07 ' ------ 1.57 _____-
Horn, (40). total.
Coronary-----------
1.00 1.28 '
1.03 '
------ 1.,70' _-__-_.
Cerebrovascular-_ _ _ _ 1.00 1.31 1.23 ' _ - _- - _ 1.30 _ _ _ _ _ _
Dol'Landi Hill' Cardiovascular 1.00 ----- ------ 0.99 1.26 1.13'
(26, 27). total.
Coronary----------- L 00 ----- ------ .941 1.23 ' 1. 18
Cerebrovascular-_--_ 1.00 ----- ------ .95 1. 13 .97
Best (9) -------- Cardiovascular 1.00 1. 14' .95 ------ 1. 52 __-_-_
total.
Coronary-----------
1'.00 .99
1.00
------ 1.60 -_--__
Hammond ~ Cerebrovascular_-_-_
Cardiovascular 1.00 11 ' 28
1. 00 ----- .85
------ ------ .88
U. 06 ll 90 _--___
(38). total;
Coronary.----------- 1. 00 1.35 11. 19 ------ 1'.84 1.58
Cerebrovascular__--_ 1.00 ----- ------ 1.09 1'.41 1.40'
Kahn (50)------ Cardiovascular 1.00 1. 05 1'. 06 1! 05' ll 75 ____--
tot!al.
Coronary-----------
1. 00, 1.04
11. 08
IL 05 ll 74 -___-_
Cerebrovascular~___-- 1. 00 1.08 11. 09 1L 06 L 52' __---_,
I Mf ortality. rat i.os ~{or ages~ 5'b to 64~4 only, are,. presented .
CHRONIC OFBS"rRi;('TIi\'E PUL3fON:1RY DISE.aSE ((iO!PD)'.
Chronic bronehiti~s~and pulmonary emphysema account for most of
the, morbidity: and~, mortality from chronic respiratory disease in~ the~
L7nit~~ed titates. Ciga~rette snookers~ have~ higher deat1l, rates fiom~ thesc~
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diseases and have more pulmonary symptloms and impaired pul-
monary function than nonsmokers. Cigarette smokers also have more
frequent and more severe respiratory infections than nonsmokers.
The relationship between smoking, pipes andi cigars and these diseases
is summarized in tliis chapter. The major prospective epidlemio3ogical
studies are summarized in table 33,
In a retrospective studly of' 1,189! males, andl matched controls in
Northern Ineland,Wicken (106.)~ investigated smoking in various
forms~and mortality from bronchitis. Th~erelativerisk ratios com-
pared to nonsmokers for mortality f'rom, chronic bronchitis were 1.98for all smokers. 1.55 for pipe
and eigar smokers, 2.25 for cigarette
smokers, and 1.49 for mixed smokers.
Nroma review of these prospective and retrospective studies, it
from
appears~~ that pipe andl cigar~ srnokers ex'perience~ mortalit~y~ rates~~
,
a - 11 1,.. ,.1,;4: 111 ll. tih,,+T, ,~h fli. ML.,. .,E., r.Fl
I 11 .< .......... .... LLZ.,,~~~...,u ..,..u .. ,.,~,.~~ .,. .., ...~ ....~., .,~ ...,..
I . I smok,ers~., Although, these mo~ra~lrity.~ rates~ approach those of' ci'gare,tte~~
smokers, in most iiist~ances~ they are~ intermediate between the rat'es~ of cigarette smokers and
nonsmokers.
i d Pipe and cigar smokers have significantly more respiratorysymp-
r toms andl illnesses! than nonsmokers. Those, studieswh,ich contain data
on pipe and cigar smoking as relatedl torespiratorysymptomsaresummarized in table :34.
Only a few studies have examined pulmonary function in pipe and
cigar smokers. There appearsta be little ditFerence in pubuonary func-
tion~ values for pipe and cigar smokers as compared to nonsmokers
0
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~7 + Naeye (67) conducted an autopsy study on 322 Appalachian coal'
~ workers who were classified according to the type of coal mined and
tobaccousage: Eznphysemawas slightly greaterin cigarettesmokers,
as were anatomic evidences of chronic bronchitis and bronchiolitis.
'1L'
hose chan
es found in
l
e and cr
ar smokers were intermediate
g
p
p
g
I
~ between those of cigarette smoking, miners and nonsmoking msners.
5gChanges in~ pulmonary histology in relatiorr to smoking habitsandl
i
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age wereexani
uer
ros
s; a
arrupturer
ne
y
ac
et a
(8)
veo
~,.i. r thickening of the wallsofslmlll arteries, and thic.keningof the walls
of the pulmonarti-aiteriol'es were found tobehighly relatedl to thee
smoking habits of'the 1,340 male subjects examined. The 91 pipe and
cigar smokers over the age of 60 were found to have somewhat more
alveolar rupture thani the men of the same age distribution who ~ never
smoked regularly. However, pipe and cigar.srnokersas a, groulihael
far less rupture than cigarette smokers. The same relations as described
above were found for fibrosis, thickening of the walls of the arterioles
if and small arteries,~ and pa,dl~ik~e attachments to the alveolar septums.
~e Tobacco~ snioke, has~ beeii shown experimentally ~ to Ilave~ a ci'liostatic
e~ffect on t'he~ respirat'oryy epithelium. Tlle~ interval between pulls, the~
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amount of volatile and particulate compounds in the smoke, andi the
exposure volume have been shown to infl'uence the toxic effect of'
tobacco smoke. Dalhamn andl Rylander (2Z ) exposed the upper trachea
of anesthetized cats to the smoke of' cigarettes and cigars, observing
the effect on ciliary activity through an incident-light microscope.
A chemicall analysis of the gas and particulate phases revealedl that
the cigar smoke was more alkaline and,, in general, contained higher
concentrations of isoprene, aeetone, acetonitrile, toluene, and totall
partiiculatematter comparedl tocigarettiesmoke. Tiheaverage number
of's puffs required to arrest ciliary activity was found to be 73' for the
cigarette smoke and 1114 for the cig ar smoke. The difference is statisti
cally. significant (P C0.01). Of the two smokes,,the smoke 'with the
highest concentration ofI volztilecompounds was found to be! t ~eleast
ciliostatic. This suggests that the degree of ciliotoxicity ofi a, smoke is
not necessarily correlated to the level of'one or several of the substances
found in the smoke.
Passey, et al. (70,71;, 7'M') studied the effect of smoke from flue-cured
cigarette tobacco cigarettes and air-cured cigar tobacco cigarettes on
the respiratory system of rats: In two separate but similar experi-ments, a total of 48 animals were
expo d to. E:nglish cigarette tobacco
smoke, IBwereexposed to air-cured cigar tobacco~ smoke, and 12~ were
exposed toan air-cured B'unley.tobacco smoke. The rats in groups were
exposed to the specific smoke in a snmoke-fillled cabi'net,, Animals ex-
posed tolhe smokefromair-cured tlobaccosremained liealthythrough-
out the experiments, even at high levels of smoke exposure. The three
deathsthat, occurred within, this group were from nonrespiratory
causes.Isr kiothiex.periments;the rats exposed t~ocigarettetobacco smoke
began todie.rithin 1 or 2 months, and ineach.experiinentmostoftheani'mals died within a,week or two
of the first deaths. At autopsythey rats exposed to, flkte-cured tobacco smoke on, gross examination
were
found tohav.egreatly enlarged lhingsy t'hetrachea wasoft~en full of
mucus,and there was evidence of pneumonia. On microscopic examina,
tion it, was found thatt the trachea and bronchi contained' purulent
celltdarexudiites, evidence of metapl'astic changes;an absence of cilia,,
and goblet cell hpyerplasia. Typically; the causeof' death wasalobaror bronchopneumonia. The author
concl!uded that, "the smokes of'flue-
cured t;obaccosaremore: dangerous to man and to animals than those
of'air-cured tobaccosi"'
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Unfortunately.; few details were published concerning the method
used to expose the animals to the different types of smoke. The fre-
quency and duration of exposure were not speciffedy and the extent of
actual inhalation of smoke by the different groups of rats was either
not determined or not reported. It is also difficultto determine the
effect of smoke exposure on the frequency andl severity of respiratory
infections when animals are expo5edlto smoke in groups where common
exposure occurs. The rat strain used was not identified, but it was
noted that animals appeared to suffer from an endemic rat bron-
chiectasis. It is not known to what extent epidemics of respiratory
infections occurred among these animals. Because of'these difficulties,
no firm eoncTusion can be drawn concerning the effect of' smoking flkle-
cured or air-cured tobaccos on the incidence of respiratory infections
in~ rat's.
TABLE 33:-Mortdlity ratios for chronic ob'structive pul'mondry dcatli.s
in male cigar dnd pipe smokers. A' summary o`f prospective epidemia
logical studies
c
Type of smoking',
Author, reference Categnrry
Non-
Cigar
Pipo
Total
Cigg- f
smoker only only pipe and'rette only Mixed
cigar
Hammond and COPD total-------- 1.00 1.29 1.77 ----- 2.85 ------
Hbrn (40). Emphysema-------- ---- ----- ----- ----- ------------
Bronchitis---------- ---- ----- ----- ----- ------------
Doll' and Hill, COPD total,-------- ---- ---,-- ----- ----- ------------.
(2E, 2'7). Emphysema-------- ---- ----- ----- ----- ------------
Bronchitis---------- 1'.,00 ----- -----, 4.00 7.00 , 6.67
Best (9) -------- COPD totall-------- ---- ----- ----- ----- ------------
Etnphysema. ------- 1L 00 3. 33 . 75 ----- 5.85 ' ------
Btonchit'is---------- 1L 00 3. 57, 2. 11 ----- U 42
Hammond (3b')-- COPD' total-------- ---- ----- ----- ----- ------------
Emphysema,-------- 1.00 ----- -,---,- 1L 37 1 6: 55 -----_
Bronchitis---------- ---- ----- ----- -----
1
------------
Kahn (60)------ COPD' total-------- L 00 . 79 2'. 36 .99 99 10.08 08 -----_
Emphysema---_---- 1. 00 11. 24 2. 13 1. 311 14 17 ------.
Bronchitis. --------- 1.00 1,.,17 1.28 1.17 4.49 ---,-_-,
I Only mortality ratios for ages 55 to 64 are presented.
495'-628 0-73-16
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TnBL>r 3!4.-P~revalenae of respiratory symptoms ¢ndillness by type of
smoking
Percent prevalence
Author, reference Number and' type oi' Illnesss
population 1+1an. Total Ciga
smoker pipe and, rette 1Wfiied
cigar only
Boake (10)___ Parents of 59 Cough____________ 32' 32' 48: ______.
families. Sputum 24 15 20' ______
production.
Chest il'lness______ 5 4 5______
Edwards, et 1,737 male Chronic bronchiti& , 17 119' 31 14
al. (38). outpatients.
Ashford, et 4,014 male Bronchitis________ 10 1 35 211 37
al. (4). workers in 3 Pneumoconiosis____ 11 t 34 14 2'
Scottish
collieries.,
Bower (11')__- 95 male bank Cough------------ 0'' 0: 29' ______
employees: Sputum 8 15 33 ______
production.
Wheeze----------- 8' 31 33 ______
Chesti illness------ 15 54 40, ---__-
(California).
Chest illness 7 6 11 ______
(New York).
Chest illness 91 10 12'
(California).
lInfllienza 28' 24 31 __ _ _ _ _
California. York).
patients in Influenza (New 11 21 24 -
andl 315 male (C'alifornia)..
Wynder, etal. 315 male paL Cough (New 14 33 56 51
(114)L tients in York).
New York Cough 22 30 67 66I
Densen, et al. 5,287 male Persistent cough_ _ 7 111 25 -_____
(24). postal and Persistent 1'1 16 26, ______,
7;213'male sputumm
transit production.
workers in Dyspnea.--------- 16' 19, 26' ______
Nlew York Wheeze----------- 14' 21 32'------
City. Chest illness______ 13' 16 18 -_____
Cederlof, et 4,379twinpairs; Cough----------- 4 : 7 17
al ('18). all i.ilS! Ptolonged cough_-_ 2: 4 11 -__,-__
veterans. Bronchitis____-___ 2 3 10 ______
Rimington 411,729 male Chronic bronchitis_ 5.
(76), volunteers:
220
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TABLE 34.-Preralence of respiratory symptoms and il'lness by type of'
smoking-Continued
A
th
f
nd t
f'
b
N
IDn Percent prevalence
r or, re
erence
u tun
er, a
ype o
population ess
Non- Total
smoker pipe and
cigar
Ctgs-
rette Mized'd
onlp.
Comstock, et 670 male tele- Persistent cough_ _ 10 16 41 ______
aii (1'9). phone Persistent 13 20 42' ______
emplbyees~. sputum.
Dyspnea_________
33
39
44'-_____
Chest illness in 14! 18 20 ______
Lef coe and!
310 ma.1e phy- past 3 years.
Chronic respirar
9
18
44 ______
Wonnacott
(69). sicians in
London,, tory disease.
Chronickironchitis-
1
12
34 -_____
Ontario: Obstructive hung 1 3 4______
disease.
Asthma----------
7'
3
6 ------
Rhonchi'---------- 0 3' 9'--_-_,_
I 'Figures for pipe only!:.
TnBLE 35:-Pulrnondry function a,ulues for cigar and pipe smokers ass
comparedto nonsmokers
Type of'smoking,
Author, reference Number and type
of'population Function
Pdon.
smoker
Total pipe
and cigar
Cigarette
only
Mixed
Ashford, et 4,014 male FEVi.ol _,--___, 3. 39 1 2. 59 3.14 2.62
-
I all (J+),
ol'demith, workers in~
3 Scottish
collieries.,
3,311 active
uffmeter----
13.63
99.26 26
03.44
_-_ __
etall (37). or retired FEVI.o------- 2:99 2.80 2:91 ____,__
longshore- TVC--------- 3. 87 3.68 3.88 ! _--_,__
Comstoek,, men.
670 male
FEVio-------
3. 12'
3.26 ',
2.82
____,
et al. (19).
Lefcoe and! telephone
employees.
310 male
FEVI,o-------
3.39
3'. 17
3.11
_-__-_
i;
Wonnacott physicians MM'F~R liters 4.09 4! 17 3.64 -__-__ ~;
F- (69). in London, per second.
Ontario.
/' I Figures for pipe only,
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GASDROI'NTESTIN A:L DISORDERS
Cigarette smokers have an increasedl prevalence ofpept'ic ulcer
d'iseaseandl agreater' peptic ulcer mortality rat'iothan is: . found! in~
nonsmokers. These relationships are: stronger for gastric ulcer than.
for duodenal ulcer.Cigarett.e smoking appears to reducee the effective-
ness of standardl peptic ulcer treatment regimens and slows therate
of' ulicer healing. Cigar and pipe smokers experience higher deathh
rates from peptic ulcer disease than nonsmokers. These rates are higher
for gastric ulcers than for dluodlenal ulcers butl are some«-hat, less than
those: rates experienced by cigarette' smokers. Table 31 presents the
mortality ratios f'or'ulcer disease'in.cigar and pipe smokers as reported
inthe~prospectiue epidemiol'og ic'al studies.Retrospectiveorcross-sectionall studies by T>rowell
(95), Allibonea'nd Flint (2),, Doll, et al. (29), and Ed.rards, et al. (33) containn
data on ulcer di'seasein pipesmokersaswelD as:cigarette smokers: hToassociation was found between
pipe smoking and ulcer disease in these
investi~gations.,
TABLE 36. 1Y2artality ratios for peptic ulcer disease in male cigar and'
pipe smohers: Summary, of prospectiue studies
Type~e of'smoking.
Aluthor~ reference Illness
Non- Cigar
smoker only'
Pipe
only Total
pipe
and
cigar C1ga-
rette
only
Miaedl
Hammond and Duodenal ulcer------ 1. 00 0. 25
H'
(
0 1.67 ------ 2:16 _-____
orn
4
).
Doll and Hill Gastric ulcer-------- 1.00 ' ------ ----- 4.00 T. 00 5. 30
('26; 27).
Hammond (38)-- Gastriculcer-------- 1.00 ----- ----- 2.04 2.95 ___,---
Duodenal ulcer------ 1.00 ' ------ ----- .92 2.86 -_-,-_-
Kahn (60)------ Gastriculcer-------- - 1.,00: 2,' 90: 2. 84 2. 48, 4.13 _-___-
Duodcnal ulcer------ 1. 00' 1. 58 1. 59' 1. 39 2.98 -_-,-__.
lLittle Cilgars
In the, past year, several new brands of' littlle cigars(weighing, 3
pounds or less per 1,000) have appeared on the nationall market. These
eigarette-siaed products, are manufactured, packaged, advert'i'sed, and
sold in a manner similar to cigarettes. Little cigars enjoy several legal
advantages ouercigarettes ~: ~ They have aceess : to ~ tellevision ad'vertising';
they are taxed by the Federal Government andby most Statesat much
lower ratesthancigarettesresulting in a significant price advantage;
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and they do not carry the warning label required on cigarette pack-
ages and in cigarette advertising. A market appears to be developing
for these products, as there has recent'ly been a sharp increase in the
shipment ofl little cigars destined' fordomestic consumption (table 37).
It is important to estimate the potential public health impact of'
these little cigars. An adequate epidemiological evalaation~ of the ef-
fect of little cigar smoking on health could take 10 or 15~ years and is
probably an impractical consideration; however, a review of the epide-
miological; autopsy, and experimental data concerning the health~ con-
seqtzences of cigarette; pipe, and cigar smoking summarizedl in this and
previous reports is helpful' in considering the potential impact onn
health of smoking little cigars. An amalysisof' the chemical constit-uents suggests that both
cigarettes and cigars contain similar com-
pounds in similar concentrations. Two exceptions are redhicing sugars;
which are not found in quantity in the fermented tobaccos commonly
usedl in cigars, and the pH1 of'the inhalpd~ smoke. The pH of the smoke
from U.S. commercial' cigarettes is below 6.2 from the first to the last
puff; whereas the smoke f'rom, thelastRaif of'a cigar may reach as high
as pH 8 to 9. With increasing pH, nicotine is increasingly present in
the smoke as the free base. Skin painting experiments in mice indicate
that tumor yields with cigar or pipe "tars" are nearly identical with
those obtained witheigarettes "tars~''. In addition,, the epidemiologilcall
data suggest that depth of' inhalation probably accounts for the fact
that cig<lrettesaresomuch more:harmfnl than cigars and pipesi'n con-
tributing to the development of lung cancer, coronary heart disease
and nonneoplastic respiratory disease. For, such, diseases as cancer of
the orallcavity, larynx, andlesophagus, «here smoke from cigars, pipes,
and cigarettes is available to the target organ at comparable levels, the
mortality ratios are very similar for all three forms of tobacco use.
Severali factors, including "tar,"nscotine; andl the pH of the smoke,,
probably operateto influence inhalation patterns of' smokers. The
relative contribution of individual factors to the inhalability of a
tobacco product has not been determined.
Smoking those brands of little cigars which can be inhaled by a
significant portion of the population in a manner similar to the pres-
ent use of cigarettes would probably result in an increased risk of de-
veloping, those pulmonary and cardiovascuIar diseases which havee
been associated with cigarette smoking. On the other handi,, smoking
those little cigars which are used like most large cigars whereby the
smoke is rarely inhaled «ouldl probably result in lower rates of' those
pulm.onary andl cardiovascular diseases than would be found among
cigarette smokers.
Only a limited analysis is available comparing the chemical' com-
pounds found in little cigars, cigarettes, and large cigars. The FTC
ana~lyzed thetair and nicotine content of all the little cigars (34) and
.
cigarettes (97) currently available on the market. Little cigars have
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generally a hig)ier~~ "'tar"' and nicotine levell than~ cigarettes, although~
considerable overlap resul'tls in some little cigar brands having, "tlar"'
and nicotine llevels comparable to those of some brands of cigarettes
(figs:~ 4 and 5)~. Hoffinann andi Wynder (I4) ' recently~ compared th~~ree~~
brands of little cigars with an unfiltered cigaret.te, a filteredl ci'garette,
and a, large cigar. They measured' a number of'smoke constituents, in-
cluding: "tar,'7 nicotine, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, reducing
sugars, hydrogen cyanide, acetaldehyde, acrolein; pyridines, phenols,,
benz(a)anthracene~,-and benzo(a)'pyrene (table 32). Cigarette A was
the Kentucky reference cigarette, cigarette Bwas a popular brand of'
filter cigarette. Cigar A was an 85' mm. little cigar, cigar B was an.
85 mm. little cigar, cigar C was a 95 mm~ small cigar, and cigar D was~
a 112 mm. popular brand of' medium sized cigar.
The~ srnoke~ pH~ was analyzed pu~~fE~ by puff~ (tabl!e~ 39). Cigaret'tle~~
smoke was found to be acidiie (',pI-I less than 7) for the entire cigarette.
The~ smoke from little~ cigarsbecam~e~ alkaline~ only ~ in~ the last~ puff or
two, whereas about the, last 40 percent of'thepuffs from the larger
cigan~were alkaline. Although the~pHl~of the~tlot~all condensate obtai~ned'
from~ cigarettes~ is usually' ~ acidic and the totall cond'ensate~ obtained
from cigars is usually alkaline, the above data indicate that smoke
pH of tobacco prodkzcts changes during the combustion process. Sinoke
from large cigars may be acidic dh'zring the first portion of the smoke
and not become~a~lkaline untillthe lastha~lf~of'tili~e~cigar~is: smokedBrunnemann and Hoffmann (15),
using the same techniques de-
scribed above, examined the effect of'~ 60 leaf' constituents on smoke pH..
For~severallvarieties~of cigarette~tobaccothey~~ found a high correlationn
between~ the,total aklaloid and n~~itrogen content a~nd smoke ~ pH. Stalk~~k
position~~ also~ affected smoke ~ pH. 'Il'obaceo~ leaves, near tlte~ top~ of' tlie~
plant, which contalin high levels of tar and nicotine, y~ielded a sm~oke~
with a muchihigher~pHf than leav.es~ lo..-err on the~ plant. At pr:esent~ it is~~
not~ known to what extent t~hese~ factors~~ i'nfluence~ the~ p1-lf of the~ smoke
of~tobaccos~com~monl'y~used in cigars~or how these kinds of pH~ch~anges
intiuence~the~ inhalability of tobacco smoke:.
The~ inhalation of'sm~oke, howeverappears to be tlte~~ most i~mportantlt
factor~ d~etermining~ the, impact a cigar will have on overalll health.
Those~ physi~call and chemical charact'~eristics~~ of a tobacco~ product
which most influence~ inhalatlion, of tobacco smoke have~ not been
accurately~ determined. Nevertheless, it appears likely that the smoke~
of'sorne brands of'cigars mayy be.compatible with inhalation by a sig-
nificant: portion of the smoking~ population,~ since~:~~ (a~)~ Little~ cigars~~
have tar and nicotine levels which. in some brands, are similar to the
l~evels!~ found in cigaretlt:es,~ and (b' ) the ~ p~H'i . of the~ smoke~~ of~ some~ little~~
cigar brands is acidic for the major portion of the little cigar and
becomes alkaline only in tlhe last puff or tv-o:~
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It is reasonable to conclude that smoking little cigars may result in
health effects similar to those associated with smoking cigarettes if
little cigars are smoked in amounts and with patterns of inhalationn
similar t.o those used, by cigarette smokers, fmr the reasons cited above,
and''theseadditiionallreasons~: (a)~Int'hoselittleciga.rs for«-hich pre-liminary data are
available,, the concentrations of carbon monoxide,
hydrogen, cyanide, acetaldeltyde; acrolein,,pyridine, phenoland poly-
cyclic hydrocarbon levels are comparable to those found in cigarettes;
(b) cigarette smokers wH.o switch to cigars appear to be more likely
to inhale cigar smoke than cigar smokers who have always smoked
cigars (14'); and (c) cigarette smokers who switch to little cigars mayy
be inclined to use them as they did cigarettes because: of the physical
similarities between the: Tittle ciga:rsand' cigarettes,, includsng, their
size and shape;, the number in a package, the burning rate, and the
tio'ne it takes to smoke them.
Figure 4!-Pereent distribution of, 130 brands of oigarettes andl25 brand5 of little cigars by
"tar" content.
50
45
1 arettes
Little Ci ar
40
35E
30
115
10'
0 , L11L~R
Mg tar" 0 0 0 16.0 8.01 32.0 32:A 0 1 810. 4.0
Cigarettes 0-4! 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30~34 35-39 40+44! 45-49
Little Cigars 3.1 3'.1' 10.0 46.2 23:1 10.0 319 0.8' 0 01
SOURCE: U.S;.Department,of, Health, Educaition, and'.Welfare (97)and.Federal Trade.Commission (34).
225'.

Figure 5.-Percent distribution of 130'brands of:cigarettes and 25 brands of little
cigars by nicotine content.
50
YI VI
Cigarettes~
Little cigans
F
a iw i v
ry
~ d ~ ~ ~ ~
p~ 0 N 1[l h O N Ia7' n O' N ~1
O~ ©~ Cjl .+ ~ '. .-r a N~ N~i
lei ~i c+7, CT, 0 Ct Q!' QD M
te~e Cm ai st cri M v N Ln
m
p o
0 O: N~. Q0~~. N
~
CG`
~~.
Wv
SOURCE: U.S. Departmenti of' Health, Education, and Welfare (97) and Federall T.ade Com-
mission i(34).
226

TAB1,E 37.-Shipment of' small and large cigars destined' for domestic
consumption (1970, 1'971, 1972).
Year
1970 1971 1972
Small cigars
January---------------- 58; 328; 5'20 85, 753, 780' 123, 477, 550
February--------------- 63, 431, 580 72, 092; 205 179i 817,, 839.
March----------------- 85; 881, 860 46, 542, 800' 198; 165, 593.
April' ------------------- 101, 613, 500 59,,059, 920, 125; 335, 740
May------------------- 81, 093, 180 93,,237, 473 159;,334, 56.5
June------------------- 82, 471120' 94, 560, 140, 180; 582; 243.
Subtbtal---------- 472, 819; 760 451, 246, 318 966;,713, 530
Ju1l-------------------- 62, 143, 140' 70, 332,' 500 127; 713, 320
August----------------- --, 68, 220, 365 127, 709; 310 670, 936, 869
September-------------- 79, 101,045 95; 027, 340 422, 534, 705
October---------------- 90; 752,880 109, 567, 900 708, 116; 830,
November-------------- 64; 290, 600 106, 666, 107 5514 326, 888
December-------------- 63,806,010 123, 809, 553' 485, 587, 014!
Subtotal'---------- 4'28, 314, 040 633, 112,,710
2, 966, 215,, 626
Yearly total------- 90!1, 133, 800 1, 084, 359, 028 3, 932, 929;,1i56
Large cigars
January ,------ -------
February -------------
ll^larch'- ----------------
April'-------------------
h'Iay-------------------
June-------------------
581, 742;,001 57,3; 039, 120 534, 565, 488
595, 249;,522 586,810,844 562; 414, 577
629, 977, 375 665,, 998, 099 654, 827, 796
652, 800, 2001 655, 850, 213 554, 242, 048
748, 040796 670, 064, 933 719;,489; 529
644, 539,,03'i 692,436,529 578, 501, 068
Subtotal---------- 3, 852, 348,,925' 3, 844,,199, 738 3, 604, 040,,506
July------------------- 647, 397, 547 619, 838, 386 520, 873, 339
Augusti----------------- 673,,082, 971' 662,970,148 ,' 682, 333', 630
September-------------- 721,561,449 680, 476, 4'18' 594, 843, 957
October---------------- 797, 601, 253 679, 420;,968' 693, 150, 668'
November-------------- 696,526,464 742, 948,,802' 650,746,540
December-------------- 596, 244', 159 516, 879, 415 437, 429996'
Subtotal,---------- 4, 132, 413, 843 3;,902, 534, 137 3;,579, 356130
Yearlytotal------ _ 8,,084, 762, 7687, 746, 733,,875711183, 396636
Sdurce: II.S. Department of the Treasury, (101).
227

TABLE 38. -Selected' compounds in' mainstream smoke
Smoke eompound
"Tar"; milligram per cigarette_ __
Nicotine, milligram per cigarette_
Carhon: monoxide, volume per-
CarMon dioxide, volume percentL_
Reducing sugars, percent ofl
tobacco weight______________
Hiydrogen, cyanide;, microgram
per cigarette_ _ _-----_-__-__ _
Acetaldehydo, microgram per
cigarette--------------------
Acrolein, microgram, per cigar-
etlte------------------------
Tot'al' pyridines, micrograms per,
cigarette--------------------
Phenolj microgram per cigarette__
Benz(a) anthracene, nanogramn
per: cigarette_ _-_-______-____
Benzo(a)pyrene, nanogram per
cigarette--------------------
Cigarette A Cigarette B Little Little Small
(nonfilter) (fllter) clgar A cigar B cigar C
36. 1 20! 3 17'., 4 31. 8 40. &
2.7 L 4 . 6 118 ' 3. 1
4. 6 4. 5 5. 3' 11. 1 7.7
9.4 9~ 6 8. 5 1112 ' 12.7
9:3 7:9 1l5 2.9 17,
536.0 ' 361.0 381.0 697.0 1!, 029: 0
770.01 774.0 630. 0 1, 238! 0 1,150.0
1105.0 71. 0 4!1L 0 54.0 66. 0:
82'.8 27:3 58.0 85:3 80:3'
124.2' 33.0 35:1 63:4 9411
74. 0 31.0 34. 0 25.0 39.0.
47.0 20.0 18: 0 22.0 30., 0
Source: HutImann,, D., WynderE. L. (44).
TABLE 39.-The:pZd of'the mainstream smoke of setected'tobacco products
(Numbers in parentheses indicate number of', last puSa'
Average pHi Cigarette A
(nonfilter)' Cigarette B
(filter) Little
cigar A: Little
cigar B Small
cigar C. Cigar D
3d puff_,____ 6. 19 6. 15 6.44 6.55 6:53' 6:4'7
5th puff---- 6. 14' 6. 12' 6.34 6: 46 6.49
7th puff'---- 6~: 09 6.01 7.03 6, 51 6.56 '.
9th, puff---- 6~: 02 5.83 ' -------- 6' 98' 6.59 . 6.27
13th puff'--- -------- -------- -------- 6.39
18th puff--- -------- -------- -------- 6. 41
23dlpuff---- -------- -------- -------- 6.81
28th puff--- -------- -------- -------- 7:22
33d puff_--_ 7 53
323th puff--- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- 7.78:
Lagtpuff_,__ 5.96(11!) 5:76(1'0) 7.73 (8) 7:25'(1'0'), 7. 11(11) 7:96(43)
Source: Hoffmann, D., WynderE. L. (44)',
228

Conclusions
Pipe and' cigar smokers in the United States as a group: experience
overall mortality rates thatare slightly higher than those of'nonsmok-
ers, but these rat'es are substantially lower than those of cigarette
smokers: This: appears to be due to the fact that the total exposure to
smoke that a pipe or cigar smoker receives f'rom! these prodncts is
relatively low. The typical cigar smoker smokes fewer than five cigars
a day and the typicall pipe smoker smokes less than 20~pipefuls, a day.
Most pipe and cigar smokers report that they do not inhale thesmoke.
Those~ who do inhale, inhale infrequently and only slightly. As aa
result, the harmful effects of' cigar and pipe smoking appear to be
largel'ylimited to increased death rates from cancer at those si'teswhi&
are exposed to the smoke of these products. Mortality rates from
cancer of t!heora~l cavity, intrinsic~andc extrinsic larynx, pharynh,and
esophag us are approximately equal in users of cigars, pipes, and ciga-
rettes. Inhalation~ is evidently not necessary to expose tliese sites to
tobacco smoke. Althougli these are serious forms of cancer, they account
for only about 5 percent of the cancer mortality atnongmen.Coronaryg heart disease,, lung
cancer,,emphysema, chronic: bronehitis,,
cancer of the pancreas, and cancer of the urinary bladder are diseases
which are clearly~~associa.ted! with cigarettesmoking,but'fior cigar and
pipe smokers death rates from these diseases are not greatly elevatedd
above the rates of'nonsmokers. These diseases seem to ~ depend on mod-
erate to deep inhalation to bring the smoke into direct contact with
the issue at risk or to allow certain constituents, such as carbon mon-
oxide; to be systematically absorbed through the lungs ortoaffsct theternporal patterns of
absorption of other constituents such asnicotinethat can be absorbed eitherr through the oral mueosa
or through the
luna . Evidence from countries where smokers t'end to consume more
cigars and inhale them to a greater degree than in the L; nited States
indicates thatt rates of lung cancer become elevatedl to lev,els approach-
ing those of'cigarette smokers.
AvailWe data on the chemical constituents of cigar, pipe, and''
cigarette smoke suggest that there are marked similarities in the com,
position of these products. Pipe andl cigar smoke, however, tends to
be more alkaline than cigarette smoke, and fermented tobaccos com-
monly used in pipes and cigars contain lpss reducing sugars than the
rapidlyy dried varieties commonly used in cigarettes.
Experimental evidence suggests that little difference exists between~
the tumorigenic activities of' tars obtained from cigar or cigarette
229
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tobaccos. Malignant ski6 tumol:s appear somewhat more rapidly andd
in larger numbers in animals whose skin has been painted with cigar
tars than in those'animals painted with cigarette tars:
One must conclude that some risk exists from smoking cigars and
pipes as they are currently used iii the' United States, but for most
d'iseasesthis is small' compared to the risk of smoking cigarettes as they
are commonly used. Nevertheless, changes in patterns of''usage that
wouldbring, about increased exposure either through~ inerease& indi-
vidual use of cigars and pipes or increased inhal4ation of pipe andcigar
smoke have' the potential of producing risks not unlike those now
incurred byeigarette smokers. iV'Iecllanical or, chemicalmodificationsl of pipe tobacco and cigars
that «oul'd' result in a smoke more eompat-
ible' with inhalation couldl llav.ethi'seffeet.
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CHAPTER 7
Exercise! Performance
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Contents
Introd!uction-------------------------------------------- Page
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Studies of Smokers-------------------------------------- 24!1.
Studies Comparing Smokers to Nonsmokers:
Ath,letic P'erformance---------------------------------
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Tread'mill Performance -------------------------------- 245
Performance in Other Tests of Fitness-------------------
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Biomechanisms----------------------------------------- 24'5246'1
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Although it has long been held by athletes andl coaches that cigarette
smoking, is associated with "shortness of wind"' and impaired perform-
ance, until recently there has been lit't1E scientific evidence W support
this view. In the past few years, a variety of studies have appeared
dealing with~ the effect of cigarette smoking on the response of' man
to exercise. TI he following is a review of these studies.t1ge; sex, training,, health, weight, and
other factors are known to
infiuence exercise performance. Because rnostof the investigations
were carried, out in healthy,, young male volunteers, the groups were
quite comparable with regard to age, sex, andl health; however, weight,,
training,, and other factors were often inadequately controlled.
Furthermore, problems in study: design and statistical analysis limit
the value of several of'these studies.1Vlany forrns of exercise were performed' in t'hese
experiments, in-
cluding : pedaling ai bicycle ergometer, running on a treadmill, running
on a track,, swimming, step climbing, gripping a hand dynamometer,
and doing several different exercise activities as part of a battery of
tests; Small to maximum amounts of' work were carriedl out in the
various studies revewed.
Studies of Smokers
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Most of the studies of habitual! cigarette smokers followed a similar
format with respect to smoking: (a) The subject's refrained f'rom,
smoking, for a few hours prior to testing, and (b) two test runs were
performed', one without smoking, and one in which smoking imme-
diately preceded; the exercise or was incorporated with, the exercise
protocol.
Several investigators (1,,15, 28) studied the effect of smoking on,
maximum grip strength. W,ilTgoose (28) reported a greater mean per-
cent recovery of grip strength after the nonsmoking trial than after
the smoking trial. Kay and Karpovich (15) and'i Anderson and Brown
(1) all followed a protocol similar to that of Willgooseexcept thatt
theyrandomiaed the smoking, and nonsmoking trials, andsubstitutied
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ai "placebo" cigarette for the nonsmoking triaL In neither of these
studies were statistically significant diff'erences observed between the
grip scores for the smoking and nonsmoking trials.
Reeves and Morehouse (24) administered ai battery of tests to 15
collegesstudents.Thetest~swere:! A tapping t.est~, a strength, testl, a
jumping test,and t'~heshortforrnof theHa~rvard steptest., Npstatis~-
ticall'ysigni'ficant differences in perfoiniancewerenoted under con-
ditions of smoking or nonsmoking.
A total of 32 college studentls. from intermediate swimming classess
abstained from smoking for 15 minutes2liours, and 12 hours in a study
conducted by Pleasants, et al. (23). Following the abstinence, they
swain distances of 100 and 200 yards. Althouglx act~ual' swim,mingtiimeswere not published, the
authors reported no statistically significant
differences betaz-een the mean swimming times after the different
periods of' abstinence for either distance.
In 1946, Juurup: and '-NIuido (13) carried out several experiments
in whi'ch three young cigarette smokers exercised on a Krogh's bi'-
cycle ergometer. Smoking was found to increase the pulse rate at
rest as well as during exercise. Although the effect was less con-
sistent than on the heart rateT smoking was also associated with
elevatedd blood pressure. Smoking had no effect on oxygen consump-
tion. Henry and! Fitzhenry (12), in 1949, using the bicycle ergometer,
also found that smoking exerted no effect on, oxygen consumption.
In the same year,K~arpoviclii and Hale (14) studied bicy.cleergometerperformance in eight young men.
In all subjects, the average riding
time was better in, nonsmoking tests than, in smoking testei, how-
ever, the results were statistically significant for only three of' thee
eight subjects.
Kerrigan, et al. (16), more recently measured direct arterial blood
pressure, heart rat'e; and cardiac output in 25 habitual smokers at
rest and after exercise. Smoking two cigarettes produced statistically
significant (P<0.01) increases in cardiac index, heart rate; and arter-
ial mean pressure compared to the immediately preceding controll
period. Exercise after smoking resulted in~ an increase in cardiac in~
dex over either t'heresting, period, or the exercise peri'od, which fol-
lbwed abstinence; the resultant cardiac index appeared to be approxi'-
mat'ely the sum of the exercise and smoking, effects.. Exercise tests
preceded by smoking, were also associated wtih sigi7ificantly higher
(P<0:01) and more prolonged elevations of'bloodpressurethanthosenot preceded by smoking:.
In the study by Goldbarg; et al. (,1'1)of nine habitual smokersper,formingsubmaximal exercise on a
bicycle ergometer;car.diovas-
cularresponses were measured via pulmonary and subclavian artery
catheters. At rest, after smoking, the mean cardiac indlex and mean
heart rate increased.D'urialg successively increa6ing levels of exercise,
thehcart rate was ;reater and stroke indexl,o~~-er than values for
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cotnpalrabl'ework before smoking : The, net effect of smoking was to
decrease theeffi;icency of the heart duringexercise in the upright
position by causing ai smaller stroke volume and a higher heart
rat'e.
Rode and Shephard (wS)' investigatedi near maximal treadmill exer-cise performance in six habitual
smokers. A 1-dity abstinence froml
cigarette smoking was associatedl with a, 13- to 70-percent dpcrease in
the oxygen cost of breathing. Abstinence was also followed by a slmv-
ing of the heart rate and a decrease in expiratory minute volume after
exercise.
The study of KrtunhoTz;Iet al. (18) is different from those cited pre-
viouslyy in that bicycle ergometer exercise performance was measured
in habitual smoliers, both before andl after 3' to ~ G weeks~of I abstinence.
Among the 10 subaects who abstained from smoking for 3i «eeks,Ithere
was alstatisticallysignificant (P< 0.05) decrease in heartrate; oxygen
debt, and ratio of oxygen debt t'o: total increase in oxygen uptake pro-
duced by the 5i minutes of exercise..
Using a "double 9-inch progressive step test" Rode and Shephard
(25~) studiedi several hund'redparoticipants of a smoking withdrawall
clinic at the time of entry andl at a 1-year foll'owup. Among, those
R ho returned for the followup andl `sho gave up smoking, absolute
aerobic power increased insigniticalntly, ; however, the relative aerobic
power diminished in both sexes among those who q,uit smoking because
of the veight gain experienced.
Studies Comparing Smokers to Nonsmokers
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Ath;letic Per f'orm-ance
In 1968 Cooper,,et al. (6) evaluated 419 airmen during their initial
6.reeks on active duty in the USAF. A 12-minute rnaximuml running
test .vas performed at least 1 hour after cigarette smoking. The meann
distance covered in 12 minutes by the nonsmokers was sigiiificantly
greater (PG0:05) than that covered by the smokers at the beginning,
tliemiddle, and the end of training. All cat'legoriesofsmokers and non-smokers improved their
performance at the end of training; however,l
the maximum change in performance oflthose smoking 10 to1:30 cig-
arettes per day was significantly(P<a:001) less than that ofnon-smokers..
David (y )~ administered a battery of t'leststo88 milritary.personliel~
aged 19 to 39 y.ears. A 1I-mille run ,%vasinchided in theAesting. and cig.-arette smok~ing«-as
associated .vithasignificant decrease in perform,
ance in this event.
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Some 45~ special forces soldiers were investigated' at sea level and
13,000: feet above sea level by Fine (8). The subjects were randomly:
assigned to a placebo group or an acetazolamide treated group. Cig-
arett'e smoking was positively correlated to decrements in 600-yardd
running performance from sea level to: altitude in both groups.
Pleasants (22)1 studied 106 students from intermediate university
swimming classes.Swimmingtimeswere: measured for 100-and 200-
y"urd distanees, before and after tlrainingand for 800-yard distancesaf'ter training. The: mean
swimming times of nonsmokers were less
than thoseof' srnokers, insix of' seven listed categories,, bu~tt these dif-
ferences were not statistically signiificant..
Bzcycle Ergometer Performancz
Chevalier, et al. (5) investigated'r cardiovascular parameters in 32
young physicians after a stiandard 5-minute ergometer test.Oxy,gen
debt accumulation among smokers was significantly (P'G0.01) greater
than among nonsmokers. The heart rate at rest and 3 minutes after
exercise was significantly (P<0:02') faster in smokers than in non-
smokers.
Using a 5-minute ergometer test, 18' housestaff physici'ans half' of
whom smoked, were investigated by Krumholz, et al. (17). They noted
the foldowi'ng:, Oxygen debt accumulation after exercise was signifi-
cantly (P'G'0.02) greater insmokers thannon-smokersT t'he ratio~of thee
oxygen debt' to totall increased oxygen uptake during exercise was sig-
nificantly (P<0:001) greater in smokers than in nonsmokers" andd
the diffusing capacity at rest and with exercise was significantly
(;P < 0.05 )! decreasedi ini smokers compared to nonsmokers..
Kerrigan, et al. (16) studied cardiovascular parameters in smokers
and nonsmokers at rest, during, and after a 5-minute bicycle ergometer
ride. Cardiac index andd blood pressure values obtained during exercise
performed' immediately after smoking were greater than those found
in nonsmokers performing the same exercise. Similarlyheart rate and
bloodd pressure remained elevated forlbnger periods in thosewlio:
exercised immediately after smoking t~han in nonsmokers performing
the same task.
Aerobic capacity scores were. examined in 60 university stud'ent vol~
unteers~by Peterson and Kelley. (20)1. Subjects worked at submaximal
levels on ai bi~cycleergometer before;during; andl afteratra2ning
program. At all of these interti-.alis, nonsmokers had significantly
(Ia<0.05)i higher mean aerobic capacitiy scores thani smokers. Both
groups increased their aerobic capacity during training but non-
smokers consistently performed better t;hroughout training,
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T readmall Per f orma rure
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In 11960 Blackburn,, et all. (4) carriedl out, severall measurements of' II
cardiovasculiir function after different amounts of treadmill exercise
were performed by 2?33' professional men, 15'J~ university studentsand
414 railroad workers. The differences between the smokers and non-
smokerswereof' smalll magnitude. Basal otygen consumption was '
slightly higher in smokers than in nansnolcers., Also, re sting, pulse
rates were higher in smokers of most groups.
Coope«,et al. (6)~ studied 47outof' 410' airmen with, treadmill test-ing.
Cardiopulmonaryindileesmeasured on the treadmill, including maximum indices, w.ere comparable in
smnkers and nonsmokers ex-
cept for a significant (1''<0:01) reduction itn the maximum minute
vollume auiong, t he sniokers. I
A total of 377 proslaectiveC~aanidfian firemen performed the: I3'alke-
Ware test of «rork capacityy in treaKhuill' studies carried out by Glass-
ford and FIowell (10). The meatt perforniaiice scores of nonsmokers
were significantly (P< 0.01)greatertlian those of smokers.
The effect of vitamin C suphlhnientation ou t'readmill exercise: per-
formance~ was investigated in 40 ~ mal,e volunteers by Bailey, et all (13).
Significant differences in orygen utiliaation andventilatoryf'unction between sm~okeisandl
nonsmokers were noted in only two, ofthe2I
separate ana~lj:ses of variance perforined..
Masinial oxygen intake during treadmill exercise was esamined by
McDbnough, et al., (l9)' in 86heallhy, middls-aged male~ volunteers.Cigarette smoking was one of six
variables which together provided
al mult'i2~le correla~tioni coefficient of 0: i:3'..
Perf'armanee zn Other Test's of Fi,t'n,ess
When physical fitness tests were administered tlo 88 military per-
sonnel by David (7), cigarette smokingwas~ floundl to be associated
with, a significant (P'<0:001)dtcreasein performance:in the dodge
and jump test, andl a significant, (P<0.02) decrease in performance in
the crawling test:
L; singa st'~eptest, a breathholdfing test,and an, ergometer test,,
Franks(',9)examiiied 58' middle-agedi men. Nonsmokeiswere able t.ohokl their breath longer and had
greater vital capacityrresidual after
t he stelr te st than the smolters.
In 19711. «''ysokinski (,2,9)~ studied 200! young Polish soldiers usingLetunnv'stest which
inclnderll301knee-bendincexercises,,a fast run for
:.>0 seconds, and a run for3 minutes. C~igai.ette,snloking Nvas a:ssociatedd
withi a significant (IP'<0.01)i reduction iiu thevi'talcahacity andl a
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marked rise in the pulse rate at rest and after exercise. Intense exer-
cise also caused a greater rise in the systolic blood pressure.in~smokers
than in nonsmokers.
Dliscussvon.
Most of'the studies in habitual cigarette smokers compared exercise
performance in "smoking"' and "nonsmoking" runs after onIyy a f'ew
hours of abstinence. In some studies, smoking ad'versel'y~, affected per-
fbrmance (11, 13,,14,, 16; 18, 06, 28) ,, while in others it did not (1, 12
1523,,2/).Some of these apparently discrepant results are due to dif-
ferences in methodolbgy and in amounts and types of work performed..
l[n, al1 ofl the more recent studies of habitual smokers in which, moderate
to near maximal amounts of work were performed and sophisticatedl
measurements of oxygen transport and cardiopulmonary function
were made, impairment of function during smoking trials was found.
(11;16;18, 26')i.
Thedataof'Krumholz, et al.(18): alsoraisethe question of whether
residual effects ofe cigarette smoking infllaence "nonsmoking"'trials per=
formed after a, fe.vhours ofl abstinence; they found statistiicall'y sig-
nificant decreases in heart rate and oxygen debt produced by exercise
after 3 weeks of cessation.
The work ofl Rode and Shephard (25)' suggests that physical fitness
improves with cessation, but t'1iisimprovement maybenegatedl if the
subject gains a substantial amount of~ weight after~giving up smoking;
Several investigators compared exercise performance or postexer-
cise cardiopulmonary function of smokers to nonsmokers. Although
only minor differences between smokers andl nonsmokers were found
in a few of these studies (3; 4', 22),, in most of them (5, 6; 7, 8,,10, 16;.
17,,20, 29): the performance or function of the nonsmokers was better
than that of the smokers: Both nonsmokers and smokers improved
their performance wi'th~ tiraining, but nonsmokers maintained their ad-
vantage throughouttraining (6, 20).
Biomechanisms
The citedlstudies indicate that cigarette smoking exerts it'sadverse
eff'ect on exercise performance through several mechanisns.. Cigarette
smoking appears to impair cardiac l~erformance during exercise by
increasing, the heart rate and exerting a variable effect on cardiac
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output (.5,11;,13, 1'6;1826, 29). Cigarette smoking is associ'ated' with.
an increased osygen, debt after exercise (5, 18). Also, one study indi-
cated that the oxygen cost of hyperventilation was greater among
smokers than among nonsmokers (26).
Some of these adverse effects of' smoking, on oxidative metabolism
are mediated by the elevated carboxyhemogTobini leuels found in
smokers. COexerts these effectsthroughone~or moreofl the following,
mechanisms: (a) Reduction of the amount of hemoglobin avaiIablie for
oxygen transport, (b): shift of the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation,
curve to the left~ with, consequentiRlterference~ in oxygen release at
the~ tissue level~ (c)~ induction of arterial hypoxemia4 and (d) possible
interference with tliehomeost'a~tic mechanism by which 2,3,DPG
controlsthe affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen (2T);. Because carboxy-
hemoglobin has a half'Iife in the body of'~ at least 3 to:4 hoursits infi!uL
ence may: still be measurable several hours after abstinence from
smoking (27).
AX recent investigation of' maximal muscular exercise d'uring CO in-
toxication in five male volunteers demonstrated reduced maximal Oz
consumption in spite of a much higher heart rate and a relative hyper-
ventilation (21).
Astrand and Rodahl'' (2) commented recently on the adverse effect
of' cigarette smoking on oxygen transport :"Al1 other factors being,
equal~ a reduction in the oxygen-transporting capacity is associated,
with a corresponding reduction in physicali performance capacity dur-
ing, heavyormaximall work ***. Because a regwl'arphysical train-
ing program only increases the maximal oxygen uptake by some 10 to
20 percent, a 5- to 10~percent reduction in maximal aerobic power duee
to smoking may play a si'gnificantrole in many types of'athletic events
and in very heavy work."
Other studies cited in this review document the adverse effect of
smoking on pulmonary diffusing capacity (18) and on pulmonary
function with exercise (6,29).
Summary
il
Clinical st'udies in hea~~lthy,~ young men ha~~~~e~ shown that~ cigarette~
smoking~ i'mpa~iRs~ exercise~ performa~nce,~ especi'all,y~ for~~ mnny' types, of
at~hletic events~and activi'ties inv.ol~ving~ma~xi7m~l work capacity:~ .S'ome~
of'these~ et£ects~~ are mediEitedi by~ redu~cedl oxygen transport and re~ducedi
cardiac and pulmonary function.
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INDEX
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Abortion, spontaneous
effect of maternal smoking, 123,1124
Acenaphthylene
in cigary pipe, and cigarette smoke;,1'78'
Acetaldehyde
as ciliatoxic agent in cigarette smoke, 51
Aerobic capacityy
effect of cessation of,smoking, 243
effect of exercise and smoking, 243,244
Air pollution
and' bronchitis; in smokers vs. nonsmokers,
36,37
effecU on mortality rates from lung cancer,
73
as factor in lung cancer development,
72,73'
imOsakat Japan, 44
prevalence of respiratory diseases:and441
andl smoking in military and civilian air-
craft, 45,
Alcohol consumption
interaction with smoking, andl other, risk
factors in CHD,,10
and smoking, in cancer developments 71
and smoking; _in esophageal, cancer deveL
opments 76,200
and smoking, in laryngeal cancer etiology,,
197
and smokingin,oral cancer etiology, 193
Alveolar macrophages
effect of cigarette smoke, 5'2;53
effect of nitrogen dioxide, 54
Alveolar rupture
in pipe/cigar smokers vs, cigarette smokers
and nonsmokers, 217
Angina pectoris
carbonimonoxide inhalation and17,18
incidence ini pipe and cigar smokers21',5
Anthracene
in cigar, pipeand cigarette smoke, 178
Arterioles
effect of smoking, 22,23
Arteriosclerosis obfiterans
smoking as cause; 1'9;20
Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase
effect of'benzo(a)pyrene in pregnant rats,
119
role in metabolism of chemical carcino-
gens, 82,83
Asbestos
effect on pulmonary, function in smokers
vs. nonsmokers, 411
eff.ect! on radiological findings in smokerss
vs. nonsmokers, 411
effecYon respiratory symptoms in smokers
vs. nonsmokers, 41
andl smoking, effect on mortality rates
from lung cancer, 73'
Athletic performance
running, effectof smoking;,243;24'4
smokers vs. nonsmokers;,24'3',244
swimming, effect of smoking, 244
Autopsy studies
COPD and smoking, 45-48
lung cancer in U.SI veterans, 73,74
Bacterial flora
in smokers vs. nonsmokers with COPD, 54
Benzo(a)pyrene
carcinogenic effect in laboratory animals,
78-80
in cigar, pipe, and cigarette smoke
177;178'
effect on DNA and': RNA, 86 s87,
effects: during pregnancy in laboratory
animals, 117,118'
Bicarbonate
inipancreatic secretions, effect of smoking,
159,1601
Bicycle Ergometer performancee
cardiovascular parameters in smokers vs:
nonsmokers, 242-244
Birth weight
effect of' maternal smoking, 103-114;
119-122
effect' of maternal, smoking before andl
during current pregnancy by cigarette
consumption, 1107-109
effect of maternal smoking during pre-
vious pregnancies,112'-114'
effect of maternal, smoking, mechanism of
action, 119,120:
effect of paternal smoking,,110,1111
effect~ of tobacco smoke, nicotine, or
carbon monoxide in laboratory animals,
11I4'-118'
gesta4ioni duration in smokers vs. non-
smokers, 103-106
and maternal smoking, epidemiologicall
studies, 103-114
timing of influence of smoking, 1120,121
Bladder, cancer
see also Renal,cancer
incidence in smokers vs, nonsmokers,
77',78'
smoking in etiology of, 77,78'
Blood flow
effect of smoking, 19,22;23
Blood lipids
effect of smoking; 11,12.
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effect of smoking and relative weight; in
male Parisian,civil servants; lil
effect ofl smoking in middle-aged patientsi
with anginai pectoris 12
effect of smoking in young hlorwegian,
military recruits, 11
elevated, as risk, factor in CHD, 11
Blood pressure
effect of exercise and smoking,,.
242;244L246'
effect of pipe and cigar smoking, 216
effect of smoking in middle-aged patients:
with angina pectoris 12
Body height
interaction with smoking as factor in
cerebrovaseuiar disease, 19.
Body weightt
interaction with, smoking, as factor in
cerebrovasoular disease19
and smoking, as factors in CHD' incidence
4-6
and smoking, eff'ect:on blood lipids, 11
Bronchial, epitheliumm
histological changes at autopsy and smok-
ing habit, 74
histological changes in cigar, pipe,,cigar-
ette smokers ~s: nonsmokers, 203, 204
209
premalignant changes in smokers, 67
Bronchiolo-alveolar cancer
smoking and71
Bronchitis
and disabilityin smokers vs. nonsmokers,
43
dust exposure as a factor; 44
mortality ratios in male pipe and cigar
smokers, 2117;219'
prevalence in Duisburg, Germany, by age
and cigarette consumption, 39'
prevalence in ex-coal miners andi non-
miners by smoking habit, 42
prevalence ini miners and farmers in Hlun-
gary, by smoking,habit, 42
prevalence in pipe and cigar smokers,
220,22'11
prevalence in smokers vs: nonsmokers in
Bordeaux;, France; 36
prevalence in smokers vs. nonsmokers in,
mountainous or low-lying areas, 36,37
prevalence in smokers vs. nonsmokers in
Osaka, Japan, 44:
prevalence: in smoking vs: nonsmoking
yarn miB!workers, 40
in, smokers vs. nonsmokers, autops,y stu-
dies4'5 46
smoking vs:,coallmining inietiology of, 42
smoking vs., dustl inhalation in etiology of',,
42
Bronchitis, chronic
see Bronchopulmonary diseases, chronicc
obstructive
252
Bronchopulmonary diseases; chronic ob-
structive
see also Emphysema and bronchitis
autopsy studies,,45-18
as cause listed on death certificates vs. at
autopsy, 47'
epidemiologicalI studies36'-45
mortality and morbidity studies36-39
mortality rates in British, citizens by rttigra-
tion patterns,, 36
mortality ratios in, male pipe and cigar
smokers, 21'6,217,219
summary ofl previous findings, 35,36
summary of! recent findings,,55
Byssinosis,
prevalence in, cotton mill employees,,
smokers vs. nonsmokers, 55
prevalence in men by index of severity and
smoking,habits, 440,411
prevalence in smoking va nonsmoking,
cotton milllworkers,,39
smoking,and39-41
Cancer
see also Specific site, e.g;, Lung cancer
mortality rates in alcoholics, 7L
recurrent, primary incidence in smokerss
vs. nonsmokers, 71!,74
summary of previous findings,b7,68
summary of recent findings88
Capillaries
eff.eata of smoking 22.
Carbon monoxide
cardiovascular effect6 experimental stu-
dies;,17-19
effecYt on birthweight and neonatal mortal-
ity in aninsals, 133
effect on cholesterol biosynthesis,,imvitro
18
effect on cholesterol level in aorta in,
rabbits, 18
effect on coronary hemodynamics and,
ventricular, function imdogs, 18
effect, on exercise performance in:smokerss
vs. nonsmokers246,24'7
effect, on maximal, oxygeni eonsumption,.
18
effect, on, platelet stickiness in rabbits 1'8
effect, on reflex vasoconstrictOr responses;.
18,23
effect on vascular resistance and reflex
vasoconstriction22,23
effects during pregnancy in laboratory
animalk,,116411,7
Carboxyhemoglobin levels :
effect on exercise pr,rformance inismokers
vs. nonsmokers246,24T
~
following smoking of non-nicotine ciga-
rettes, 17,18.
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in, neonates of smoicing, mothers, 118;,1!1'S'
Carcinogenesis
cell and tissue culture studies, 84'-86'
effect of:tobacco curing methods; 212
experimental, 78-87'
initiating, and promoting agents in, cigar-
ette smoke,,68
mechanism of action, 78, 80-87
of respiratory tract in laboratory animals:,,
78-80
role of cigarette smoke condensate, W84
Carcinogens
effect on cell transformations, 84-86
effect, on respiratory tract in laboratory
animals78-80
Cardiac index
effect of exercise and' smoking,
24'2-2441
Cardiovascular diseases
see also Coronary heart disease
mortality ratios in male pipe and cigarr
smokers, 215,216
smoking and, 323
summary of previous findings, 3
summary of prospective epidemiological
studies for cigar and pipe smokers, 216'
summary of recent findings, 23
Catecholamine levels
effect of' cigar, pipe, and cigarette smoke
in dogs, 216
Cell and tissue:culture studies
tobacco carcinogenesis and~ 8486
Cell cultures,
malignant transformations induced': by to
bacco tars oncarcino&ens,,84-86
Cellsatypical,
in ex-smokers, smokers,, and nonsmokers
at autopsy, 74
Cerebrovascular disease
interaction of smoking and, other risk
factors, 19
mortality ratios in pipe:and cigar smokers,
215,216
Cessation of smoking
compared benefits in cigarette vs: pipe/
cigar smokers, 172,173
effect on absolute aerobic power243
effect on infant birth weight, 107-109
1124114:
effect on pultnonary surfactant level§, 55'
as preventive measure in ocelusive disease:
21,22
CHDD
Cholesterol levels
effect of carbon, monoxide in rabbits, 18'
effect of smoking and!body weight, 111
effect of smoking aed clinical parameters
iniBritish,business executives, 1,1
inipipe:and cigar smokers215,2'16
Chronic obstructive bronchopultnonary di-
sease
see Bronchopultnonary disease, chronic
obstructive
Cigarettes
definition and processing, 175''
filtered, effecL on respiratory symptoms,
55
modified, effect on respiratory symptoms
and ventilat'ory capacity, 37,38'8
plainivs: filtered, effect on sputumiproduc-
tion37,38
similarities with little eigars, 224,22'5'
Cigarette smoke condensate,
effect on RNA, 86
N-nitrosamines:in, 87,88
role in experimentallcareinogenesis, 80-84
Cigarettes, non-nicotine
effect on carboxyhemoglobin levels; 17,18
Cigars
definition and processing, 175,1'76
Cigars, Gttle
chemical composition of, 224',2'25,2'28
evaluation of potential public health im-
pact, 22'2=228'
shipment for domestic consumption.
1970-1972,222~224,227.
similarity to cigarettes, 224,225
sugar and pH differences withi large cigars
and cigarettes, 222'-224'
tar and nicotzne :content,, 224226',228
Cigar smokers
relative risk in lung, cancer development;
67,68
Cigar, smoking,
effect, on mortality and morbidity com
pared to cigarette smoking, 171-173
in esophageal cancer development4,
197,200-202'
gastrointestinal disorders and, 222,
health consequences of,,179
histoIogical effects on bronchial, epithe-
lium203',204I 209
histological effects on esophagus; 200
histological effects on larynx, 197
inhalation,patterns and184-L89
see Coronary heart'disease
Chest illness in laryngeal cancer development,
197-199'
prevalence in pipe and' cigar smoker:s,.
220,221 in lung cancer development, by amount
smoked, 203-206'
Cholesterol,
effect of carbon monoxide
biosynthesis mortality ratios from cardiovascular~ di-
seases and, 215,216
0
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in vitro
1'8' mortality ratios from COPD: and, 217,219 ~
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mortality ratios from esophageal cancer
and, 197,2W
mortality ratios from laryngeal cancer and,
193,196,1197
mortality ratios from lung, cancer and
203-205
mortality ratios from oral cancer, and
191,193
oral cancer development and, 193-195
overall mortality rates by amount smoked.,
180-182
overall mortality rates fromi cancer and;
189
prevalence in Great Britain, 173,174
prevalence in United States, 173,174
pulmonary histological changes and, 217
Ciliary activity
effect of pipe/cigar smoke vs. cigarette
smoke in cats, 217,218'.
Clinical laboratory tests
effect of aging and smoking,, in, healthy,
male veterans 11
Coal dust
effect on pulmonary function in smokers
vs: nonsmokers, 41-43
effect on respiratory symptoms in smokers
vs. nonsmokers, 41-43
Combustion temperature
effect on tumorigenic activity of pipe and
cigarette tobacco; 210,211
Congenital' malformations
mate,rnal,srnoking and, 136,137
Coronary heart disease
epidemiological studies, 4-11I
experimental studies, 13-19
incidence in European vs. American men,
9
incidence in farmers vs. nonfarmers by
smoking habit,, 7
incidence in Hawaiian men of Japanes,
ancestry, 10
incidence in male bank employees ir
Brussels, Belgium, 10
incidence in men in Yugoslavia, 99
incidence in miners in Sardinia, 10
incidence in pipe and cigar smokers
215,216'
incidence in white males by body weight
and smoking habit, 5
incidence in whites vs. blacks in Evans
County, Georgia, 4,5
in India, 11
interaction ofi smoking with other risk~
factors, 4'-11
mortality rates in Japanese men and wo-
men by cigarette consumption and age av
initiation of habit, 7,8
mortality rates in smoking men in Finland,
99
mortality ratios in pipe and cigar smokers,
215,216
in Nepal 11
in New Zealand;,11
' smoking;, in individuals under 40
y%~ars, 10
and' smoking, in myocardial' ischemic pa-
tients in Iltaly,,10
COPD
see Btonchopulmonary diseases, chronic
obstructive
Cough
effect of asbestos exposure im smokers vs.
nonsmokers, 41'
effect' of coal dust exposure in smokers vs.,
nonsmokers, 41,42
efl'ect, of filtered cigarettes, 55
effect of modifiedi cigarettes38
prevalence in pipe and cigar smokers,.
220',221i
prevalence in, smoking vs: nonsmoking
women in Bordeaux, France,, 36
Cresols
in cigar,,pipe; andlcigarette smoke, 177'
Curing methods
incidence of respiratory infections in rats
and218;219
Cyanide detoxification
in pregnant smokers vs: nonsmokers, 119
7 H-Dibenz (c,g)carbazole
carcinogenic effect' in laboratory animals;
791
Diet,
and smoking, effecton.blood lipids,,12
DNA
binding of polycyclic hydrocarbons to,
86,87
Dust exposure
bronchitis and, 44
as occupational i hazard, 43,44
smoking and, 44
Dynamic compliance
in smokers vs. nonsmokers under 30, 50:
Dyspneaa
prevalence in cigar and pipe smokers,.
220,221
Electrocardiogram
abnormalities, effect of smoking and other
factors, 13
effect of smoking, im middle-aged Dutchi
men; 112'
effect of smoking in young military re-
cruits in Poland, 112.
Einphysema
see also Bronchopulmonary disease,
chronic obstructive
f
2'54

incidence in cigar/pipe smoking coal mi'-
ners vs: cigarette: smokers and non-
smokers, 217
mortality ratios in male pipe and' cigar
smokers, 217,219
prevalence: in males by smoking category,
at, au topsy, 48'
prevalenee in, pipe/cigar and cigarette smo-
kers vs. nonsmakers, autopsy studies,
45,46'
prevalence in smokers vs. nonsmokers, 55
in smokers vs. nonsmokers, autopsy stu-
dies, 454'7
Epidemiological studies
bronchopulmonary diseases and smoking,,
36-455
coronary heart disease and smoking,
4-13,23
lung cancer and smoking, 68-72
peptic ulcer and smoking, 155-157'
Esophageal ~ cancer
alcohol consumption and, smoking in de-
velopment of 200
inhalationpatterns and4,197
mortality ratios for cigar, pipe,, and ciga-
rette smokers vs: nonsmokers, 197,2000
mortality ratios in Japanese male smokers
vs. nonsmokers, 76
relative risk in cigarrs pipe and cigarette
smokers vs. nonsmokers,
197,200-202'
smoking and alcohol consumption in de-
velopment of, 76
summary of retrospective studies,, 201,202
Esophagus
histological changes in cigar, pipe,, ciga-
rette smokers vs, nonsmokers, 200
Exercise performance
on bicycle ergometer, effect of' smoking,
24'2,243'
cardiac index, effect of smoking, 242,243
effect of smoking and smoking,abstinenee;
241,242,246,247'
influencing factors, 2411',246,247'
summary of findings and mechanism of
action, 246,247
on treadmill, effect of smoking, 243,245
Experimental! studies
COPD and,smoking, 48-55
coronary heart disease and smoking, 13-19
effect, of carbon monoxide on pregnantt
animals, 132;13:3'.
pregnancy in laboratory animalseff'ect,of
tobacco smoke, nicotine,, carbon mono-
xide, and polycyelic hydrocarbons;
1i14L118
Ex-smokers
compared mortality rates:for cigarette vs.
pipe/cigar: smokers, 172,173
histologjcal' changes in bronchial epithe-
lium at autopsy, 74
low birth1weig3it, infants of, 112-1I14
mortality rates from lung cancen, 71-72'
prevalence of respiratory, symptoms,,39
pulmonary function, 39
relative risk in lung cancer development,
71-72
survival after treatment for pharyngeal,
laryngeal, or oral cancers, 75
Fatty acid!levels
effect; of eigar,, pipe, and cigarette smoke
in dogs21fi:
effect, of smoking, 12
Fetal mortality
effect of'maternal smoking, 123-135
epidemiological studies in smokers vsnon-
smokers, 126-132
Fibrosi's
in pipe/eigar smokers vs. cigarette smokers
and nonsmokers, 217.
Fitness tests
various, smokers vs. nonsmokers245
Framingham study
interaction ofl smoking and other risk
factors in CHD;,8
Gastric secretion
effect of nicotine in laboratory animals,,
158,159~
effect of smoking in ulber patients;
157,158
isastrointestinal disorders
prevalence in cigarette and pipe/cigar smo-
kers, 222
Gestatiom
and low birth weighY infants, effect of
maternal smoking, 103-106:
Gestatlonal age
effect on perinatal mortality rates in smo+
king, vs, nonsmoking m,others;, 126-132'
Glucose intolerance
as a risk factor in CHD, 8
Grip sttength,
effect of:smoking, 241,242:
H'eart rate
effect of exercise and smoking,
242-246
Histological studies
hrrlg cancer in U.S'~ veterans, 73
Histopathological studies
in laboratory animals49,50
in smokers vs. nonsmokers48,99.
Honolulu Heart Study
interaction of smoking and other risk
factors:in CHD; 8,9
'
255

q
relative risk in pipe/cigar smokers, 67;68:
smoking as cause, 67'
summary of retrospective studies,,206-208'
Maternal-fetaLexchange
polycyclic hydrocarbons and; 119
Maternal smoking
see Smoking, maternal.
3-Methylcholanthrenes effects during pregnancy in laboratory
animals, 117
Morbidity
from chronic:bronchopulmonary diseases,
36-39
IVlortalityy
compared rates for cigarette vs, pipe/cigar
ex-smokers;,172,173
from chronic bronchopulmonary diseases,
36-39
from, COPD, in cigar/pipe smokers vs.
cigarette smokers and nonsmokers
216,217
overall rates for cigar smokers, vs pipee
smokers, 179,180
overall rates: for pipe/cigar smokers and'
dbse-response relationships180-189
overall rates for pipe/cigar smokers vs..
nonsmokers179;180
overall rates from eancer in pipe and cigar
smokers, 189
ratio in pipe and cigar smokers by age and
inhalation, 184',187'
Mortality rates
CHD in Japanese: men and women by
cigarette consumption and age at initia-
tion,of habit, 7,8
Myocardial infarct
incidence in European vs. American men,
99
incidence in men in I'ugpslavia9'
incidence in miners in Sardinia, 10
incidence in pipe and cigar smokers, 2'15'
prevalence in smoking, vs. nonsmoking,
men in Czechoslovakia, 10
and smoking,, in patients in. Leningrad
hospitals, 10
Nicotine
in cigar, pipe, and'cigaretrce smoke17,7
clinical effects on offspring of smoking
motfiers; 14'0,1i41
in duodenal ulcer induction in, cats
158,159
effect on cardiovascular, systemiin dogs, 1'7'
effect on gastric secretion incats, 15$,1591
effect on gastric secretion in rats, 159
effect on heart, blood,flow in dogs, 17
effect on lactation in laboratory animals,
138,139
effect on lactation in smokers vs. non-
smokers;,1'39;140
effect on lipid biosynthesis in aorta in!
dogs 17
effect on microcirculation in atrium in
cats17
effecti on pancreatic secretions in animals,
161,162
effect on pipe/cigar smoke inhalation,
L83;184
effect on rat and mouse fetus, site of
action, 1211
effects during, pregnancy in laboratory
animals, 115,11&
experimentall studies, 16,17
in little cigars compared to:cigarettes andd
cigars, 223-226,228'
in milk:of laboratory anim,als,, 138,139
in milk of'smoking mothers, 139
as potentiator of duodenal, ulcers in ani-
mal's 161-L63
Nicotine levels
iniblood, new assay method, 15,23'
Nicotine secretionn
effect of cigar, pipe,, and cigarette smoke
in dbgs; 216
Nitrogen dioxide
effect on, alveolar wall cells iwguinea pigs,
50
effect on bacterial retention in, hamsters,
541
effect on rat; lung, 49,50
Nitrosamines,
effect, on lactating hamsters, 139
N-Nitrosamines
determination in cigarette and tobacco
smoke condensate, 87,88
Obesity
as a risk factor for CEID, 9
Occlusive disease
smoking and, 21
Occupationn
andl smoking, as factor in, CHD incidence,.
5,7
Occupational diseases
asbestosis, 41
byssinosis; 394'1
coal workers pneumoconiosis, 42
Occupational exposure
pancreatic cancer and77.
andi smoking, bladder cancer andt, 78
Occupational hazards
asbestos exposure, 41,73
coal dust exposure4!1 43
cotton; tlax, and'' hemp, dUst exposure,
39-41
257

dust exposure, 43',44
1007o pure oxygen exposure, 43'
radiation exposure in uranium miners, 72
smoking and~ 39-44
smoking as:additive risk for COPD, 55
Otal,cancer
alcohol, consumption and smoking in etio-
logy of, 193
inhalation patterns and, 19 11
mortality rates in Japanese male smokers
vs: nonsmokers, 74
mortality ratios for pipe, cigar, and cigar-
ette smokers vs. nonsmokers,
191!-193
recurrent, incidence in smokers vs. ex-
smokers, 71,74;75
relative risk ofi development in pipe, cigar,,
and' cigarette smokers vs~ nonsmokers,.
191i,194,195
reverse smoking and, 7,6,
smoking in etiology of', 74L76
summary of retrospective studies, 1194,195
Oxygen debtt
effect of smoking, 246,247'
exercise performance and, 246,247
Pancreatic cancerr
occupational exposure and, 77
smoking,and, 77
Pancreatic secretions,
bicarbonate content, effect of: smoking,
15'9;160
effect of nicotine in animals, 1'61,162effect of smoking,,159,160
Passive smoking,
effect on cardiovascular function inidogs;
14
Peptic ulcer
see Ulcer, peptic
Per?natall mortality
effect of maternal smoking, summary of
findings, 1,34,1135
Peripheral arteriosclerosis
smoking and, 21
Peripheral vascular disease
smoking and,,19!-23'
pH
pipe/cigar smoke inhalation and, 182
of smoke in cigarettes, cigars, and little
cigars; 223',2241,228
Phagocytosis
effect' of cigarette smoke in laboratory
animals, 53,54!
Pharyngealcancer
recurrent,, incidence in smokers vs. ex-
smokers, 74,75
Pharyngeal fungi
smokers vs. nonsmokers in South Africa,
54
Phenols
inicigarpipe; and cigarette smoke, 177
Phenylmethyloxadiazole (PNIO)
protection against adverse effects of cigar,
ette smoke in animals;,49;53
Physical activity
as a factor in coronary heart disease, 4,5
Pipe smokers
relative risk in lung cancer development,,
67.68
Pipe smoking
effect on mortality and morbidity com-
paredlto cigarette smoking; 171-173
in esophageal cancer d0velopment,
197,200-202 gastrointestinalidisorders and, 222
health consequences of, 179'
histological effects on bronchial epithe-
lium, 203',204',209
histological effects on esophagus, 200
histological effects on larynx, 1977
inhalatlonpatternsand, 184F189in laryngeal cancer development,,
197-199
in lung, cancer; development by amount
smokedi, 203-206
mortality ra.ios from cardiovascular di+
seases.and,,21!5,2'16
moitality, ratios from COPD' and21'7;219
mortality ratios from laryngeal cancer and~.
193,196,197,2000
mortality ratios from lung cancer and,.
203-205'
mortality ratios from oral cancer and,
1911,193
oral cancer development and, 1i93'-195
overall mortality rates by'amount'smoked,
180+182'
overall mortality rates from cancer and
189,
prevalence in Great Britain173,174
prevalenee:in United States, 173,174
pulmonary histological changes and, 217
Pipe tobacco
definition and processing, 176,
Plethysmogram
abnormalities;, ini smokers vs. nonsmokers,,
22'
Pneumoconiosiss
in coal miners, smokers vs. nonsmokers,.
42
Pneumothorax, spontaneous
smoking,and37.
Polycyclic hydrocarbons
binding to DNA and RNA, 86,87'
effects during pregnancy in laboratory
animals 117:118'
nraternal-fetalexchange and~ 119
Post-operative complications
in duodenal! ulcer removal, smokers vs.
nonsmokers, 1'57
258'

smokingobe:sity, anesthesia and 39
Preeclampsia
maternal smoking and, 114'2
in, smoking,vs. nonsmoking women, 142
P>:egnancy
effect of maternal smoking, 103'-1422
effect of maternal smokingmechanism ofl
action, 119,120
effect of tobacco smoke, nicotine,, and
carbon: monoxide in laboratory animals,
114'-118'
and previous smoking habits,, effect onn
infan ti bir th: weight, 112-114
timing of intluence of smoking on birth
weight, 120321
Ptematurity
effect of smoking 112.
Pulmonary arterioles
histological effects of pipe/cigar smoking,
vs, cigarette smoking, 217
Pulmonary clearance
effect,of heavy smoking; 52;53
effect of smoking, 55'5
mechanical vs. bactericidal clearance: in
gpinea pigs,,53
mechanismy, in smokers vs. nonsmokers,
52,53
in monozygotic vs. dizygotic twins, 51
particle: deposition in smokers vs. non«
smokers, 53'
Pulmonary diffusing capacity
in smokers vs. nonsmokers in Berlin, New
Hampshire, 50,51.
Pulmonary emphysema
see Emphysema
Pulmonary function
in asymptomatic young men in Romania,
39
in, coal miners, smokers vs. nonsmokers,.
42,4'3'
in, coal miners vs. nonminers, 42
effecti of asbestos, exposure and smoking,
41,
effect, of coal dust exposure and smoking
41-43
effect of lung, hyperinflfttion in coal mi-
ners412,43effect on exercise,penformance in smokers
vs. nonsmokers, 246',247
iniex-smokers, 39
in jet fighter pilots, smokers vs: non-
smokers43
in pipe/cigar smokers vs: nonsmokers,
217,221
pulmonary hypertension and, 43'
in smokers vs. nonsmokers, 55
in smokers vs: nonsmokers in Berlin, New
Hampshire, 50,511
in smokers,vss nonsmokers, under 30 years
of age50
smoking and, 38;39' `
Pulmonary histology
of' pipe/cigar smokers vs. cigarette smokers
and nonsmokers, 217
Pubnonary macrophagess
effea of, smoking55
Pulmonary surfactanti levels
effect of smoking; 55
Pulmonary tissue
histopathological differences in smokers
vs. nonsmokers, 48',49
Pyrene
in cigar, pipe, and' cigaret:te smoke 17 8'
Race
as a factor in coronary heart disease,
4,5,23'
as a fact'or in perinatal,mortality in smok-
ing vs. nonsmoking mothers, 129-132'
as a factor in stillbirth rates, 124,125
Radiation exposure
and smoking; as cause of respiratory can-
cers72'
Radioactive particles
in tobacco leaf.,, tobacco smoke, and smo-
kers' lungs; 72'.
Renal cancer,
mortality ratio in Japanese men and wo-
men,, smokers vs. nonsmokers, 77'
smoking in etiology of77,7,8.
Respiratory symptoms
see alsoCoughy,Sputum product'~ioneffecY of asbestos exposure ini smokers vs.
nonsmokers, 41
prevalence in, Duisburg, Germany by age
and cigarette consumption, 399
prevalence in ex-smokers, 399
prevalence in pipe and cigar smokers,
217,220,221
prevalence in smokers vs. nonsmokers, 55
prevalence in smokers: vs. nonsmokers in
Bordeaux, France, 36
in smokers vs: nonsmokers by amountt
smoked, 37'
Reverse smoking
leukoplakia and; 76
oral,cancars and,,76
RNA
binding ofl polycyclic hydrocarbons to,
86,87
Running
effect of smoking; 243, 244
Sex ratio
effect of maternal smoking, 135,136
Single-breath tests
smokers vs. nonsmokers, 51
259'

a
Smoke, cigar
chemical constituents in, 177=1179
ciliotoxicity,, 218
effect of curing methods,,218',219
effect of pft on inhalation of, 183
tumorigenic activity in laboratory animals,,
210-214
Smokecigarette
chemical constituents in, comparedl to
pipejcigar, smoke, 177,178
effect of curing methods,, 218,219
effect on bacteriall retention in, hamsters,
541
effect' on bronchial' epithelium inidogs, 49
effzct on phagocytosis in laboratory ani-
mais, 53,54
effectonpulmonary clearance, 51-53
effect, on rat and mouse fetus, site of
action, 121
effect, on ventricular fibrillation threshold
in dbgs, 13;14
experimental studies, in dogs, 13,141
reduction of adverse effects in animals by
phenylmethyloxadiazole (P:1fO), 49,53
and sulphur dioxide, effect on glands in,
laboratory animals, 49'
Smokelittle cigar
pH of; compared to cigarette and cigar
smoke, 224,228
Smoke; pipe
chemical constitlrents in177,178'
ciliotoxicity of, 218
effect ofI pH on inhalation of', 183'
tumorigenic activity, in laboratory animals,
210-214
Sinoke, tobacco.
eflfect,onair pollutioniin aircraft, 45
effect on nonsmokers, in aircraft, 45
effect on stillbirth rate in1aboratory ani-
mals, 125
effects during pregnancy in laboratory
animals, 1114,115
pH', ofef fect of leafl constituents224
tumorigenic activity, 210-214
Smoking
effect on blood lipids,,11,112
effect on cardiac lactate metabolismy 13effect on leg,blood mean-flow capacity, 22'1
effect on plasma nicotine levels,,15-17'
effect on precapillary sphineters22
health hazards:of, s,imilarities, of cigarettes
with little cigars224,225
interaction withiother risk factors in CHD,.
4-111
as most important cause of COPD, 35,36'
prevalence in U.S., andl Great Britain,
173,174
Smoking abstinence
effect on exercise performance,
241,242;246,247
260
Smoking, maternal,
as cause of birth of'small-for-dates infants,
1106-111
congenital malformations and, 136,137'
effect on birth~ weight, 103'-114,119-L22
effect on birth weight, summary of find-
ings, 122
effect on gestation durationt,103'-106
effect on lactation, 1!38-1411
effect on neonatal carboxyhemoglobin
levels,,118,119
effect on sex ratio13'5,136.
effects: during pregnancy, 1'03-142'1
effects during pregnancy, mechanism of
action~ 1:19,120
indirect association with~ small-for-dates
int'ants, 110-114
preeclampsialand, 142
selective action on, fetus of certain, womenn
vs. others, 131
spontaneous abortions :and,,123;124
stillbirths and 124,1125
timing of influence on birth weight,
120,121
Smoking,,paternal
effect an infant, birth weight,,111A',1 T li
Sputum prodtrction
effect of asbestos exposure in smokers vs,
nonsmokers, 41
effect of filtered cigarettes,,55
effect of modified cigarettes37,38effect of plain vs. fiiteredlcigarettes, 37,38
in males by amount smoked and'type : of~
cigarette;, 37;38
prevalence in pipe and cigar, smokers,,
220,22~1'
Stillbirths
effect of maternal smoking, 124,125
rates in blacks vs, whites 124,1125
in,smokers vs. nonsmokers, 124',1125.
Sudden death
incidence in pipe and cigar smokers 215
Sulphur dioxide
and! cigarette smoke, effect on glands in
laboratory animals49Swimming
effect of' smoking242,24'4
Tar contenti
effect, on respiratory symptoms and venti-
latory capacity, 38
Tars
in little cigars, compared! to cigarettes and
ci2ars, 223-226,228'.
Thrombosis
smoking andi, 19
Tobacco
flue-cured vs: air-cured, effect on respira-
tory system in animals, 217,2118
OW

Tobacco chewing
leukoplakia and75
Tobacco leaf'extQacts
effect on cell cultures, 85,86
Tiacheal cancer
smoking and, 71
Tteadmill performance:
cardiovascular parameters in smokers vs.
nonsmokers, 242-24!5'
effect of vitammC; 24'5'5
oxygem intake in smokers vs. nonsmokers,
245
Triglyceride levels
CHDiand, 8'
Tumarigenic :activitq
of cigprpipe, and cigarette smoke conden-
sate in skin painting experiments in
animals, 210-214
of tobacco;smoke, 210-2141
Ulber, duodenal
mortality ratios in male cigar and pipe
smokers, 222
nicotine'induced', in cats,,158,159
post-operative complications in smokers
vs: nonsmokers, 157
potentiating action of nicotine, in animals,.
161I-163
prevalence in smokers, mechanism of~ acY-
ion, 160!
Ulcer, peptic
clinical studies, 155-157
epidemiological studies, 155-157
gastric secretion, in smokers vs. nonsmok-
ers, 157,; 58
increased mortality in' Japanese smokers
vs. nonsrnokers,,155',15fi.
mortality ratios in Japanese adults by age
at initiation of smoking habit,, 155,156
mortality ratios in male cigar and pipe
smokers, 222
predisposing factors, 157'
recurrence in smokers vs& nonsmokers, 157
andl smoking, summary of previous find
ings, 155'
Urinary bladder cancer
see Bladder cancer;
Vascular disease, peripheral
smoking and19-23
Vascular reconstructionn
effect of smoking, 22,23
Ventilatory function
effect of exercise and'smoking244';245
Ventricular fibrillation
effect of cigarette s,moke in dogs, 13,14
Ventricular hypertrophy
as a risk factor in CHD,, 8
Vitamin B, Z,
in pregnant smokers vs. nonsmokers, 119
Vitamin C
effect on treadmill performance in smo-
kers vs. nonsmokers,, 245
in milk of smoking mothers;,141
in, pregnant smokers vs. nonsmokers; 119
Water hardness:
and smoking as risk factors in CHD; 9;10
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