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Honorable Carl Allbert.
Speaker of the Hiouse of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 205,15
Dear Mr. Speaker :
Ehclosed is the 1972' report on the healthi consequences of snnoking„
ascalledforbySection8'(a), ofthePubllicHealth Cigarette Smoking,
Act of 1969. As you will see, it continues and strengthens the find-
ings of previous Public Health Service reports that cigarette
srn:oking, is a hazard' to the health of the American peopl'e..
Under this Act„ I am also required to submit to youl suchi recom-
menddtion& for legislation as I d'eem~ appropriate.
As you know,,ithas long,been, the position of this Department that
an adequate health warning; shouldl appear in cigarette advertise-
ment& along with listings of "tar" and nicotine. We are: in support
of the current efforts of the Federal'Il'rade Commission to bring this
about through the exercise of its regulatory powers. Should, these
efforts fail, however, we would return to our previous reeornmenda-
tions that this should be accornplished through legisl~ative action.
With kindest regards,
Sincerely,
Elliot L. Richardson
Secretary

Preface
Six times since 1964, the Public Health Service has issued formall
reviews of the scientific evidence which links cigarette smoking to
disease and premature death. Eaeh successive review, including
this one, has served to:conffrm and strengthen the conclusion of the:
1!19'64 Report, that eigarettes are a major cause of death and disease.
In the first three chapters of this report, the relationships be-
tween cigarette smoking and cancer, cardiovascular disease, and
non~-neoplastic bronchopulmonary disease are reviewed and evi~
dence is presented whichi helps develop our understanding of' thee
mechanisms which are involved in~ these relationships. In the finall
three chapters; information is presented on public exposure to, air
polluti'on, from tobacco, on the relationship between tobacco and
allergy, and on the harmful constituents whichi are found in ciga-
rette smoke.
In the past few years, millions of Americans have stopped smok-
ing because they have persuadedl themselves that it is in their own
self-interest to do so ; we must continue to encourage cessation as
the only certain way to protect both the individuall and society frorn
the harmful effects of' smok:ing. We must also, however,, work to-
wards reducing the dangers ofl smoking for those who have notl
quit by develbping less hazardous cigarettes and encouraging less
hazardous ways of smoking. The chapter which discusses the
harmful constituents of smoke is a useful statement, of our current
knowledge in this field ; it should interest not only research scien-
tists but those who are concerned with public education and public
policy.
Research in smoking, and health continues, as this report shows,,
both in this country and abroad and' under both public and private
auspices ;, furthermore, the range of this research is widening as the
significance of cigarette smoking as apublic health problem becomes
more apparent.Iln establishing the present series of reports, first
under Public Law 89-92' and now under Public Law 91-222, the
Congress has givenius a means of encouraging the research we need
and of building a better understanding of the problem.
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Letter of Transmittal .................................. iii
PREPARATION OF THE REPORT ANDi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ..........................
Chapter 1.~ Introductioni and Summary ..............
Chapter 2. Cardiovascular Diseases ...............
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Chapter 3. 1*Ton-neoplasticBronchopulmonary Diseases ... 35,
Chapter 4. Cancer ................................... 57'
Chapter 5'., Pregnancy .............................. 81
Chapter 6. Gastrointestinal Disorders ................... 95
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Chapter 7. Allergy .................................. 101
Chapter 8. Public Exposure to, Air Pollution from,
Tobacco Sinoke .......................... 1M
Chapter 9. Harmful Constituents of Cigarette Smoke ..... 139
Index ................................................. 151

Preparation of, the Report anid, Acknowllsdgments
"'Srnoking, and Health. Report of the Advisory Committee to the
Surgeon General of'the Publi'c Health Service"* was published ini
1964. The following dbcuments were subsequently published as re-
views of the medical literature as called for by Public Law 89-92.
1. "The Health Consequences of Smoking, A Public Health Serv-
ice R'eview : 19'67"* *
2. "The Health Consequences of Smoking, 11968 Supplement to
the 1967 PHS' Review"* *
3. "`The Health Consequences of' Smoking, 1969 Slzpplement to
the 1967 PHS R'eview"**'
These documents reviewed the medicall literature which had been
published since the original Surgeon General's Report. The format
of publishing a supplement t'o a supplement became unwieldy, par-
iews
ticularly in the light of the lack of availability of previous revs
to the general public. Therefore, when P.L. 91-222 was signed intb
law on April 1, 1970, calling for an 18-month interval between the
previous report and the new report, the entire field was reviewed
with~ an emphasis on the most recent additions to the literature..
The product of this review was :"The Health Consequences of
Smoking, A Report of the Surgeoni Generall: 1971."* *
The present document, "The Health, Cansequencesof Smoking, A.
Report of' the Surgeon General : L972,"' includes a review of' the
literature which has been published since the 1971 Report was
completed. It also includes an evaluation of the state of knowled'ge
in three areas which have not been previously reviewed in these
reports : allergy and tobacco, public exposure to air pollutioni frorn
tobaccoisrnoke; and harmful constituents of cigarette smoke.
The Nationall Clearinghouse for Sinoking and, Health has the
responsibility for the continuous monitoring, and! compilation of the
medical literature on the health consequences of smoking and for
the preparation of this dbcument. This is accomplished through sev-
eral mecha.n2sms :
• Referred too in this~ manuscript as~s the~.Surgeon General's~~. Report~L
Referredd to~ in, this manuscripbt as ~~. "The,Hea]th Cansequences~~ of'. Smoking; "
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11. An information science corporation is on contract to extract
articles on smoking and health from~ the medical literature of'
the worldl This organization provides a semi~-monthly acces-
sions list wiith: abstracts and copies of the various articles.
Translations are called for as needed. Articles are classified
according to subject and filed by a sei:ies of code words and
phrases.
2. The National Library of' Medicine; through the Medlars sysr
tem, sends the National Clearinghouse for Stnoking and
Health a monthly listing of artieles in the smoking and health
area, These are reviewed, and articles not identified by the
information science corporation are ordered.
3. Staff members review current medicall literature and identify
pertinent articles.
Initial drafts of the present review were prepared by the staff'
direetor„ assistant staff director, and' consulting, editors. The firstdrafts of the individual
chapters were sent to experts for review,
criticism, and comment with respect to ~ the articles reviewed, arti-
cles not included, and conclusions. The drafts were then revisedd
until they met with the general approval of the reviewers. The final
ftafts were reviewed as a whole by the Director of the Nationall
Clearinghouse for Sinoking,andiHealth, the Director of'the National.
Cancer Institute, the Director of the Nlationali Heart and Lung
Ihstitute, the Director of the I'dational! Institute of Environmental
H'ealth: Sciences, and by six additional experts both within and out-
side of the Public Healtli S'ervice:
Acknowledgment's.
The Nat'ional Clearinghouse for Smoking and' Healthy Daniel
Horn, Ph. D!, Director, was responsible for the preparation of this
report. Staff Director for the report was John H. Holbrook, M.D.,
and Assistant S!taffDirector wa& Elvin E., Adams;, M.D!, D'aniel!, P..
Asnes, M.D., and David G. Cook,, M.D., were Consulting, Editors,
The professional staff has hadithe assistance and advice of a num-
ber of'experts in the scientific andl technical fields, both in and out-
side of'the Government. Their contributions are gratefully acknowl-
edged. Special thanks are due the folIowing:.
Arrneesorr„wiLLtpnrt H., M.D: Chief; Pulmonary Section, School of Medicine,
University of Louisville, Louisville;, Kentucky.
ANTHOrrIsErr, NICHOLAS R.,,M.D., Ph: D-Associate Professor, Department of'
Experimental, Medicine, McGill' University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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AuERBACHy OseAR', hiLD.-Senior Medical Investigator, Veterans Administra-
tion Hospital,,East Orange, New Jersey.
A-i'sKS, STEPHEN M., M.D., Di'rector, Cardiopulmonary Laboratory,,Saint Vin-
cent's Hbspital and Medical Center of New York, New York, New York.
BAKER, CARL G., M.D.-Director, National! Cancer Institute, National Institutes
of' Health, Bethesda, Marylandi
BtxG, RICHARD J., M1D:-Proflessor of Medicine, University of' Southern Cali-
fornia, Huntington~ Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, California.
Ba¢K, FftEn G., Ph. D'.-Director; Orchard Park Laboratories, Roswell' Park
Memorial, Institute, Orchard' Park, New York.,
BOREN, HbuLis G., M.D: Chief, Pulmonary Disease Seetions The Medical Col'*
lege of Wisconsinj , Wood Veterans Administration Hospital, M'2lkvaukee,.
W isconsim
BOUTWELL, ROSWELL K., M.D: Professor of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for
Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
COOPER, THEODORE, M.D.-Director, National Heart and Lung Institute, Na-
tional Institutes ofl Healtlhy Bethesda:, Maryland.
CoxINFrELn„ JeEtomE--Research Professor of Biostatistics, Graduate School of
Public Health;, University of Pittsburgh, Biostatistics Project, Bethesda,
Maryland.
EPSTEIN, FREDEarCi[ HL, M.D. DirectorandlProfessoroflEpidemiology,,Sehool.
of' Public Health„ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
FALK, HANS L.,,P'h. D-Associate Director for Program, National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
FAgR; RICHARD, M:D.-Head, Department of Allergy and, Clinical, Immunology,
Nationall Jewish Hospital and Research Center, Denver, Colbrado,
FERRIs, BENJAMIN G., J[t.,, M.D.-Professor of Environmental Health, and.
Safety, School of Public Heaithy Harvard University, Bostony Massachusetts.
FTtvKLEA, JOHN F.,, M.D.-Acting Director„ Division of Effects Research` Na-
tional Environmental Research Cent'er;, Research Triangle Park, Niorth
Carolina.
FITZPATRICK, MARK J., M.D: Obstetrician, Perinatal Biology and Infant Mor-
tality Branch, National Institute of' Child Health and Human Development,,
National, Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
FxAZtER„ToDD M'.-Assistant,Director, Harvard Center for Community Health,
and Medical Care, S'chooll of' Public Healthy, Harvard University, Boston,
Massachusetts.
FRESTON, JAMES; 1GI.D.-Associate Professor of Medicine, Head, Division of!
Gastroenterology, Uhtiversity of Utah Medical, School, Salt: Lake City,, Utah.
GocnsMiTx„JoHN R.,,M.D,-Head, Environmental Epidemiology Unit„Bureau
of' Occupational Health and Environmental Epidemiology, California, State
Department of'Public H'ealth,, Berkeley,, California.
HANNA, MICHAEL G'., JR., Ph. D.-Director, I:mmunol'ogy, of' Carcinogenesis
Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
HARKAvY,, JOSEPH, 1VLD. Clinicall Professor of Medicine (Emeritus), The
Mount Sinai Medical School of the University of New York, New York, New
York.
HIGGINS, IlpN T. '1;.,,M.D.-Professor of Epidemiology, School of'Public Heaith,
University of' M,icfiigan, Ann Arbor;,lVTichigan.
HOFFMANN, DiK^rRacx;, Ph. D:-Chief,, Division of' Environmental Carcino-
genesis„ American Health Foundationy, New York, New York.
KELLER, A,rmnREw Z,, D:M.D;-Chief, Research in Geographic Epidemiology,
Veterans Administrationi Central Office, Wasfiington~ D.C~
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KIRSrtER„JosEPH B, M.D., Ph. D.-Chief of Staff and Deputy Dean for Medical
Affairs, The Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals
and Clinics, Chicago, Illfinois:
Ko[sYE; ALBERT C:, JR., M.D:, J.D.-Deputy Directbr, Bureau of Foods, Food
and Drug, Administration, U:S'. Depart'rnent of' Health„ Education, and Well- ;
fare, Washington„ D.C.
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Ka.UwIHOLZ, RICHARD A., 1VI.D.-Medical, Director;, Institute of Respiratory
Diseases, Kettering Medical Center;, Kettering, Qhio..
LEtveatvm,, CLAUDE JL M., 11S1D -Associate Director f'or Lung, Programs, Na-
tionall Heartl and Lung Institut'e, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,,
Maryland. LIEBOW, AVESILL A., M.D.-Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology,
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University of California (San Diego), Lai Jblla, Calif'ornia. ~
LILIENFELD;, ABRAHAM, M.D.-Professor and, Chairman, Department of Epide-
miology,, School, of'Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, ~
B'altimore; Maryland.,
LowE.LI;,, Ffi;nNCis C., 1Vf.D. Chief, Allergy Unit, Massachusetts General Hos-
pital, Boston, Massachusetts.
MCLEAN, Ross, M.D.-Professor of Medicine, B'owman, Gray School ofl Medi-
cine, Wake Forest University, Winston, Salem,, North Carolina. !'
MCMILLANS, GARDNER C., M.D.-Chief, Arteriosclerotic Disease Branch,, Na-
tional' Heart and Lung Institut'e, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, ~
Maryland. i
MACMAHON, BxIArr„M.Di-Professor of Epidemiology, School of'PublicHealth, j
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Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
MEYER, MARY B., MRs.-Assistant Professor ofl Epidemiology,, The Johns i'
Hopkins University, Baltlimore,, Maryland. i,
MITCHELL, ROGER S., MLD-Chief of Staff, Veterans Administration Hospital, ~,
Denver, Colbrado~ +
MURPHY, EDMOND A., M.D'., Sc. D.-Associate Professor of Medicine and Bio- l
statistics, The Johns~ Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. ~
NervaLL,, VAUN A., M.D:-Chief,, Health, Effects Branch, Environmental Pro-
tection Agency, Washington, D.C.
PAFFENBARGER, RAcPH S., Jit., 1VI.D-Chief, Epidemiology Seetlion,, Bureau of
Adult Health, and Chronic Diseases, California State Department of Public
Health,, Berkeley;C'alifornia.,
PARKER, CHARr.ES' W'., M.D.-PYofessor of Internall Medicine, Division of Im-
munology, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri.
PETERS, JpHN M., M.D.-Associate Professor of Occupational Medieine,, School
of'Public Health, Harvard University,,Bostbn, Massachusetts.
PETEesoN, WILLIAM F., MID-Chairman, DepaR•tment, of Obstetrics and Gyne-
cology, Washington Hospital! Center, Washington, D'.C.
PET•rs, THOivcAS'L.,, M.D.-Associate Professor of Medicine and Head, Divi'sion
of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver,
Colorad'o.
Ra:el:,, DAVID P., M.D.-Director, National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
REruzErrTI, ATTItrIO: D:, JR., M.D.-Professor of' Medicine, Pulmonary Disease
Divisions University of Utah Medical Center„ Salt Lake City, Utah,.
Rosirrs, MosTOrt-Chief of Study, Design„and Analysis Staff,,Regional Medical
Programs Service,, Healtihi Services andl Mental Health Administlration,
Rockville,, MaryUand.
SaFFloTrrI, UMBERTO, M.D.-Associatle Scientific Director for Carcinogenesis,
Etiology National Cancer Institute, National, Institutes of H,eaith,, Bethesda,
Maryland. ~
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ScHUrKAN, LEONARD M., M.D.-Professor andl Head, Division of'Epidemiology,.
School, of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
SHCnYKrN, M'iCHAEL B., M.D.-Coordinator and Professor of Community Mtdi-
cine and Oncology, Regional' Medical Program, University of' California
( San, DiegQ)., La Jolla, California.,
S'rA:utER; JExeMiAH,, M.D.-Executive Director, Chicago Heal'th, Research
Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
VAN DvUxEN, BEN.TAwcrN L., M.D: Professor of' Environmental Medicine,,
Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University Med'tcal Center,.
New York, New York..
WYNnEx, ERNesT L., M.D., President, AmericaniHeallth Foundation, New Yark,
New York.
The chapter on Harrnful~ Constituents of Cigarette Smoke was
prepared somewhat differently from the rest of the report, being,
the culmination of a one-day conference held in June 1570~t'o review
this area of knowledge and to discuss a draft report prepared in, ad-
vance by staff 'of the National Institute of Environmental Healthi
Sciences and the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Heal'th
Earlier in this section, some of these participants are acknowledged
as contributors to other parts of the report, namely,, Dr. Daniel,
Horn, who served as Cha2rmanof the meeting, Drs. DanieliP. Asnes,
Fred G. Bock, Dietrichi Hoffmann, Albert C. Kolbye, Gardner C.
TlIcilTillans Umberto Safl'iotti, Leonard Schuman, Benjamin L. Van
Duuren„ and' E'rnest, L. Wynder.
In addition, acknowledgments shouldl be made to the, following
who were also participants in the, conference :~
Goer, Gio BATTA,, M.D.-Associate Scientific Director for Pragrami Etiology,
Nationall Cancer Institute, Natianal, Institutes of Health„Bethesda„Marylandl
GR[FFiTH,, RoBExT; Ph. D.-Direct'or; Tobacco and Health Research Institute,,
iJ21iversity of'Kentucky, Lexington, Kent'ucky..
G>'~ER[N, MICHAEL, Ph. D.-Senior Chemist, Oak Ridge National Laborat'ory,
Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
JARUrK,, MURRAY, M.D.-Professor of' Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine of' Yeshiva University,, Bronx,, New York.
KENSLER, CaAxzES,, M.D.-Senior Vice President, Life Sciences Division,.
Arthur D: Little, I'nc., Cambridge, Massaehusetts.
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ter,, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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tlional' Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
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gations, Plant Science Researchi Division, ARS, U.S! Department of Agri-
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CHAPTER 1i
I
ntroduction and Summary

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INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY
Cigarette: smoking continues to be a major health problem in the:
Unitedi States today. It is still too early to tell whether the increas-
ing rate of'giving; up smoking by adults during the years 19'67; 1968„
1969; and early 1970 and the plateauing, of this effect during the
past year have had any: measurable effect, on the morbidity: and'
rnortalit'y associated with smoking. At the same time that the majorr
health professions, voluntary health agencies, and public service
agencies concernedl have joined with governmentagencies to reduce
the magnitude of this problem through education,, research efforts
devoted to understanding, how cigarette smoking affects biological
function to produce disease continue at a high levell.
This report is largely concerned with reviewing, the research re-
ports which have become availablie in the past year. In this chapter;
brief summary statements are presented of the state of'knowledg.e
in severall areas. These are followed,, where appropriate, by a"high,
light" statement of significant ad'ditions to knowledge made as a
result of the new research presented in greater detail in the~ body
of the report.
The state of knowledge! in three areas;, whichi have not been re+
viewed previously, is also presented in the report. These areas are:.
Allergy, Public Exposure to Ai'r Pollution from Tobaceo Smoke,
and'the Harmful Constituents of Cigarette Sinoke:
SUMMARY : CORONARY HEART DISEASE.
Cigarette smokers have higher death, rates from coronary heart
disease (CHD) than nonsmokers.. This relationship is stronger for
men than women. Cigarette smoking markedly increases ani individ-
ual's susceptibility to earlier death from CHD'. Cigarette smoking,,
hypertension, and elevated serum cholesterol are major risk factors
contributing to the development of CHD ; cigarette smoking acts
both independently and conjointly with these other factors to in-
crease the risk of' developing CHD. Cigarette smoking may con-
tribute both to the development of CHD and to the exacerbation of
preexistent CHD ;, both nicotine and carbon monoxide are thought
to~ contribute to these abnormal processes. Cigarette smoking is
associated with a significant increase in atherosclerosis of the aorta.
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and' coronary arteries. Cessation of smoking is associated with a
decreased risk of death from CHiD. The risk of CHD~ incurred by
pipe and cigar smokers is appreciably less than that incurred by
cigarette smokers.
FilTighl'2ghtsof' 1~972 ' Report: Coronarg, Heart Disease
1. Recent epidemiological! studies from severall countries confirm
that cigarette smoking, is one of' the major risk factors con-
tributing,tothe!developmentof'CHD: Avoidance of cigarettesmoking is of importance iln the primary
prevention of CHiD.
2: Studies in man and animals have shown a greater myocardial
arteriole walli thickness in smokers than nonsmokers:
3. Experimental and epidemiological investigations implicate
the elevationi of carboxyhemoglobin levels in smokers as a
contributor to the develbpment of CHD and arteriosclerotic
peripheral vascular disease.,
4: Cigarette smoking, is considered to be the major cause of' pul-
monary heart disease (cor pulmonale) in the United States in
that it is the most important cause of chronic non-neoplastic
bronchopulmonary diseases. Avoidance of cigarette smoking,
is of importance in the primary prevention of pu'1i.nonary
heart disease.
SUIVIIVIARY : CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE'
Cigarette smokers have higher death rates from cerebrovascular
disease than nonsmokers.
SUMIVIARY : NONSYPHILITIC AORTI.C' ANIEURYSM*
Cigarette smokers have higher death rates from nonsyphilitic
aortic aneurysm than nonsmokers.
SUMIVTARY: PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE
Cigarette smoking is a likely risk factor in the development of
peripheral vascular disease. Cigarette smoking appears to aggravate
preexistent peripheral vascular'disease.
•Thissummarysdatement~ is the samee as that.appearing.inprevious.t reports,, because neww
studies adding,to the understanding of'this.area.have not'appearedi.Consequently, the Iiteraturein
this area is not reviewedland the statementl is only, included to complete this summary chapter.
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SUMIVIARY :: NON-NEOPLASTIC
BRONCHiOPUIl.IVIONARY DISEASES
Cigarette smoking is.the most important cause of'chronic obstruc-
tive bronchopulmonary disease (COPD) in the United States. Ciga-
rette smokers have higher death rates from pulmonary emphysema
and chronic bronchitis and more frequently have impaired pul-
monary function and pulmonary symptoms than nonsmokers:, Ex-
cigarette smokers have lower death rates from, COPD, than do con-
tinuing smokers. Cessation of smoking is associat'ed! with improved
ventilatory function and decreased pulmonary symptom prevalence..
For most of the Unitedi States population, cigarette smoking is a
more important cause of COPD1 than, air pollution or occupational
exposure; cigarette smoking may also act conjointly with occupa,
tional or environmental exposure to produce greater COPD mor-
bidity and mortality. An infrequent genetic: error,, homozygous
alpha,-antitrypsin, deficiency,, has beeni commonly associ~atedl with
the early development of severe, panacinar emphysema. Whether or,
not cigarette smoking acts together with the i- -1mozygous or hetero-
zygous deficiency states to increase the risk, of developing either
panacinar emphysema or the more common forms af COPD, has
not been adequately studied. Cigarettie smoking, exerts an, adverset effect on the pulmonary
clearance mechanism. Respiratory infec-
tions are more prevalent and severe, among cigarette smokers,, par-
ticuIarly among heavy smokers; than among nonsmokers. The risk
of developing or dying from COPD among pipe or cigar smokers is
probably higher than that among, nonsmokers: but is clearly less&
than that among cigarette smokers.
Flighl'ights of'the 1972' Reportr
1'Non-rueoplicstic Bronchopulmonary Diseases
L. Recent epidemiological and clinical studies, from several
CRYSiVI*
nonsyphilitic
2.
EASE
relopment of
3'.
to aggravate
4.
rts, because new
tly,, the literature .
ummary cHapter.,
countries confirmt'hat rnen~and women cigarette smokers have
an increased prevalence of respiratory symptoms and have
diminished pulmonary function compared~ to~ nonsrnokers..
Investigations of high school students have demonstrated that
abnorrnaii pulmonary function and pulmonary symptorns are
more common in smokers than nonsmokers.,
Recent occupationall studies confirm that cigarette smoking is
an important cause of, COPD; acting both~ independently andd
in: combination with occupationali exposure..
Recent experimentall studies confirm t'hat cigarette smoking
exerts an adverse effect, on pulmonary clearance and macro-
phage function.
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5, Pulmonary macrophages obtained frorn cigarette smokers ex-
hibit characteristic rnorphologic differences when compared
to those obtainedi from nonsmokers:
SUMIVIARY : CANCER
~ II
Cigarette smoking,i's the major cause of lung cancer in men andla6 significant cause of lung, cancer
inwomen. The risk of developing f
lung cancer in both men and women is directly related to an individ-
ual's exposure as measured by: the number of cigarettes smoked, '
duration of smoking, earlier initiation, depth, of'inhalat'ion, and the i`
amount of "tar" produced by the cigarette. The risk of developing !i
lung, cancer diminishes with cessation of srnoking., Smokers of pipes ':
or cigars have a lower risk of developing lung cancer than cigarette i'
smokers. Certain occupations are associated' with an increased risk
of developing lung cancer. In these occupatianal settings cigarette
smoking, appears& to exert an effect that produces much higher lung
cancer rates than those resulting, either fromi the occupational ex- ,
posure alone or from smoking alone. Factors associated with urban
living result in an, increase in the risk of' developing lung cancer;~
this effect, however, is minor compared to, the overriding effect of
cigarette srnoking,The smoking of cigarettes, pipes, and cigars is a significant factor
in the development of cancers of'the larynx andl oral cavity., Pipe
smoking, is causally relatledl to cancer of the lip. The significant asso-
ciatilon between smoking and the development of cancer of the
esophagus i'ssornewhat stronger for ci'gar.ettes than forpipe& oreigars andl the combined~ exposure
to alcohol and cigarettes is asso-
ciated with especially high rates of cancer of the esophagus. Ciga-
rette smoking, is associated with cancer of the urinary bladder in
menL There is also an association between cigarette smoking andd
cancer of the pancreas.
Hiyhlights of'the 1972 Report: Cancer
1. Preliminary result's from a major prospective epidemioJogicall
study in Japan demonstrate a st'rong,association between, cig-
arette smoking and lung cancer.A dose-response relationship,
was demonstrated for the number of cigarettes smoked. These
findings in an Asian population withi distinct genetic and cul-
tural characteristics confirm the: major importance of' ciga-
rette smoking in the causation of lung cancer, ai conclusion
which up to now has been based largely on studies of Cauca-0
siani populations in the United States, Canada„ and! Europe. I
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2.Ex-srnokers have significantly lower death rates for lung can-
cer than continuing smokers. The decline in risk following
cessation appears to be rapid both for those who have smoked
for long, periods of time andl for those with a shorter smoking
hsstory,, withi the sharpest reductions taking place after the
3.
en andla
Ueloping
individ
smoked, ,
; and thee
veloping,
.
of pipes
;igarett'e
lsed risk
°igarette
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cancer;
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effect of
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ting and
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and cul
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first two years of cessation.
The risk of developing, lung, cancer appears to be, higher for
smokers who have chronic bronchitis. Though both conditions
are directly related to the: amount and duration of smoking,
an additional risk: for lung cancer appears to exist for ciga-
rette smokers with chronic bronchitis which is independent of'
age and'r number of cigarettes consumed.
Experimental stud'ies on animals have demonstratedl that the
particulate phase of tobacco smoke contains certain chemical
compounds which can act as complete earcinogens, tumor
initiators, or tumor promot'ers.Recently, other compounds
have been described that have no i'ndependent activity in two-
stage carcinogenesis but accelerate the carcinogenic effects of
polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in the initiator-promoter
system.
Additionall epidemiological evidence confirms a significant as-
sociation between the combined use of cigarettes andl alcohol,
and cancer of the esophagus.
Epidemiological studies,have demonstrated a significant asso-
ciation between cigarette smoking and cancer of the urinary
bladdsr, in both men and women. These studies demonstrate
that the risk of developing: bladder cancer increases with in-
halat'ion~ and the number of' cigarettes smoked.
Epidemiological evidence demonstrates a significant associa-
tion between cigarette smoking , and cancer of the paner.eas.,
S'UMiMARY : PREGNANCY
Maternal smoking during pregnancy exerts a retarding influence
on fetal growth as manifested by decreased infant birth weight andd
an increased incidence of prematurity, defined by weight.. There isi
increasing evidence to support, the view that women who smoke.
during pregnancy have a significantly greater risk of an unsuccess-
ful pregnancy than those who db not.
SUiIIMARY~: GASTROINTESTINAL D~ISGRDE~~R&
Cigarette smoking males have an increased prevalence of peptic
ulcer disease as compared to nonsmoking rnales and a greater peptic

ulcer mortallity ratio. These relationships are stronger for gastric
ulcer than for duodenal ulcer. Smoking appears to reduce the effec-
tiveness of standard peptic ulcer treatment and to slbw the rate of
ulcer healing.
Highlights of the 1972' Report: Ga,strointestinr,cl Disorders
1. A possible link between cigarette smoking, and peptic ulcer
has been demonstrated in dbgs in which nicotine was found to
inhibit pancreatic and hepatic bicarbonate secretion. This
could lead to peptic disease by depriving the duodenum of
sufficient alkaline secretion to neutralize gastric acidity.
2. Ani investigation in human volunteers has suggested that cig=
arette smoking decreases the effectiveness of the lower-
esophageal sphincter as a barrier against gastro-esophageal
reflux..
SUIVIMARY : TOBACCO AMBLYOPIA*
Tobacco amblyopia is presently a, rare disorder in the United.
States. The evidence suggests that this disorder, iis related to nutri-
tional or idiopathic deficiencies in certain detoxification mecha-
nisms, particularly in the rnetabolism, of the cyanide component of
tobacco smoke.
SUMMARY: NON-NEOPLASTIC ORAL DISEASE*
Ulceromembranous gingivitis, alveolar bone loss, and stomatitis
nicotina are more commonly found among smokers than among
nonsmokers, The influence of smoking, on periodontal disease andd
gingivitis probably operates ini conjunction with poor oral hygiene..
In addition, there is evidence that smoking may be associated with
edentulismi and delayed socket healing. While further experimental
and clinical studies are indicated, it wouldl appear that nonsmokers
have an advantage over smokers in terms of't'heir oral health.
The information contained in the follo2cing three summarg state_
ments: Allergy, Public Exposure to Air Pollution from Tobacco
Smoke, and Harmful Constituents o f Cigarette Smoke, is ne2v and
appears for the first time.
• This summaryy statementt is the samease that appearingg in previous reports, because new
stNdies.addingtotheunderstandingofthis;area have not appeared. Consequently;.ttieliterature, in this
area.is.not reviewed and the statement.isonlyincludedto~complete this summarychapter.y
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SUMMARY OF' THE' 1'972' REPORT : ALLERGY
1. Tobacco leaf, tobacco pollen„ and tobacco smoke are antigenic
in man andl anincrals,
2. (a) ~ Skin sensitizing, antibodies specific for tobacco antigens
have been found frequently in smokers and nonsmokers.
They appear to occur more often in allergic individuals.
Precipitating antibodies specific for tobacco antigens
have also been found in both smokers and nonsmokers:,
(b) A delayed type of hypersensitivity to tobacco has been
demonstrated in man.
(ic) ' Tobacco may exert an adverse effect on protective mech-
anisms of'the : immune ! system~ in manand animals.3'. (a): Tobacco smoke can, contribute to the
discomfort of many
individuals. Itexerts complex pharmacologic, irritative,
and allergic effects, the clinical manifestations of which
may be indistinguishable from one another.
(b) Exposure to tobacco smoke may produce exacerbation of
allergic symptoms in nonsmokers who are suffering from
allergies of' diverse causes.
4. Lit't'le is known about the pathogenesis of tobacco allergy and
its possible relationship to other smoking-related diseases.
;SUMMARY OF THE 1972 REPORT: PUBLIC EXPOiSURE TO
AIR POLLUTION FROM TOBACCO SMOKE
,
1. An atmosphere contaminated withi tobacco smoke can con-
tribute to ithe discomfort of many individuals.
2.. The level of carbon monoxide attained in experiments using
rooms filled with tobacco smoke has been shown to equal„ and!
at times to, exceed, the legal' limits for maximum air pollution
permitted for ambient air quality in several localities and can
also exceed the occupationali Tlireshold Lianit Value for a nor=
mall work period presently in, effect for the United States as a
whole. The presence of suchi levels indicates that the effect of
exposure to carbon monoxide rnay: on occasion, dependh'ng,
upon the length of exposure, be sufficient to be harmful to the
health of an exposed person. This would be particularly sig-
nificant for people who are already suffering, from chronic
bronchopulmonary disease and coronary heart disease.,
3, Other components of tobacco smoke, such as particulate mat-
ter andl the oxides of nitrogen, have been shown in various
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concentrations to affect adversely animal pulmonary and
cardiac structure and functiom The extent of the contribu-
tions of these substances: to illness in humans exposed to the
concentrations present in an atmosphere contarninatedl with
tobacco smoke is not presently known.,
SUMMARY OF THE 1972' REPORT:
HARMFUL CONSTITUENTS OF CIGARETTE SIVIOKE'
A number of substances or classes of substances found in ciga-
rette smoke are identified as those which are judged to be con-
tributors to the health hazards,of'srnoking. These constituents are
further divided into the most likely contributors to these health
hazards (carbon monoxide, nicotine, and tobacca "'tar'''), sub-
stances which are probable contributors„ and those which are sus-
pected contributors. The recommendations for controli in this area
are to seek progressive reduction of all harmful constituents in
cigarette smoke with priority being given first to the most likely
contributors named and second to the.probable contributors, to the
health hazards of smoking. Th.ese~ judgments represent the consen-
sus of experts based on current knowledge and are subject to modi-
fication and further elaboration as more knowledge becomes
available.
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posed to the
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CHAPTER 2
Cardiovascuil6r Diseases

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Coronary Heart Disease
Introdhzction ................................... 13'
Epidemiological Studies ..... . ........... . ........ 14.
Interaction of Smoking, and Other Risk Factor& ....... 16
Autopsy Studies ................................ ]i9
Experimental Studies .............. . .... . ...... . .
Nicotine and Cigarette Smoke .............. . ..
Carbon Monoxide ............................
Stnoking and Thrombosis ....................
Cholesterol Content of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke:
Cor P~ulmonale (Pulmonary Heart Disease)~ . . ...........
Cerebrovascular Disease ...................................
,
Peripheral Vascular Disease . . . .........................
Oral Cbnt'raceptives, Thrombophlebitis„ and Srnoking.......
Highlights of Current Cardiovascular Information . ........
References .............................
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1.-Incidence (1963-1970) of heart infarct in relationn
to tobacco consumption, ini "'The Men Born in 1913,,'
Goteborg,Sweden ......................................
Table 2'. Cigarette smoking at entry and'subseqnent 20-year
CI-IiD incidence, among Minnesota men ..................
Table 3.-Human autopsy study. Comparison of the thick-
ness of' myocardial arteriole walls in smokers andl non-
smokers ................................................
Table 4.-Average values of carboxyhemoglobin and serum
cholesterol in Danish smokers and nonsmokers in control
group and'l gxoup, of patients with arteriosclerotic cardio-
vaseular disease ..........................................
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Figure 1..-C'anihe autopsy study. Comparison of the thick-
ness of myocardial arteriole walls in 32 smoking dogs
killed after 875 days and 8 nonsrnoking, dogs ........... 20
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IhTTRO!DUCTIION
In the United States more people die from coronary heart disease
(CHD)'~ than from any other disease; furthermore; CHD is the
single most important cause of excess death among cigarette
smokers (54, 57). The 1'9'71 report, "The Health Consequences of
Smoking" (56) , outlined the growing magnitude of t'his problem
and summarized the relationship between smoking and coronary
heart disease as follows :
1. Data from numerous prospective and retrospective studies
confirm the j udgment that cigarette smoking is a sigmsficant
risk factor contributiilg to the development of coronary heart
disease including fatall CHD' and its most severe expression,
sudden and unexpected death. The risk of CHD incurred by
smokers of pipes and cigars is appreciably less than that by
cigarette smokers,
2. Analysis of' other factors 'associated with CHD (high serum
cholesterol, high blood pressure, andl physical inactivity)
shows that cigarette smoking operates independently of these
other factors and can act Jointly with cert,'ain of them to in-
crease the risk of CHD appreciably.
3. There is evidence that cigarette smoking may accelerate the
pathophysiological changes of pre-existing, coronary heart
disease and't'herefore contributes to: sudden death from CHD.
4. Autopsy studies suggest that cigarette smoking is: associated
w ith a significant increase in atherosclerosis of the aorta, and
coronary arteries.
5: The: cessation of smoking is associated with a decreasedi risk
of death from CHD.
6'. Experimental studies in animals and' humans suggest that
cigarette smoking may contribute to the development of CHD:
and/or its manifestations by one or more of the followTingg
rnechanisrns :
a. Cigarette smoking, by: contributing to the release of
cat'echolamines, causes increased myocardial wall tension,
cont'ractioni velocity, and heart rate, and thereby increases
the work of' the heart and the myocardial demand for
oxygen and other nutrients.
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b. Among individuals with coronary atherosclerosiis; ci~ga-
retite smoking, appears to create an imbalance bet'ween, the
increased needs of the myocardium and an insufficient in-
crease ini coronary blood flow and oxygenation.
c. Carboxyhemogl'obin, formed from the inhaled carbonn
monoxide, diminishes the availability of oxygen to ~the myo-
cardium and rnay: also contribute to the development of
atherosclerosis.
d. The impairment of pulmonary function caused by cigarette
smoking may contribute to arterial hypoxernia, thus reduc-
ing, the amount of oxygen available to the myocardium.e..
Cigarette smoking may cause an increase in platelet adhe-
siveness which might contribute to acute thrombus for-
mation.
Recent epidemiological, pathological, and experimental studies
add to the understanding of the relationship between smoking and,
CHD. These studies point to cigarette smoking as one of the major
risk: factors leading to CHD and help, clarify some of the biomech-
anisms through which t'his occurs.
EPIDiE1VDI0'1LOGTCAL STUDIES
A prospective study of 973' men born in 1913 in Goteborg,.
Swed~ens was, undertaken in 1963~ (51, 52) ~. The proportion of myo-
cardial infarctions among cigarette smokers was sigpRficantly
greater than among nonsmokers (P <.05)', and the incidence of
myoeardial infarction rose: with increasing cigarette consumption
(tab1E! U. afthe 35indivildu~alswho experienced a myocardial in-
farction between 1963' and 1970, only two, had been nonsmokers ; in
the whole population of: men borni in 1913, 56 percent were smokers.
Although angina pectoris was more common in smokers than
nonsmokers, the difference was smaller than for myocardial in.-
farction and was not statistically significant (52) 1.
Paffenbarger, et al. (.42) reported on the health experience of.
3,263 longshoremen st'udied' over the past 18 years. During this in-
terval 1,098 were known to have died, 350 dying from CHD'. Long-
shoremen who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day faced al risk
of coronary death which was more than twice as great as that of:
the group:made up of both nonsmokers and smokers of less than 20
cigarettes a day ( P' < .0i1)' .
Keys, et al. (30) analyzed the 20-year CHD incidence among 279
Minnesota, men aged 47 through 57 years who were CI-ID free at
entry into the study. The relationship of cigarette smoking habits
at the start of'the study to the subsequent incidence of CHD was
examined. The originally: published' table of results was incorrect
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i.
sis, ciga-
~ween the
Ficient in,
:
i
I carbon
i the myo-
pment of
cigarette
us reduc-
rdium.
~let adhe- '
abus for-
t1 studies
oking, and
he major
biomech~-
Goteborg, '
k of'myo-
nificantlly
idence of
Isumption
ardiall in.-
kokers ; in
j smokers. •
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ardial in-
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E"rience of
ug this in-
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eed a risk
m that of
is than 200
mong 27'9I
Dfree at
ng habits
CHD was
incorrectt
and the authors have supplied a corrected table which appeared
in a later issue of the', same jaurnal (table 2). The morbildity!
ratio for "'hard CHD"' (CHD deaths pius myocardial infarctions not
resulting in death) among those smoking more than ]0 cigarettes a
TABLE 1.-Incidence (1963-1'9?'n)~ of' heart infarct in relation to
tobacco cons2urnpt'ion in ".T'he Men Born in 1913," Goteborg;
Siveden.n = 855
clAssification
Sinoking Heart infarct
Never smoked
n= 207
Stlopped' smoking
n=168'
Cigarette smokers
1-14 cig/day
n = 234
15-24!cig/day
n = 138
?2'5cig/,day
n=33
Pipe/cigar
n=75'
Number Percent
( 2') 1.00
( 2'), 1.00
(13) 6~0
( 9) 7:0
( 4) 1i2:0
(,5) 7A
SOURCE:: 'Eibblin, G., Wilhelmsen, L, (51)..
TABLE 2.-Cigarette smoking at entry and'subsequent' 20-year CHD
incidence : among Minnesota men.l
Iwl~umber. Smoking~habit (cigarettes/day)~.
A'gee of'men~ Item Never~ Stopped. C1A. 10~-19~ }20~.
47,48 53 % with, habit 23' 19 9 19 30
49,50 51 % with habit 33 20 14 10 23
51,52 69 % with habit 33' 26I 14 14 13.
53„54 53' % with habit 36 30 8 13 13.
55-57 51 % with habitl 24 33' 8 18 17
47-57 277 Number of'men 83 71 30 41 52'
47-57 277 Hard CHD rate (~c)' 12.0 15.5 10:0 17.1 21.2'
47-57 277 Hard CHD rate (SE) ± 3.6 + 4.3' ± 5.5 ± 5.9 ± 5:7
47-57 277 Hard CHD Morbidity
Ratio 1.00 1,29 .83' 1.43' 1'.77.
-17-57' 277' .!Y11 CHD:rat'e (~lo) ±2r.7 ±21.1 ±16.7' ±19.5 ±26.9'
-17-57' 277, All CHD rate (SE) ± 4l5 ± 4.8 ± 6.8' ± 612' ± 6.1
47-57 277: All CHD1 Morbidity,Ratlio 1.00 .97: .77 .90 1.24
t Cigarette, smoking habits~, by~age~at.start of'the~.20-year~follaw-up~„ 20-year~..incidence rates
(per.100 men)~.,,and.st'andardlerrors (SE)', of thexates.,"Hard CEID"-CHD death~and~h myocardiali
infa~reta,. "All1'~-angina pectoris and other CH~.D~D diagnoses.. "Deaths"-from all causea except~
I ~i6lence:.
SOURCE: Modified from Keys, A.,,et al., (i30).
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day is similar to that reported from the large prospective studies.
However, with the small number of cases in each smoking, cat'egc,ry,,
there are no statistically significant differences in the incidence of
CHD between the categories, either singly or combined!.
Retrospective studies of CHD have recently been reportedi fromi
Czechoslbvakia, Sweden, Norway,, and India which, corroborate
earlier studies linking cigarette: smoking with excess CHD morbid-
ity and mortality.
The Prague study (19) included 443 men between the ages of 600
and 64 years. Significantly more (P <.05) ) individuals with a.
"probable" myocardiali infarction were found among, cigarette
smokers than among nonsmokers or pipe and cigar smokers.
The smoking habits of 120 patients with myocardial infarctionn
who were hospitalized in Gateborg were compared with those of thee
entire "men born in 197 3" population sampUe (17, 62). A signif-
icantliy (P <.01)~ greater number of smokers and heavy smokers
(more t'han 15 cigarettes & day) were found in the myocardial in-
farct'ioni group than in tlie population sample.,
The Bergen, Norway, cross: sectional study of 2,117 women and
2,472 men documented a relationship between smoking and CHD1im
men, which was most marked in the 5'0' to 59'. year old age group
(16). No effect of smoking, on the prevalence of CHD' in women was
demonstrable in this study, and the effect in men did not appear
to be related to the daily number of cigarettes smoked.
In! New Delhi, 100 "well 'documented" cases of ischemic heartt
disease were compared with an equal number of control cases (8)',..
In this study, significantly rnore ( P' <.01) of the case group smoked
cigarettes regularly than the control group, (1WTorbidity Ratio = 2.1) .
Mu1'cahy,et al. (40) recently foundla positive associatibn between
coronary heart disease mortality rate and calculated per capita cig-
arette consumption in 21 countries. He interpreted the results as
being, consistent with the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is a
significant risk factor in CHD': mortality.
Stamler, et al. (50) found that for both men and women the 1964
CHD mortality rates in 17 7 developed countries were.related to aver-
age annual per capital cigarette consumption.
INTERA:CTION OF SMOKING AND! OTHER RISK FACTORS
The Report of'the Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease
Resources summarized the evidence indicating that three risk fac-
tors (hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, and cigarette smoking)
are properly designated major risk factors for premature CHD
(,28)i. Other possible risk factors including, obesity,, physical inac-
tivity, diabetes mellitus, elevated resting heart rate, electrocardio-
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55,56) .
in the study of 973 men born in 1913! in Goteborg, Sweden, sev-
eral coronary risk factors including elevated serum, chol'esterol;, ele-
vatedl serum triglyceride, low physical' activity at work,, and' smok-
ing were found tobe related to an increased risk for the development
of coronary heart disease during the subsequent years of'the study.
Failure to find a relationship between hypertension andl an, in-
creased risk of CHD may have been due to the fact that all patients
-,Vithi hypertension in 19!63' have been under treatment since thatt
tiihue~
Tibbliniand Wilhelmsen (52)' found!that as:a patient accumulated
more risk factors his chance of' developing, CHD1 became substan-
tially greater. Werko (61)' reportedl from the same GReborg study
that patients who were smokers; had sedentary jobs, and had both
tlevatedicholesterol and triglycerides experienced a 4-year incidence
ofrsew coronaryevents: of about 20 percent;, t'he4Lyear incidence
arnongthose who exhibited only one or two risk factors was much
lower, ranging fromi 0 to 3 percent. ECG changes andl anginal pain
\vere included in the definition of new coronary events.,
Paffenbarger, et al.(.4.2)'. evaluated coronary risk factors in the
stud~ of 3,263 longshoremen. They found that,, with the exception
of diagnosedl heart disease, smoking was the most important factor
predictive of'higlii risk for coronary rnortality:,
I Keys, et A (30) im the, study: of 279 Minnesota men, concluded
; that al positive, cold pressor test, elevated', serum cholesterol, andd
elevated systolic blood pressure had major predictive power for
('HD, death or infarction;! in their analysis smoking seemed less
important.
S'tamler (49) ~ has analyzed the data on 13' deaths.occurring dur-
ing, the first years of the Chicago Coronary Prevention Evaluation
Program,, which originally consisted of 519'. coronary-prone male
volunteers aged 40, to 59 who were free from clinical CHD'. Eleven
of the 13 decedents had three or more coronary risk factors at entry
into the program, and at least S' were cigarette smokers at the time
of death. Forty-three men, who were cigarette smokers at entry
into the Coronary Prevention Evaluation Program, gave up smok-
ing andl have remained active ini the program. There have beeni no~
dpaths fromi cardiovascular causes in this group. Stamler (49))
commented :°`Etven though the number of deced'ents was small,,
these data, strongly suggest that continued cigarette smoking is as=
sociated with very high risk of premature death for very coronary-
P rone men,, and that other preventive measures are by: themselves
of limited vallue for them as long as they fail to give up cigarette
smoking."'
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As described in the 1971 report, "The Health Consequences of.
Smoking"' (56),, some studies have indicated that smokers show
inereasedl leveIs, of serum lipids while others have not. Such contra- I
dictory results are also present in recent studies from Germany,
Poland~ and Sweden (,21; 39, 53).
After ai patient suffers a myocardial infarction, he frequently
gives up smoking (17, L6) . Only fragmentary data are avaiiable on,
what effect the cessation of' cigarette smoking might have oni the '.
likelihood of ai recurrent myocardi~al, infarction ( 9;,34, 43). ~Ninety-
two survivors of a first myocardial infarction were studied over a
3!-year period by Paras Chavero, et all (43). During this time, 37
patients continued smoking, and 12 of them (32 percent) experi-
enced a second myocardial infarction. The 51 patients who did not
smoke during this 3-year period included 39 ex-smokers and 12' pa-
tients who had!never smoked. Eight of the nonsmokers (16'percent)
experienced a second myocardial' infarction. The smoking habits of'
four of' the patients were not known. Although the continuing
smokers experienced a greater rate of recurrent myocardial infarc-
tioni than the nonsmokers, the difference was not statistically sig-
nificant (P =.07).
The role of genetic factors in the development of' CHD and' the
difficulties associatedl with the use of twin studies were discussed
in the 1971 report, "The Health Consequences of' Smoking" (56)~.
Mailed', questionnaires were used to establish the diagnosis of angina
pectoris in ai study by i,undtrnan, et all of twin pairs discordant wit'hh
respect to smoking habits and in a study by Liljefors of twins with
CHD. Lundman, et al. (36) recently investigated 69 male twins with
the diagnosis of angina pectoris established by questionnaire. Only
22 percent of'these diagnoses could be verifiedl byy clinical examina-
tion.
In a study of CHD, Liljefors (35)' studied 91 pairs of twins fromm
the Swedish Twin Registry ofl' 1967: The twins ranged in age' from
42'to 67 years, and 511 pairs were monozygotic. Smoking habits were
not significantly different in pairs discordant for the probable
presence of' CHD. However, Liljefors noted that ". .. in many pairs
the smoking habits were similar and that the material included few
pairs discordant with respect to~ smoking, so that it does not pro-
vide a suitable basis for conclusions as to the causal importance of
smoking for CHD'."' As observedl in the 1971 report, "'The Health
Consequences of Smoking"' (56), it would be surprising if' genetic
factors did not play a role in heart disease; however, it is open to
question whether findings from twin studies can be used to dis-
tinguish between ". . . the hypothesis that genetic factora govern
the level of host susceptibility or resistance to the effects of an exo.
genous influence such as cigarette smoking and the hypothesis t'hat't
genetic factors `cause" both heart disease and smoking:"'
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AUTOPSY STUDIES
In previously reported autopsy studies, Auerbach, et al. foundd
that aortic and eoronary; atherosclerosis in man were more common
and severe among smokers than among nonsmokers (5). They have
now extended their investigations to the myocardial arterioles of
men and beagle dogs (6). In a study of 1,184 meny they foundlthat
the thickness of myocardial arteriole walls was greater, on the
average, in smokers than nonsmokers (table 3). The thickness in-
creased witfii the number of cigarettes smoked' per day and with
age: The thickness was less; on the average; among cigar and pipe
smokers than among cigarette smokers, but it was greater than in,
rnen who had never smokedl regularly.
TABLE 3.-Fluman autopsy stzcdy, Comparison, ofthe thickness, of
myocardial arteriole walls in smokers and nonsmokers.'
Number of: Men Percent of Men
?:ge. $Grade $GradeIGrade $Grade tGrade, jGrade(year) Smoking Total 0 1 2.3 Total 0 1 2;3~
< 45: None 22'
Cigar, pipe 41
Cig.1-19 50
Cig.20-39 85
Cig. ?40 29
2 19 1 100.0 9.1 1 85.4 4.5
- 1 3 100.0 - fi25,0 -i75:0
1 31 18' 100.0 2.0 62A1 36:0
4, 35 46 100.0 4.7 41.2'54.1
- 10 19 100.0 - 34.5: 65.5
45-59 None 15
Cigar, pipe 13
Cig.1-19: 33
Cig.20-39 99
Cig. ?40 50
60-69 None 56
Cigar, pipe 35
Cig.1-19' 92
Cig,20-391 193
Cig. >_40 87
f-~! 70 None 32
Cigar, pipe 40,
Cig, 1L-19 30:
Cig.20-39 46'
Cig, ? 409~
1 112' 2 100.0 647 80.0 13'.3
- 8' 5 100:0 - 61.5 38.5 ~
- 17 16 100:0 - 51.5 48.5
- 35' 64 100.0 - 35,4 64.6
- 11 39 100:0 - 22.0 78.0
4' 36 16' 100.0
- 22' 13 10Q:0
- 44' 48' 1100.0
- 58 135 1100.0
- 21 66' 100.0
7.1 64.3' 28.6
- 62.9 37.1
- 47.8 52.2
- 30.1 69.9
- 24L1 75.9
2' 18 12' 1100.0
- 19 21 100.0
- 12' 18 100.01
- 12' 34 1100.01
- 3 & 100.01
6.3 56.2I 37.5
- 47.5 52.5'
- 40.0 60.0~
- 26.1 73.9
- t3!3.3' t66.7
In the right ventricular wall of 1,020 men by age and smoking habits.
t Percentagesi based on less.than.ten.eas~ss.,
I Four Paint Scale for the Thickness ofI Myocardial hrteriale Walls:
6-normal thickness; 1-sdight thickneset 2-moderate thickness; 3-great thicknesa.
SOURCE: Auerbach, 0., et al!, (6).
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In one: experiment, beagle dogs inhaled cigarette smoke daily
through tracYieostomae. Twenty-eight dogs that died between days
57 and 875: formed one group; 32; dogs that were killed after 875
days formed another group. Eight control dogs were not exposed.
Beagle myoeard'iaLarteriole walls were found'to~be thicker in smok-,
ing, than nonsmoking dogs, in dbgs smoking many cigarettes than
in dbgs smoking,fewer cigarettes; and in dogs smoking nonfilt'er cig-
arettes than in dbgs smoking filter-tip cigarettes (figure 1). Also;,
the thickness of arteriole~ walls increased with the duration of
smoking.,
Group N : :
No smoking •
8 Dogs
GroupL
Nonfilter
Cigarettes • «
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12 Dogs r. «
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Each dot represents one seetionL The three dots on a line represent the three
sections from a,particular dog.
FIGURE 1.-Canine : autopsy study. Comparison of the thickness of myocardial'
arteriole walls in 32' smoking dogs killed after 875 days and 8 nonsmoking
dbgs.
Souxe>z: Auerbachi 0., et al. (6).

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
NICOTINE AND CIGARETTE SMOKE'
Sehievelbein, et al. (47) investigated the effect of oral nicotine
administration over a 20-rnonth period on lipid metabolisrni in 35
rabbits. Even though lipoprotein lipase! levels and calcium content
of the aorta were sigtlificantly greater in the group given nicotine
than in the control group, the histological changes of' arteriosclero-
sis were found with equal frequency in both groups. The authors
concluded that the epidemiological correlations between CHD and
cigarette smoking could not be explained by the pharmacologic ef=
fect of nicotine alone:
A study of the interaction of chronic nicotine administration and
acute hypoxiai in 280, rats was performedl by Wenzeli and Richards
(60). Pretreatment of the rats with nicotine increased the mortality
during hypoxia, but the difference was not statistically signiificant.
Pretreatment with the nicotine also, was associlated! with marked
variability of regression of hypoxic heart lesions. The interaction
of nicotine pretreatment and the hypoxic insult produced variable
effects on myocardiall enzymes.
Aronow (1), recently studied the effect of' cigarette smoking on
the A wave of the apexcardiogram in 20 men with CHD. The A wave
reflects the lefti ventricular filling wave assoc'iatedl with the impact
of blood upon the ventricular wall during, left atrial contraction.
He found that the mean maximum increase in A wave ratio after
smoking was 34 percent for high-nicotine c'igarettes; 13 percent for
the low-nicotine cigarettes, and 6' percent for the non-nicotine ciga-
rettes. He ascribed these changes to increased myocardial ischemiaa
produced by cigarette smoking, which was reflected by a larger AA
wave ratio in the apexcardiogram. While nicotine appears to have
produced most of these changes, the observation that ai 6 percentt
increase occurred in the absence of nicotine suggests the possibility
that carbonimonoxide plays a role in this effect.
CARBON MONOXIDE
Because cigarette smoke contains from 2.7 to 6' percent carbon
monoxidis, (CO), sign'ifi~cantl:yhighercarboxyhemoglobin (CO!Hb'))
levels are found in smokers than, nonsmokers (13, 20; 2k',, 63). COHb
levels in nonsmokers are usually less than 1 percent, while those in
smokers average around 4 percent andl may: exceed' 15 percent (.4,,.
20, 561). Heavy smokers and those who inhale show the highest
carboxyhemoglobin levels (,20)!.
Haebisch (24) found that a smoker with a daily consumption of
35 to 40! cigarettes easily attains and maintains for hours an alveolar
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CO concentration of 50 p.p.m., which reaches or exceeds legalTy-
established ambient air quality standards (1k,18, 23, 24)i.
Cohen,, et a1.(13) and Aronow, et al. (2) have shown that there:
is no significant difference in mean expired air carbon monoxide
levels after patients have sInokedl tobacco or Iett'uce leaf' cigarettes.
Although pipe and cigar smokers in, the United States are reported
to have lower exposure to CO than cigarette smokers (,20 ), CO in-
toxication has been reported in cigar smokers (25)1.
C0' exerts its adverse effects on, the cardiovascular system of
smokers through; one or more of the following mechanilsms :(a) re.-
duction of the amount of hemoglobin available for oxygen trans-,
port; (b) shift of the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve to the
left with consequent interference in oxygen release at the tissuee
level; and (c) induction of arterial hypoxemiaL C0 may interfere
with the homeostatic, mechanism by which 2,3-DPG controls the
affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen, (56). CO has also, been implicated
in experimental atherogenesis in animals (56).
Ayres, et a1L (r), recently studied' 41 patients during diagnostic
cardiac catheterizations at which time they inhaled either 5 percent
or .1 percent C0: Arterial and mixed venous oxygen tensions were,
d'ecreasedl by administration of either concentration. In patients
with CHD;coronary artery 0~ extraction decreased 7:9 percent after
inhalation of .1I percent CO' and 30.5 percent after inhalation of 5'
percent C0. Some of the patients with CHDi experienced changes in
lactate and pyruvate metabolism indicative of inadequate myocar-
dial oxygenation. The higher level of CO' inhalation in this experi-
ment is comparable to that experienced intermittently by cigarette
smokers..
Brewer and his colleagues, (11); investigated cigarette smoking
as& a cause of hypoxemiaa in residents of Leadville, Colorado; at an
altitude of 3,100 meters. The arterial' pOz of 8 smokers was signif-
icantly lower (P < .05) than that of 12: nonsmokers, but this, was
reversible upon, cessation of smoking. They concluded that the ad-
verse effect of cigarette srnoking on 01, transport may be especially
pronounced at high altitude, andl may restrict an individual's ability
to adapt to reduced 0:, tensions (11, 12)..
Kjeldsen (31, 32) examined 993' industrial, workers, about one-
half of whom were tobacco workers. Fifty-nine cases of' arterio-
sclerosis were documented by such clinical symptoms as anginaa
pectoris and intermittent claudication or by a previous history of'f
myocardial infarction.While. 20!.9 percent of the 934! "controN' in-
dividuals were nonsmokers, only 2' (3:41 percent) of the.59 patients
with arteriosclerosis were: nonsmokers. A significantly higher per-
centage of diseased workers were heavy: smokers and inhaledl the
smoke.
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The diseased smokers had significantly higher carboxyhernoglobin
and serum cholesterol, levels than either smoking or nonsmoking
control patients:, This was true after standardizing for differences
in levels of smoking between controls and diseased patients. As ex-
pected, there was a gradient in carboxyhemogl'obin levels from
lower llevels& in light smokers to higher levels in~ heavy smokers
(table 4)..
TABLE 4.-Average values o f carboxyhemoglobin and serum choles-
terol in Danish srnokers and nonsmokers in, control group and
group of'patients with arteriosclerotic cardiova;scular disease.
Carboxyhemo¢]bbin
(saturation percentage). Serum cholesterol
(mg/TOO0 ml)'.
Smoking
category controls:
MtS.D. patients gignifi-
M'LS.D: cance controls
M'±S.D: patients
IK±S.D'. signifi=
eance
Smokers 4.2±3!1I 7.0±3.7 p<0.0o1 247±44 290±33 p<oL0q1
(738).1 (57) t-5:52 (738) (57) t-4.89.
hlbnsmokers' 0.4,±0:9 0.5±0.7' n.s. 236±49~ 284±56 p<0.02
(196), (2), t-o:16 (196) (2) t-2'.32
Light smokers, 2.5'±2:5' 3.7±2L5 n.s. 24',5±38' 279±67 n.s.
(121) (3) t-0:76 (121) (3), t-11,45.
Moderate 4.11±3!0 7.3'-!-3'.6' p<0.001 246±45 286±5(l p<0.001
smokers (463) (34) t=4.95 (4'63) (34) t-4.52
Heavy smokers 5.7±310 7.0±4ff n.s. 253±45: 298±53 p<0.05'
(154), (20)t-1.45 (T54) (20) t-2.18
pProbab'ility that ~differencee is ~. not ~. duee to ~ chance~.~.
t=~ Studemt's t ca)cu7ationi
n.s.. = not'.significantL
'Tihee numberr of ~.subjects~~ in.each category ~is~s enclosed in parentheses beneath the ~mean.
(M~) ~, and
standbrd~deviation.(S.D~.)~..
Sovaca: Kjeldsen, K. (31).
Kjeldsen also observed that the COHb levels of 8' to 19 percent
seeni in 40 percent of the patients, with arteriosclerosi'swereof'thesame magnitude as those
provoking experimental atherosclerosis
and cardiac necrosis in animals.
SMOKING A;I+iD, THROMBOSIS
Previous reports of' the Surgeon GeneraU on smoking and' healthi
have reviewedl the effects of smoking' on thrombus formation (54,.
55, 56). The' role of thrombosis in CHD remains an, active area of
investigation. kecent studies have not thus far yielded a unifyimg,
concept of the effect of smoking on thrombosis (33,, 41',iF8) .,
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CHOLESTEROL CONTENT OF TOBACCO' AhTD! TOBACCO SMOKE
Cholesteroll glucoside has not previously been reported in tobacco,
or in any other plant (10). Bolt and Clarke (10) investigated the
sterolini and sterol fraction of flue-cuired tobacco and found' that
cholesterol i's one of the major component&of the sterol fraction.
More recently, Grunwald, et al. (22) have confirmed that choles-
terol accounts for 10 percent of the total sterol in cigarette tobacco.
They also found that 8.6 percent of the total sterol content of' ci'ga-
refte smoke condensate was cholesterol. Thirteen percent of the
cholesterol present in cigarette tobacco was& transferred to the
condensate.
The biological significance of these findings remains, to be
determined.
CQR PULMONALE (P'ULMONARY HEART DTSEASE)~
The relationship between cigarette smoking and chronic obstruc-
tive bronchopulirnonary disease (COPD) with cor Ixiimonale was&
discussed' in the 1968 Supplement to "'The Health Consequences of
Smoking" (55)..
Although the extent of morbidity and mortality due to cor
pulmonale andl right heart failure is difficult to determine, CO!PD' is
often complicated by these conditions (27).
The Pulmonary Heart Disease Study Group~of the Inter-Society
Commission: for Heart Disease Resources recently summarized the
evidence linking cigarette smoking, with CO!PDD and concluded:
"'Cigarette smoking is the major cause of pulmonary heart disease
in that it is the most important cause of the chronic non*neoplastic
bronchopultnonary diseases in the United Stat'es"' (28).
CEREBR'OVASCULAR DISEASE
The 1971 report, "The Hlealth Consequences of Smokiing"' (56),
summarized the dlata linking smoking, to cerebrovascular disease as,
follows :
1. Dat'a from numerous prospective studies indicate that ciga-
rette smoking is associated with increased mortality from
cerebrovascular disease.,
2l Experimental evidence concerning the relationship of smok-
ing and cerebrovascular disease is at present insufl"icient to
allow for conclusions concerning, pathogenesis. However,
some of the pathophysiological considerations discussed con-
cerning CHD may also pertain to the relationship of smoking
and CVD; particularly cerebral infarctionL
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In the interim, additional reports have been published.
Dyken (15) performed a retrospective study on 285 patient's tivith
eerebrovascular disease in Elkhart„ Indiana. Even though low ciga-
rette consumption was noted ini all groups, males who had cerebral
infarctions smoked significantly more than controls.
Paffenbarger, et al. (42) found that smokers of more than 20:
cigarettes a day: faced a slightly increased but not significantly
greater risk of' dying from a stroke than those: smoking lesser
arnounts..
After 16 years follow-up, male cigarette smokers in the Framing=
ham study had more than three times the nonsmokers' risk of'devei-
oping a cerebral infarction (29). However, Ra:nnel' commented: "It
is not clear that smoking actuaTly affects the rate of cerebral athero-
genesis, and some other mechanism may be involved."'
PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE
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The 1I&71 report, "The Health Consequences of Smoking" (56)!,
summarized the data relating smoking, to: peripheral vascular dis-
ease as follows:
1. Data from a number of retrospective studies have indicated
that cigarette smoking is a likely risk factor in the develop-
ment of peripheral vascular disease. Cigarette smoking also:
appears to be a factor in the aggravation of peripheral vascu-
lar disease.
2. Cigarette smoking has been, observed to alter peripherall blood
flbw and periplieral vascular resistance.
Newly published studies add to our understanding of the effect of
nicotine or tobacco smoke on the peripheral circulatibn andl of the
significance of smoking, in peripheral vesseli atherogenesis.
Martz, etal. (37)1 observed that some! oftheappar~entlycon-
fllicting data on t'lie effects of nicotine upon the peripheral vascula-
ture may result from interpretations based upon indirect measure-
ments of microcirculatory; variables. Hence, they studied vascular
changes in a bat wing under direct microscopic observation. They
notiedl a marked increase in the diameter of innervated, minute
arteries with intraperitoneal nicotine administration, but this effect
was abolished with sympathetic denervation.
Asano and Branemark (3) installed a direct, microscopic obser-
vation chamber in the connective tissue of two human~ volunteers. I~I
One volunteer was ai "healthy" 20-year-old male nonsmoker: The
other volunteer was a diabetic who had'& been a smoker for five years
and who "_ . had no, apparent diabetic vasculopathy. " The effects
of tobacco~ smoking on the microcirculation of these volunteers in-
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cluded: ". .- vasoconstriction, decrease in blood fl'ow: rate and fre-
quency of' plasirra spacing, blocking, of' blood flbw in varyiug num-
bers of' nutritive capilllaries, shunting, of blood from arterioles too
venules...." These rniierocirculatory changes were said to result in
a decrease of nutritive blood flow in tissue.
As mentioned in the discussion of CHD, Kjieldsen ( 31, 32)~ stu&
ied several smoking patients with occlusive peripheral' vascular
disease whose COHb levels were significantly higher than those of'
control smokers. The levels of COHb in many of these patients were
comparable to those associated with experimental atherosclerosis
in animals. Astrup, et a11 Whave suggested that prospective stud-
ies shouldi be performed to investigate the rela.tionshiR between
COHb levels and the incidence of arterial disease.,
In the Prague study (;1'9)' intermittent claudilcation was signif-
icantly (P' < .01) more commoni among cigarette smokers than non-
smokers, Twenty percent of' the rneni ini the age group of 60 to 641
who were heavy srnokers (more than 25 cigarettes a day) had' inter-
mzttent claudilcation.
Raf (44)i reported' that all but 4 of the 98 patients admitted for
peripheral vascular surgery at the Karoline Hospital, Sweden, were
smokers.
1Vlathi,esen, et al. (38) in Denmark, followed' the spontaneouss
course of arterial'insufficiency in 211 patients. Cessation of smoking
increased the number of patients displaying spontaneouls improve-
ment.
ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES, THRCYMB'0!PHJ.EBIITIS,
AND SMOKING
Ini two studies from Great Britain and one fromi the United
States, it was reported that the use of'oral contraceptives was asso-
ciated with a significantly increased risk of d'eveloping venous
thromboembolism (.46; 58, 59). The British investigators also noted
in their initial report thatthe affected patientswere, on the average,,
heavier smokers than controls (58). Hbwever, after an additional
year of study„ a similar effect was not noted, and they concludedl
(59)i : ". .. the earlier difference between the smoking, habits of'the
two groups~can thus reasonabiy be attributed to chance (P' = 0.08') ."
The American investigator (45) found ". .. no evidence that smok-
ing, acting either independently or in conjunction with oral contra-
ceptives, is a factor in idiopathic thromboembolism."
Cigarette smoking has not been clearly demonstrated to be a fac-
tor that contributes to the.risk of idiopathilctlirornboembolism asso-
ciated with the use of oral contraceptives. Nevertheless, the
possibility that it may act to increase that risk has not yet been
completely ruled out.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT CAR'DIiOiV'ASC'ULAR'
INFORMATION
In addition to the comprehensive summary from the 1971 report,.
"The Health Consequences of Smoking'"' (56), cited earlier in this
chapter,, the following statements are made to emphasize the most
recent dleveloprnents in, the field :
ll. Recent epidiemiological studies from several countries con*
firm that cigarette smoking is one of the major risk factors'
contributing to the dlevelopment of' CHD. Avoidance of ciga-
rett'e smoking is of importance in the primary preventioni of
CHD.
2, Studies in man and animals have shown a greater lnyocardial'
arteriole wall thickness in smokers than nonsmokers.
3. Experimentai and' epidemiological investigations implicate
the elevat!ion, of carboxyhemoglobin levels in smokers as a,
contributor to, the development of CHD and arteriosclerotic
peripheral vascular di'sease..
4L Cigarette smoking, is considered to be the major cause of
pulmonary heart disease (cor pulmonale) in the United
States in that it is the most important cause of chronic non-
neopiastie bronchopulmonary diseases. Avoidanee of ciga-
rette smoking i's of importance ini the primary prevention of
pulmonary heart disease.
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Contents
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Page
Introduction ...................... 37
Epild'emiologiical' Studies, ................ . . . . ........... 38
COPD Mortality ................................. . . . . . 38'
CCyPD,Mbrbidity ................................... 39
Cessation of Simoking, ................................ 41
Occupational Hazards ................................ 42
Genetic Factors, ................................... 44
Pathological Sti'udies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Experimental Studies ..................... 45
Human Studies . . . . . . . . ............. 4!5
Animal Studies . . ................. ............... 46
flveraff Clearance ................................... 47
Phagocytosis .......................................... 47
The Surfactant System .............. .............. 48
Other Respiratory Disorders ............................ 48'
Highlights of Current Bronchopulmonary Information .... 48
References ............................................... 49'.
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INTRO'.DUCTI OIV
Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are the chronic bronchopul-
monary: diseases of greatest healtlii importance in the United States
(71). The 1971 report,, "'The Health Consequences of Smoking"
(70), summarized the relationship between smoking and these dis-
eases as' foldows :
1. Cigarette smoking is the most important cause of chronic
obstructive bronchopulmonary disease in, the United States..
Cigarette smoking increases the risk of' dying from pulmo-
nary emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Cigarette smokers
show an increased prevalence of respiratory symptoms, in-
cliiding cough„ sputum production, and breathlessness, when
compared with nonsmokers. Ventilatory function is. de-
creased in smokers when compared with nonsmokers:.
2. Cigarette smoking does not appear to be related to deat'h
from bronchiall asthma although it may increase the fre-
quency and severity of asthmatic attacks in patients al-
ready suffering from~ this disease.
3. The risk of developing or dying from CCIPD among pipe
and/or cigar smokers is probably higher than that among
nonsmokers while clearly less than that among cigarette
smokers..
4. Fx-cigarette smokers have lower death rates from C0!PD'1
than do continuing srnokers. The cessation of cigarette smok-
ing is associated' withi improvement in ventilatory function
and with a decrease in pulmonary symptom prevalence.
5. Young, relativeNy asymptomatic„ cigarette smokers show
I measurably altered ventilatoryfunetion whenicomparedlwith
nonsmokers of the same age.
6. For the bulk of the population of the United States, the im-
portance of cigarette smoking, as a cause of COPD is much
greater than t'hat of atmospheric pallutioni or occupational
exposure. However, exposure to excessive atmospheric pol
lution or dusty occupational materials, and cigarette smoking
may act jointly to produce greater COPD, morbidity and
mortality.
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7. The results of experiments in both animals and humansIave
demonstrated that the inhalation of cigarette snaoke, is asso-
ciated with acute and chronic changes in vent'ilatory fune-
t'ion and pulmonary histology. Cigarette smoking has been~
shown to: alter the mechanism of pulmonary clearance and
adversely affect ciliary functiion~,
8. Pathological studies have showni that cigarette smokers who
die of diseases other than COPD have histologic clianges
characteristic of COPD in, the bronchial tree and pulmonary
parenchyma more frequently than do nonsmokers.
9i Respiratory infections are more prevalent and severe among
cigarette smokers, particularly heavy smokers, than, among
nonsmokers.
10. Cigarette smokers appear to develbp, postoperative pulmo-
nary cornplications more frequently than nonsmokers..
Recent epidemiologieal, autopsy, and experiinent'al, studies con-
firm and extend'the foregoing statements.
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES
COPD IIWIORTALITY
Over ai period of 4t'o 8'8 years, Burrows and Earle (10), studied 200
patients with symptomatic COPD whose mean FEw,, was 1.0,t 0.4
liter. Ninety-seven percent of these! patients had a, history of ciga-
rette smoking; the average consumption for the entire group of 200
individuals was 23' eigarettes a day over a period of 41 years. Upon,
entry into the study, 59 percent were still regµlar smokers and 8'88
percent had discontinued smoking. Eighty-nine percent of the group
were males and the:mean, age was 59'.1, years.
A 47 percent 5-year mortallity: was observedl in these 200 patients,,
and most deaths were ". . . directly attributable t'o, the underlying
lung disease or one of its complications.'"' The relationship, of con'-
tinued smoking to the course of the disease was difficult t'o! interpret.
Patients who stopped smoking prior to ~ entry into the study had a
poorer survival than those who continued to use cigarettes. This was
related to a tendency for patient's to give up smoking when their
illness was severe, and ". .. the apparent advantage.of smokers was
eliminatedlwhen patients with similar FEVI levels were compared.'"'
The authors reported no reduction, of' mortalit'y in the group 1 of pa-
tients who stopped& smoking, even when smokers and ex-smokers
with similar FEVI levels were compared.
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Reduction of cigarette smoking was associated with a history of
reduced expectoration, smaller measured sputum volume, and
". .. a favorable course of the vital, capacity (P <.01).. .."
The 1971 report, "The Health Consequences of Smoking" (70),
included an analysis of the variety of' ways in which smoking may
be related to, disease. COPD was cited as an example in which smok-
ing, probably initiates a disease process by producing progressive,
irreversible damage. The 200 patients reported by Burrows and!
Earle (10„ 11) may be represent'at'ive of patients who have experi-
enced' progressive and irreversible pulmonary damage after many
years of exposure to cigarette smoke: In such cases, ". . . cessation
of'smoking leaves impaired functioni which does not improve appre-
ciably but does not continue to deteriorate from continued exposure
to cigarette smoke. However, such, function rnay deteriorate through
aging or through exposure to other harmful' agents" (7CJ ).
COPD' MORBIDITY
New reports of chronic broncl'iopulnaonary disease prevalence
support the findings of earlier studies in which a greater prevalence
was found among smokers than~ nonsmokers.
A repeat study of a Berlin, New Hampshire, population sample,
which included more than 1,500 individuals, was earried out in 1967
by Ferris,, et aL (27) . In both thi& survey and the earlier 11961 1 sur-
vey, a greater prevalence of chronic nonspecific respiratory disease
was found in cigarette smokers than nonsmokers.
The 1967 E'erlin~ study demonstrated that cigarette smokers whoo
inhaled deeply or moderately had generally higher prevalences of
chronic nonspecific respiratory disease than those who did not inhale
or inhaled only slightly.
After, standardization for age, sex, and smoking habits, the pre-
valence of chronic nonspecific respiratory disease in the 1967 survey
sample was slightly lower than in 1961. IThis may be accounted for
by a decrease in air pollution.
In a random sample of 609 residents of Glenwood Springs, Colo-
rado, a high prevalence of chronic bronchitis was found to be
strongly related to smoking, partieularlyof cig~arettes,,and this rella-
tilonship was independent of age, sex, or history of dust exposure at
work (52). Chronic airway obstruction was found to be predomi-
nantly a disease of elderly male smokers and increased in frequency
with increasing age after 49 ~ years.
The Tecumseh study is a well-known continuing epidemiologic
investigation of the entire community of Tecumseh, Michigan. In
this study the relationship of parental longevity to ventilatory
function and prevalence of' chronic nonspecific respiratory disease
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among sons was recently anal~zedi (17). D'eath, before age 6'5 of'
either parent was related to low valuesof 1-second forced expiratory
volume among the sons.lVlaternal deathi before age 65 was also asso-
ciated with increased prevalence of chronic bronchitis and emphy-
sema among sons. Some, but not all, of' these relationships were
accounted for by differences in smoking habits of the sons. The
authors also concluded: "The evidence strongly suggests that con-
stitutional factors are involved" (17).
A higher prevalence of chronic bronchitis was found among
smokers than nonsmokers (iP' <.011) in a study of 710 Vugoslaviani
workers (43). There was a direct relationship between the lifetime
number of cigarettes smoked and the presence of'chronic bronchitis:
Several papers have been published recently comparing respira-
tory symptoms such as cough and sputum production among
smokers and nonsmokers in different populations. Two of the new
studies were prospective investigations (15, 38). In all instances,
symptoms were more common among cigarette smokers than non-
smokers (1, 6, 8, 15, 3,8, 52, 63, 75)': In the three studies which re-
ported on pipe and cigar smokers, the frequency of' respiratory
symptoms inthis group was, in general, intermediate between those
of cigarette smokers and nonsmokers (6, 1'5, 52).
Results of studies of' pulmonary function ini representative sam-
ples of different populations ('6,,17, 38, 63), surveys of employees
(15, 43, 57), and normal volunteers (75) indicate that cigarette
smokers have lower average pulmonary function than nonsmokers.
Pulmonary diffusing capacity was found by Van Ganse, et al.
(72) ' to decrease in men and women with aging and with an increase
in current or lifetime cigarette consumption.
In general~ a dose-response relationship between cigarette con-
sumption and the development of respiratory symptoms and/or im-
paired pulmonary function was found in both men and women; as
cigarette consumption increased, these abnormalities were found
more frequently (6; 38, 52,, 72; 75)1.
Woolf'andl Suero (75), studied the respiratory effectis of cigarette
smoking in 298 normall women. The prevalence of cough,, sputum
productions wheezing, and shortness of breath increased progres-
sively with, inereasedl cigarette smoking. The results of the follow-
ing tests of pulmonary function were significantly lower in smokers
than in nonsmokers : forced vital capacity, forcedl expiratory vol-
ume in one second, maximal mid-expimatory flow, arterialized capil-
lary blood oxygen tension at rest, specific conductance, and pulmo-
nary diffusing capacity andl fractional uptake of' carbon monoxide
during exercise.
Seely, et al. (63) examined 365 high school' students in the New
Haven area. They found that students with 1 to 5 years"smoking ex-
perience had excessive cough, sputum production, and shortness of
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students may lead to development'all arrest of the lung. They feel
that follow-up pulmonary function studies in adolescents who stopp
smoking will help clarify this questiom
In al study of 556 high school, students from Oklahoma, Cit'y;.
Addington, et al. (1), report'ed, t'hat respiratory symptoms were sig.-
nificantly more frequent in smokers than nonsmokers, but no signif-
icant differences were noted in the FEV1 andl the mean vital
capacity.
Snider, et al. (65), investigatedl 1„403 patients with dbcumented
pulmonary tuberculosis for the presence of obstructive pulmonary
disease. Airway obstruction was found in 62 percent of white, men,.
37 percent of nonwhite men,, 36 percent of w ite women, and 17
percent, of nonwhite women., Sixty-eight percent of the patients
were current smokers and 15 percent were ex-smokers, Heavy
smoking had less effect on the presence of'a2rway obstruction than
advanced tuberculbsis or older age. These data: were interpretedl as
showing the predominant importanee of tuberculosis as a factor
leading to airway obstruction in~ tuberculous patients. However, the
authors also conclludedl: "The present data suggest the possibility
of'ani additive effect of'smoking with tuberculosis in producing air-
way obstruction.'"'
CESSATION OF SMOKING
The salutary effect of stopping cigarette smoking on COPD mor-
tali'ty and morbidity has: been noted in previous reports of the
SlZrgeon General (,69; 70):.
A recent statement from the "'Pulmonary Heart Disease Study
Group"' of' the Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease Re-
sources (41) also emphasized this point: "The overwhelming cause
and effect relationship between smoking, bronchitis-emphysema and~
pulmonaryheart disease is such that there is little doubt that a radi-
cal reduction or elimination of the cigarette habit would result in al
greatly lbwered incidence of the chronic respiratory diseases and
cor pulmonale "'
In recent studies, a decrease in the prevallence of respiratory
symptoms among ex-cigarette smokers has beeni demonstrated (10;.
15, 75) . Higgins, et al. (38) interpreted data from 1957 and 1966
surveys of'chronic respirat'ory disease in England as suggesting,that
the benefits of giving, up smoking on respiratory symptoms are: less
in those who have smoked for many years than in those who have
smokedl for shorter periods.
Baker, et al. (5')' undertook a therapeutic program for previously
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unrecognized mild to moderate cases of COPDi.. One hundred t'hirty-
four men were included in this study. Eighty-five percent of these
men were cigarette smokers, 11 percent were ex-smokers, and 4 per-
cent were nonsmokers. At the 6-month follow-up, 61 subjects were
still in the treatment program. Patients were encouragQd to stop
smoking, and at the 6-month follow-up 34 percent of the cigarette
smokers had stopped smoking, while 34 percent decreased their
cigarette consumption by at least half. At the follow-up evaluation,
approximately two-thirds of those who either gave up smoking or
decreased their cigarette consumption showed improvement in
symptoms. Thirty percent of those whose smoking habits did not
change showed improvement in symptoms. No significant differ-
ences were found in the pulmonary function studies at the fol'low-up.
evaluation. A]t'erationi of smoking habits was the single factor most
closely related to symptomatiie improvement.
OCCLTPATTOIQAL I`IAZARDS'
As observed by Bouhuys and Peters (7), the relative contribu-
tions of cigarette smoking and industrial' exposure to the loss of
lung function may at times be difficult to determine.
Recent studies ini wool,,textile; grain elevator, shipyard, pulp mill',,
steel, andlundergroundlmining industries have documented a higher
prevalence of chronic bronchitis among cigarette smokers than non-
smokers (9, 13; 19„20, 39, 42, 47, 50). Similar, sstudies in steell„ pulp
mill, machine shop, and welding industries indicate a greater fre-
quency of respiratory symptoms and/or diminished pulmonary
function in smokers than in nonsmokers (22, 23, 30, 39)~.
Japanese investigators recently reported that former employees
of a poison gas factory had a high prevalence of chronic bronchitis
and' expiratory slowing; a history of chronic bronchitis was ob-
tained from 67 percent of smoking rnen and 47 percent of nonsmok-
ing men who had manufactured mustard gas or lewisite ( 5.4 ).
In recent months severall articles have been published on coall
workers" pneumoconiosis. Because coal miners are not allowed to
smoke at work, they must smoke their cigarettes during a short'er
period of time thani non*miners ; nevertheless, the average coal
miner smokes as many cigarettes a day as does the non-miner (51)'..
Thus, his exposure tends to be more intense during the periodi ini
which he is smoking. Allso, the documentledl hazard of chronic expo.
sur'e to coal dust may be compounded by the deleterious effect of
smoking on ciliary function.
Ashford, et al. (4)i studied approximately 30,000 working, coal
miners in Great Britain. Their data suggest that smoking and pneu-
moconiosis act, independently in the ! production of pulmonary symp-
toms.
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A tota.l of 801 working, anthracite coal miners from Pennsylvania
were investigated by Tbkuhata, et all ( 68 )., Twenty-four percent of
the smoking miners had pulmonary function impairment as com*
pared with 11 percent of miners who did: not smoke. Because the
smokers developedi their pulmonary function abnormalities after a
much shorter underground work exposure, the, authors suggested
that smoking may significantly accelerate the: development of
pneumoconiosis among coal miners:Rasmussen and' 1Velson (61) studied 368 soft-coal miners from
the Southern Appalachian coal fields., Al'll workers includedl in the
study had been involved in the coal industry for at least five years.
Miners with a smoking history of 30, pack-years or more showed a
significant (P <.011), reduction of FEVI when compared to non-
smoking miners. Impairment of oxygen, transfer was greater in bothi
the 15 to 291.9 pack-year group and the 30' plkzs pack-year group than
among the lifelong nonsmokers ( P' G.01) .
One hundred sixty-two dyspneic soft-coal miners, who gave his-
tories of lifelong abstinence from cigarette smoking, were examined
by Rasmussen (60). Of these patients, 85.6 percent had some X-ray
evidence of pneumoconiosis. The group as a whole was ". .. not rep-
resentative of all coall miners, nor of all symptomatic coal miners."
Even thou~gh 56 percent of these, miners had "normal" ventilatory
capacities, i.e:, an. FEV, whichi was 75 percent or greater of the
predicted normal vital capacity, more than 90' percent had an
alveolar-arteriall oxygen gradient during exercise which exceeded
19.9 mmHg. In more than 95 percent of the "'normal" group„ this
gradient was not associated with significant arterial oxygen, desatu-
ration during exercise: The loss of pulmonary function in the entire
group ofnon-cigarette smokers was somewhat less than that found
in a group of miners composed of cigarette smokers and non-
smokers ; nonetheless, these find~ings demonstrate that, in the ab-
sence of cigarette smoking, coal dust exposure may be associated
with abnormalities in oxygen transfer during exercise, despite the.
presence of a normal FEVl,
An autopsy study of 144 Appalachian coal miners was carried out
by Naeye, et al. (53). Several parameters of cardiac and pulmonary
structure were examined with regard to the effect of smoking. The.
volume of pulmonary macules and nodules contain2ng, coall dust and
the concentration of silica cryst'als and collagen in these macules.
and nodules were unrelated to srnoking. Right ventricular, hyper-
trophy, defined according to an index developed by Naeye, was pres-
ent in all groups ofrniners but was more! severe in the bituminou&
workers who smoked cigarettes. The emphysema index, which is a
measurement of the percent of llung tissue comprised of abnormall
air space, was determined only in bituminous coal miners. It was
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significantly greater in cigarette smokers than in nionsmokers.
Goblet ce11'1 hyperplasia, which appeared to be present in the entire
group, was somewhat greater in the bituminous coal rniners who
smoked than in the nonsmokers, but the differences were not statis-
tically significant. Several investigators have concluded that eigarette smoking by:
itself is more important in the production of respiratory disease,
other than pneumoconiosis, among coal miners than is exposure to
coal, dust (24, 34, , 58y 68). Rasmussen questions this view (60)i.
There is no consensus in recent publications on what role cigarette
smoke may play in the development of coal workers'' pneumoconio-
sis (2k',, 5l', 53, 58, 6'8)~.
Weiss (73')' examined 10'0, asbestos textile workers and found aa
greater prevalence of pulmonary fibrosis among; cigarette smokers
than nonsmokers. The prevalence increased' with increasing amount
and duration of cigarette smoking and with increasing durationi off
exposure to asbestos.
GEIVETIC FACTORS
An infrequent genetic error, homozygous alpha,-antitrypsin de-
ficiency, has been commonly associated with the premature develop-
ment of severe; panacinar emphysema. It is postulated that alpha,-
antit'rypsin is essential to protect the lung against the destructive
action of' naturally occurring proteinases (36).
Related questions of current interest deal with the!prevallence and
significance of' the heterozygous deficiency state (intermediate
serum antitrypsin deficiency)' and the, interaction of' smoking with
the severe! and intermedliate deficiency: states. Mittman, et al. (49)
recentl reviewed the limited data available on the smoking habits of'
patients with alphal; antitrypsin deficiency; the cigarette smoke ex-
posure of patients with the intermediate deficiency appears to be
greater than that of'patienta's with the severe deficiency.
Cigarette smoking has been reported to be a possible precipitating;
factor in the development of COPD in the homozygous deficiency
state (40). Some studies (26,, 44, 49, 67) have demonstrated an
association between the heterozygous deficiency state and the devel-
opment of COPD', while other studies have not (35,62)~. Mittmans
et al. (49), have suggested that the intermediate deficiency may
predispose to lung disease by accent'uat'ing an individualPs suscepti-
bility to the harmful effects of external' irritants. Whether or not
cigarette smoking acts together with the hornozygous or hetero-
zygous deficiency states to: increase the risk of developing either
panacinar emphysema or the more common forms of'COPD has nott
been adeqlaately studied.
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PATHO'LOGI!CAL STUDIES
fn previous investigations, a correlation has been found between
cigarette smoking and the histologiic changes characteristic of
bronchitis and! emphysema (;70) .
An autopsy study of' 60, patients with COPD was performed by
Cullen, et al. (16). Although they did not find a correlation between
the smoking history, total emphysema score, type of emphysema, or
bronchiali histologic features,, the authors noted that only three pa-
tients were non-cigarette smokers. These three patients were pipe!
or cigar smokers. Eight patients who had stopped smoking three.
years before death had the same bronchial histologic abnormaliities:
as those who continued smoking until death. This suggests that the
bronchial abnormalities hadl become irreversible at the time of
smoking cessation.
Diu~nnill and Ryder ('21') carried out a quantitative study of the
relationship, between chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and smoking.
The ltings of 353 patients were examined at autopsy, and a smoking
history was available in 1'79' cases. A small but significant (P' <.005)i
difference was found between smokers andi nonsmokers in the per-
centage volume of bronchial mucous glands. Emphysema, mainly
the centrilobular type„was found significantly (P <.001) more fre-
quently in men and women smokers than nonsmokers, and it oc-
curredl at a much younger age in the smokers:.
EXPERI'1VI'ENTAL STUDI'ES.
HUMAN STUDIES
Anderson (3) observed in a few: patients withi andl without COPD
that cigarette smoking can produce V/Qi, (ventilation/perfusion)
changes resulting in a significant average! drop in PaO, (parti'all
pressure of oxygen in arterial blood) .
Clarke, et all. (1k) studied the bronchoconstrictor effect of' plain
and', filtered cigarettes in 16 men. Filtration of eit'herthe particuTate
or vapor phase of the smoke had a similar effect in reducing the
bronchoconstrictor response to cigarette smoke inhalation.
Using a reference cigarette developed by the University of
Kentucky, Diamond, et al. (18) measured pulmonary expiratory
resistance immediately after smoking. Heavy smokers, whose con-
trol resistance values were significantly higher than those of mod-
erate or nonsmokers, had' a. decrease in resistance, while nonsmok-
ers had an, increase. Although selected ventilatory function tests did
not change significantly after smoking, the author noted that the
methods usedl in this studyy are probably not sensitive enough to
measure constriction in peripheral airways, where smoking is
thought to exert an adverse effect,
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ANIMAL STUDIES
Frasca, et al. (32) made electron microscopic observations in
areas of fibrosis and emphysema of' the lungs of dogs, which had
been subjected to experimentall cigarette smoking as reporta'ed~ by
Hammond, et al. (37). Details of the smoking procedure were re-
viewed in the 1971 report, "'The Health Consequences of Smoking"'
(70). The maj or findings in the study of Frasca, et al. were : a com-
plete lioss ormarked redllctionin the numberof alveolar septallcapiL
laries; a marked thickening of the alveolar septa, due to increasedd
amounts of collagen,, thickening of the plleural st'roma due t'o large
amounts of collagen, and the presence of increased numbers off
macrophages in both, the pleura and parenchyma. Many of these
macrophages were filled with: pleomorphic cytoplasmic inclusions.
Crystalline-like structures were found in membrane-bound inclu,
sions and ferritin-like particles occurred both in large membrane-
bound aggregates and lying free in the cytoplasmLFlint, et al. (29) reported a siguificant increase
in the number of
polymorphonuclear leukocytes recoverabl'e from the lungs of guineaa
pigs following exposure of these animals to cigarette smoke. B'e-
cause no changes in serum alpha,-antitrypsin levels were found~ in
this setting, the authors hypothesized that an imbalance mayy occur
between proteolytic enzymes released by polymorphonuclear
leukocytes an6 the inhibitors of these, enzymes.
The stress effects of forced mouth-breathing and inhalation of
cigarette smoke on lung rnitochondrial phosphorylation were studied
in the guinea pig by Kyle and Riesen (45). Mouth-breathing alone
was associated with impaired efficiency of phosphorylation at two
mitochondrial loci, while mouth-breathing guinea pigs exposed to
cigarette smoke lost efficiency at ondy one of these sites.,
Aviadb and coworkers have studied! the effects of hormones on
the pulmonary response to cigarette smoke inhalation and intra-
venous nicotine injection. Subcutaneous progesterone administra-
tion, prior to nicotine or smoke exposure, reduced the bronchocon-
stri,ctor response in rats (64). A simila.r, eexperiment involving
pretreatment of'dogs with glucocorticoids resulted in variable bron-
choconstrictor responses after exposure to cigarette smoke (12).
Nitrogen dioxide (NOJ, a gas found in cigarette smoke and some!
industrially polluted air, can destroy cellular, mmembranes and sub-
cellular structures (25). Continuous administration of low concen-
t'rations of NO2 in rats has prodt2cedl an emphysema-like disease
(66). Falk has suggested'that NO2 may ". .. carry a major responsi
bility for the high incidence of emphysema in cigarette smokers"'
(25).
Stephens, et al. (66) ~ examined ultrastructurallchanges in puhno-
nary connective tissue of'rats exposed to 2 to 20 p.p.m. of NO2 for
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varying periods of time. In the absence ! of significant cell destruc-
tion, striking alterations in both collagen fibri'ls and' basement mem-
branes were found.
QVERAiLL CLEAItANCE,
Pavia, et al. (55, 56) examined'the effect of cigarette smoking,on
the mucociliary mechanism of'the human llung. A temporary slow-
ing of mucociliary clearance was found in a group of 22' elderly
smokers (56). Eight of these subjects had mild restrictive impair-
ment and two had airway obstruction. When percentage clearance
by elderly cigarette smokers and' nonsmokers was compared, sig-
nificant differences were not demonstrable (55). In the latter study,,
patients with functional evidence of lung, disease were not included.
I3epositioni and clearance of inha~led2/L partieles, of iron oxi~d~ela-beled with 198Au were studied
in 19 young, normal subjects by
Lourengo, et al. (46). While tracheobronchial clearance began im-
mediately after inhalation in nonsmokers,, it was delayed for periods
of 1 to 4 hours after inhalation in, smokers.
Frances, et al. (31) studiedl the effect of cigarette smoke on par-
ticle transport on donkey nasociliary mucosa. This mucosa was
found to be much more resistant to the efPects of cigarette: smoke
thanthat in the donkey tracheobronchial tree.lVlore recently, Albert,,
et a1. (2) published a report that in one of three donkeys tolerance!
to cigarette smoke had developedi in the tracheobronchial mucosa.
Weissbecker, et alL (74Y examined in vavo mucus flow rates in
cats exposed to cigarette smoke gas phase of varied composition.
Several compounds, e.g., isoprene and nitrogen dioxide, when addedd
in combination to the gas phase, were effective in reducing thes mucus flow, compared to the effect
of' th& gas phase alone. Other
compounds, e.g., C0, diminished the mucostatic effect of' the gas
phase: Compounds producing mucostasis were ineffective when
added to cigarette smoke. These experiments indicate that effects
observed from pure compounds cannot be used to predict the effect
of cigarette smoke on mucus transport.
PFIAGOCYTOSIS
The recent literature concerning the effect of tobacco smoke : on
macrophage function, is reviewedi in the chapter on allergy of this
report.
Pratt, et al. (59), have extended, their studies on the ultrastruc-
ture of' human alveolar macrophages: r1+Iacrophages obtained from
smokers tend' to contain more heterogeneous inclusions than those
from nonsmokers. Angular and needle-like struct'ures were observed
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only in the inclusions of smokers. The authors concludled that these,
structures ". .. rnay represent undigested smoke products,..."'
In an investigation of early emphysema found in patients who
were autopsied, McLaughlini and Tueller (48) found brownish, pig-
mented alveolar macrophages in, the intact parenchyma adj acent to
areas of emphysema. Such macrophages were not found in normal
lungs, but were found in sputum specimens of ". .. apparently
healthy cigarette smokers." In heavy smokers many of the macro-
phages also contained iron particles.
THE SURFACTANT SYSTEIVL
Giammona,, et al. (33) measured the surface t'ension of lung ex-
tracts andl bronchiall washings of' dogs following exposure to ciga-
rette smoke. Elevated minimali surface tension values were found
in bronchial washings obtained from three dogs. The values re-
mained ellevated for 48' hours after the cigarette smoke exposure;
the values obtained one week after the cigarette smoke exposure
were normal. The: surface tension, measurements of lung extracts
obtained from four autopsied dogs were normai!.
OTH!ER RESPIRATORY DISORDERS
Finklca„ et al. (~28), studied acute, noninfluenzalrespiratory dis=ease in military cadetsiand
found significantly higher incidence rates
for acute upper, and lower respiratory illness among cigarette
smokers than nonsmokers. Intermediate rates were found for
lighter cigarette smokers, cigar, pipe, and ex-smokers:
HIGHLIGHTS'. OF CURRENT BRON'CHaP'ULMONARY
I'NFOR'1VIATIOIrT
In addition to the comprehensive summary from the 1971 report,
"The Health Consequences of' Smoking"' (70) ,, cited earlier in this
chapter, the following statements are made to emphasize the, most
recent developments in the field :
1. Recent epidlemiologicall and clinical studies from several
countries confirm that men and women cigarette smokers have
an increased prevalence of respiratory symptoms and have
diminished pullmonary function compared to nonsmokers.
2. Investigations of high school students have demonstratedthat
abnormal pulmonary function and pulinonary symptoms are
more common in smokers than nonsmokers.
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3. Recent occupat'iomali studies confirm that cigarette smoking is
an' important cause of COPD, acting both independently and
in' combination with occupational' exposure..
4. Recent experimental studies confirm that cigarette smoking
exerts an adVerse effect on pulmonary clearance and rnacro,
phage function.
5. Pulmonary macrophages obtained from cigarette smokers ex-
hibit characteristic morphologic differences when compared
to those obtained from nonsmokers.
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Contents.
Pag~e
Lung Cancer 59
Epidemiologicall Studies ............................. 60
Experimental Aspects ............................... 65
Other Cancers ........................................... 67
Cancer of'the Larynx ............................... 68
Oral Cancer ........................................ 68
Cancerof'the Esophagus .............................. 70
Cancer of the Urinary Bladder .................... 72
Cancer of'the Pancreas .............................. 74
Highlights of Current Cancer Information ................ 74
References .............................................. 75
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1.-Some ~iniitiating, agents~ in~ two-stage earcinogenesis~~ 6&
LIST OF' FIGURES
Figure 1.-Lung cancer mortality ratios of Japanese males
by amount smoked ..................................... 61
Figure 2'..-Relative risk: of lung cancer in ex-smokers, of
cigarettes by l+ength of cessation before diagnosis ....... 6&
Figure 3,-Relative risk of Iung cancer in ex-smokers of cig=
arettes, by length of cessation and previous duration of
smoking .............................................. 64
Figure 4.-Relative risk of cancer of the oral cavity, pharynx,
larynx„ and esophagus associated with smoking and chew-
ing in various forms ............................... 70
Figure 5.-Death rates for cancer of't'lie esophagus in Jap-
anese males& by smoking and drinking characteristics .... 71
Figure 6. Relative risk of urinary bladder cancer for males
by amount smoked ................................... 72
Figure 7.-Relative risk of urinary bladder cancer for fe-
males by amount smoked ............................ 73
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LUNG CANCER
.
Cigarette smoking has been established as the major cause of
lung cancer. The 1971 report,, "The Health Consequences of Stnok-
ing"' (39), in summarizing this associationy concluded :
1. Epidemiological evidence derived from a number of' prospec-
tive and retrospective studies coupled with experimental and
pathoiogiicall evidence confirms the conclusion that cigarette
smoking, is the main cause of lung cancer in men. These stud-
ies reveal that the risk of developing lung cancer increases
with the number of cigarettes smoked per d'ay, the dtzrat'ion~
of' smoking,, and' earlier initiation, and diminishes with ces-
sation of smoking.
2. Cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer in women but
accounts for a smaller, proportion of the cases than in men..
The mortality rates for women who smoke, although signif-
icantly higher than for female nonsmokers, are lower than
for men who smoke. This difference may be at least partially
att'ributed to difference in exposure : the use of fewer ciga-
rettes per day, the use of'filtered and low "'tar"' cigarettes;, and
lower levels of inhalation. Nevertheless, even when womenn
are compared with meni who apparentPy have similar levels
of exposure to cigarette smoke, the mortality ratios appear
to be lower in women.
3. The risk of deveioping lung, cancer among pipe and/or cigar
smokers is higher than for nonsmokers but significantly lower
than for cigarette smokers.
4. The risk of developing,lung cancer appears to be higher among
smokers who smoke high "tar" cigarettes or smoke in~ such a
manner as to produce higher 1levels of "tar" ' in the inhaledd
smoke.
5. Ex-cigarette smokers have significantly lower death rates for
lung cancer than continuing, smokers. There is evidence to
support the view that cessation of smoking, by large numbers
of cigarette smokers would be foilowed by lbwer lung eancerr
death rates,
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6'. Increased d'~eatlii rates from lung, cancer have been observedd
arnong urban populations when compared with populations
from rurali environments. The evidence concerning the role of
air pollution in the etiology of lung, cancer is presently incon
clusive: Factors such as occupational and smoking habit dif -
ferences may also contribute to the urban-rural difference
observed. IDeta2ledl epidemiologic surveys have shown that the
urban factor exerts a small infl'uence compared to the over-
riding effect of cigarette smoking in the development of' lung,
cancer.
7. Certain occupational exposures have been found to be asso-
ciated with an increased risk of dying from lung cancer..
Cigarette smoking, interacts with these exposures in the
pathogenesis of lung,cancer so as to produce very much higher
lung cancer death rates in those, cigarette smokers who are
also exposed to such substances.
8. Ekperirnental st'udieson animals utilizing skin painting,
tracheal instillation or irnplantation„ and' inhalat'ion of ciga-
rette smoke or its component compounds, have confirmed the
presence of complete carcinogens as vwell as tumor initiators
and promoters in tobacco smoke. Lung cancer has been found',
in dogs exposed to the inhalation of cigarette smoke over a
period of more than two years.
In the interim, additionali epidemiological, pathological, and ex-
perimental studies have added to our understanding of these rela-
tionships..
EBIDEMIOLOGICAL SrUDIES
The majior prospective epidemiolbgical studies to: date, demon,
strating associations between cigarette smoking, and specific dis-
eases, were conducted primarily in the United States, Canadh, and'
Great Britain in Caucasian populations, A large, prospective study
currently in progress in Japan adds to the weight of evidence sup-
porting a causal relationship between cigarette smoking and lung
cancer. It is the first large-scale prospective study to be conducted in
a population characterized by genetic, diet'ary,, behavioral, an& cu1.-
tural intiuences distinctively different from those in previously ex-
amined Western populations. The! 3=year, preTiminary prospective!
d'ata~ forlung; cancer f rom this p~opulation of 265,118~ adults in Japan
(10) demonstrate overall effeets and dbse-response relationships
similar to those observed in previous studies (figure 1) .
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The mortality ratio for male smokers of 1 to 9 cigarettes a day
was 2'.7' and rose to ~ 24.8 for smokers of more tfiani 2' packs a day.
The mortality ratio was 6.9' for ex-smokers. Of the 122,261 men in
the study, 74.3 percent were daily smokers, 3,4 percent were ex-
smokers, and 19.1 percent nonsmokers. The percentage of males
who were daily smokers decreased with' advancing, age.
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Number of cigarettes smoked per day
6.9
Ex.
FicultE 1. Lung, cancer mortality ratios of Japanese males by amount,smoked:
SomtcE: Hirayama„T. (10).
In a prospective study of 12,322 Czechaslovakian males, Kubik,
et ali (19) analyzed various factors associated~ with the develop-
ment of lung cancer. During the 31/2-year follow-up period, 61 cases
of lung cancer were discovered. The incidence of lung, cancer'among
males aged 40 to 64 was 460/1I00,000i among heavy cigarette
smokers (more than 200,000 lifetime cigarettes),, 90/100,000 for
light cigarette smokers (less than, 200,000 lifetime cigarettes), and
1!0!/100,000 for nonsmokers. There were no cases of l'ung' cancer
among, the 222' smokers of pipes and cigars.
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In tlie past 50 years Poland has experienced a rise in cigarette
consumption and, more recently, a sharp rise in the incidence of and
mortality from lung cancer (16; 3'4:.). In the 5-year period between.
19'63 and 1967;, the mortalit'y rate fromi lung cancer for men rose
from 33'.01 to 49.1 per 100,000. This increase was more pronounced
in urban areas. Lung cancer has been the leading, cause of deathh
fromi malignant neoplasms in Polish meni since 1959.
Additional studies conducted in Germany (26), Lebanon (1'),,
Scotland (6), and Sweden, (37) have demonstrated a strong, asso-
ciation between cigarette smoking, and lung cancer.
Rimington: (28), examined the smoking habits and sputum pra-
ductionof 21,579 British males aged 40 an&ollder who were screenedl
for lung cancer by X-ray examinatiom During,t'he folllow-up periodl
of 36 t'o 56 months, 64 new cases of' lung cancer were identified.
Because chronic bronchitis and lung cancer ame both associated withi
cigarette smoking, the data were standardized by cigarette con-
sumption categories. An increase ini both lung cancer andl chronic
bronchitis was demonstrated with increasing consumption, but for
each levell of smoking, there was a higher incidence of lung cancer
among the: individuals with chronic bronchitis than among, those
without this condition. Standardization with respect to age showed
that the differences ini lung cancer incidence between those with
and without chronic bronchiti's couldl not be accountedl for by the
increase seen in these diseases withi advancing age. It was concluded
that persons who smoke run a higher risk of chronic bronchitis than
nonsmokers and those smokers who develop chronic bronchitis run
a higher risk of developing lung cancer than smokers without
chronic bronchitis. The relationship between lung, cancer and
chronic bronchitis was not demonstrated for pipe, smokers.
Graham and Levin (7) examined the: effect of cessat'ioni of ciga-
rette smoking on, the risk of' developing lung cancer in a, retrospec-
tive study of 700 lung cancer patients. The risk of developing, lung
cancer in ex-smokers declined sharply after cessation (figure 2)1.
The decline: occurred both in those who smoked for less than 31
years and those who had smoked 31 years or more (figure 3). Those,
who had smoked for less than 31 years had a lower risk of lung
cancer folIowing cessation than those withi the longer smoking his=
tory in each category: of' time follbwing, cessatilon. Although there
was an appearance of a somewhat more rapid rate of decline in risk
withi time.following cessation for those who smoked for the shorter
period, the difference was not statistical'1y significant. The relative
risk for the development of lung cancer for pipe and cigar smokers
was 2:6. The reduction in risk following cessation of these forms off
smoking was not examinedL
The relu.tionship of smoking to lung cancer in women, has recently
beeni examine& by severall authors. The smoking patterns of 142;857
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Japanese women were described by Hirayama (10) . Only 10.9! per-
cent were daily smokers of cigarettes. Women started smoking at
an older age than men and, in contrast to Western populations, there
was a higher percentage of smokers in, the older age groups tltan,
among younger women. The mortality rates were lower for women
than for men, but a dose-response relationship was demonstrated.
The lhng cancer mortality ratio for women smokers of 1 to 9 ciga-
rettes a day was 2.65 and rose to 3.1!4 for smokers of 20 to 24 ciga-
rettes a day compared to nonsmokers.
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Cases 18 65 19 12' 5 2
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Months Never 0,'6 7-12 1'3-36 37! 120 >T20
Smoked
(Smoked cigarettes only or with other forms, and,stopped alll).
FIGURE 2:-ReTative risk of lung cancer in ex-smokers of cigarettes by length
of' cessation before diagnosis.
SoUttcE. Grahamy S., Levin, M. L. (7).
In two recent investigations (3; 13)i, both similar in desigz'1s the
authors described higher rates of lung cancer among Jewish women
in Pittsburgh and Montreal than among Catholic and, Protestantt
controls. The proportion of' epidermoid and anaplastic carcinomas&
was found' to be lower for the 87 Jewish women with lung, cancer, in
these studies than for the non4ewish women. A survey of smoking
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habits in~ t'he twa cities suggested that the increased incidence of'
lung, cancer in Jewish women coulld~ notbe entirely attributed to'
variations in smoking patterns. A low: incidence of lung, cancer was
foundl among', Jewish males, and this was correlated with their low
cigarette consumption.
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FcGUttE 3.-Relative risk of lung cancer in ex-smokers of cigarettes by length of
cessation and previous durat'ion of' smoking,
SUU1tCE: Grahamj S., Levin, M. L. (7)~.,
The' increased risk for the development of lung cancer among
uranium miners is well, established. The 197,1 report,, "The Health
Consequences of Smoking" (39), summarized the recent investiga-
tions in this area.The'. histologic types o'fl' 121 cases of lung cancer
in Ameriican uranium miners were studied by Saccomanno,, et all.(3Q) using the WHO: classification
of lung tumors. A markedl in-
crease was noted~ ini the small celll undifferentiated types with in-
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creasing radiation exposure. The author examined the role of
tobacco in the etiology of these tumors stating, ". .. among uranium
miners, cigarette smoking is a potent co-earcinogen in the cause of
lung cancer, but exerts little,, if any,, influence on the cell type of
lung cancer-. .'"
EEXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS
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Chemicals present in the particulate phase of tobacco smoke have
been tested for their carcinogenic potent'ial ini experimental animals
and/or tissue and organ cultures and have been grouped according
to the type of activity observed. On mouse skins certain chemicalss
induce tumor formatiion and are called complete carcinogens; others
appear to act only: in conjunction with additionat treatment, andd
are referred to as incomplete carcinogens. They include tumor initi-
ators and tumor promoters: Tumor initi•ators induce an irreversible,
change in epidermal cells which causes them to respond to subse-
quent applications of tumor promoters with the development of skin
tumors. This two-stage mechanism of carcinogenesis, welli known
for mouse skin, has not been demonstrated in other animal species or
tissuesund'er comparablecondit'ions.,
Hoffmann and Wynder (11, 44) discussed the major initiators i
and promoters found in cigarette smoke and described ani additionall
property of acceleration possessed by: N-alkylated carbazoles,
N-alkylat'ed' indales, and Transr4„ 4'-dichlorostribene. ( DCS) which ;
is al pyrolysis product of the insecticides DDT and DDD: These
compounds are inactive as complete carcinogens, infrtiat'ors, or pro-
moters but accelerate the initiator-promoter activity of polynuclear
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH).
The initiating, activity of' polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in,
two~stage carcinogenesis was investigated and reviewed by Van
Duuren, et al. (41). Several compounds previouslythought to be of
little or no significance in tobacco: carcinogenesis have been found
by Van Duureni and other independent invest'igators to be tumor
initiators. Table 1 lists a number of these compounds. Tumor pro-
moting agents probably allow these weak carcinogens to express
their t'umorigenie potential. Dibenz (a, c) anthracene which was re-
ported byV'anDuuren, et al. (414 to be an initiating agent, was
found!by Lijinsky, et al. (22) to also act as a complet'e carcinogen in
mouse skin experiments.
In another investigation, Vani Duuren, et al. (42) confirmeff thatt
tobacco smoke condensate is primarily a tumor-prornoting agentt
with weak carcinogenic activity. They also found that benzo(a)-
pyrene,, a carcinogen in cigarette "tar,'''' acts as a tumor promoter
when applied to mouse skin in lbw doses over a long time periodl
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TABLE 1.-Some initiating agents in two-stage carcinogenesis.
Compound'.
t Dibenz (a,c) anthracene
t Chrysene
t Br?nz(a)anthracene
t 6-1Vlothylanthanthrene
Chloromethyl methyl ether
U7-ethaw
Triethylenemelamine
1,4-Dimethanesulfonoxy-2-butyne
i^ Those found in cigarette emoke:
SOURCE: Van Duuren, et al. (41).
after the application of' an initiating agent. This supports the obser-
vation that the tumor-promoting activity of' cigarette "tar" may
represent the summation of carcinogenic activities of the severall
carcinogenic aromatic hydrocarbons present in cigarette "tar."'
In tobacco carcinogenesis research the choice of`bioassay is of'
major importance. Mouse and rabbit skin models have beeni an im-
portant source of experimentall data concerning tobacco carcino-
genesi's C4k)'. Several relatively rapid screening bioassays have beenn
recently suggested. Major (24) examined the effects of tumor pro-
mot'ers and initiators on mouse skin, measuring cell numbers, cell
size, mitotic index; and epidermall thiiekness. Changes found during,
the first five days were characteristic for different agents.
The effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on the nonspecific:
esterase activity in sebaceous glands of mice were examinedl by
Healey, et al. (8)i. The changes observed were not entirely specii'ic
for carcinogenic activiity and were probably related more, to' the
toxicity of the painted substances to the sebaceous gland cells. This
suggests that further improvementis neededl in t'his system beforee
it can be a practical screening bioassay for potential carcinogenic
compounds.
Shabad (33) reviewed experirnentallstudies from Russia and else.-
where relating tobacco with tumor formation, and concluded, ". .. it
is indiicated'that cigarette smoke can actually induce lung cancer in
animals."
Leuchtenberger and Leuchtenberger (21) have d'escribed adeno-
mas and adenocarcinomas in the Iungs of mice chronically exposed
to cigarette smoke:Takayama (36) found that subcutaneous, injections of' cigarette"tar'''' in
newborn mice produced benign and malignant tumors of
the liver, hang, and lymphoid tissue.
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The compound 7H-Dibenz(c,g)earbazole (7H-DBC), a compo-
nent of'cigarette smoke, was tested for its carcinogenic potentiallon
the respiratory tract of Syrian golden harnsters using 15' or 30 intra-
t'racheal injections per week. Sellakumar andl Shubik (32) found aa
high percentage of squamous tumors of the trachea and bronchi in
the tested animals andl observed that 7H-DBC appeared to be a
potent carcinogen for the respiratory system of' hamsters..
Krasnyanskaya (18) has examined the effects of chronic expo-
sure to cigarette smoke on the respiratory tract of 95 rabbits. One, gxoup, was pretreated with ani
intratracheal injection of' benz (a)~-
pyrene. Although premalignant changes were found! in treated ani-
rnal's; no malignancies were observed after four years of exposure..
OTHiER, CANCERS
i
The relationships between tobacco smoking ini its various forms:
and cancers of the oral cavity; larynx, esophagus, kidney, urinary
bladder, andl pancreas were summarized in the 1971 report, "'The
Healthi Consequences of Smoking" (39).
1. Cancer of 'the Larynx
a. Epidemiological, experimental~ and pathol'agical studies
support the conclusion that cigarette smoking is a signif-
icant factor in the causation of cancer of the larynx.b. The risk of developing laryngeal' cancer
among cigarette
sm~okersaswell as pipe and/or cigar smokersi& signif-
cantly higher than among, nonsmokers.
c. The magnitude of the risk for pipe and cigar smokers is
about the same order as that for eigarette smokers, or pos-
sibly slightly lower.
dl Experimental exposure to the passive inhalation of cig-
arette smoke has been, observed to produce premalignant
and malignant changes in the larynx of hamsters..
2. Cancer of'the: Oral Cavity
a. Epidemiological andlexperimental studies contribute to the
conclusion that smoking,is a significant factor in the devel-
opment of cancer of the oral cavity and that pipe smoking;
alone or in conjunction with other forms of tobacco use,,
is causally related to cancer of the lip.
b. Experimental studies suggest that tobacco extracts and
tobacco smoke contain initiators and promoters of'cancer-
ous changes in the oral cavit'y..
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3. Cancer of the Esophagus
a. Epidlemiological studies have demonstrated t'hat cigarett'e
smoking is associated with the development of cancer of
the esophagus.
b. The risk of developing esophageal cancer among, pipe
and/or cigar smokers is greater than that for nonsmokers
and of about the same order of magnitude as for cigarette
smokers, or perhaps slightly lower.,
c. Epidemiological studies have also indicated an association,
between esophageal cancer and aleohol consumption andl
that alleohol consumption mayint'eract with cilgaretltesmoking. This combination of exposures ils
associated with
especially high rates of cancer of the esophagus.
4. Cancer o f the Urinary Bladder
a. Epidemiologi'cal! studies have dernonstrated an association
of cigarette smoking with, cancer of' the urinary bladder
amng men.
b. The associiation of'tobacco usage, and cancer of the kidney
is less clear-cut.
c., Clinical and pathological studies have suggested that
tobacco smoking may be related to alterations in the me-
tabolismi of'tryptophan and may in this way contribute to
the development of urinary tract cancer.
5. Cancer of the Pancreas
Epidemiologicall studies have suggestedl an association be-
tween cigarette smoking and cancer of the pancreas. The
significance of the relationship is not clear at this time.
Additional relevant epidemiological, pathologiical's and experi-
mental data have been reported.
CANCER oF'THE LARYNX
NTclrTelis and! p75parzai (23) reported 14 cases of carcinoma in situ
of the larynx found! among 387 vocall cordl biopsies. Thirteen pa-
tients were men and with one exception all, smoked eigarettes,
Lavelle (20)' described li1patients with carcinoma of the larynx
which occurred as a, second primary cancer at least one year after
the suceessfull treatment of an initial primary cancer of the
bronchus. "'Although it was not possible to ascertain with certainty
the smoking habit of all these patients there were no definite non-
smokers among them."
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ORAL CANICE&.
Leukoplakia of' the oral mucosa represents a keratinization of
surfaces normally unkeratinized. Over a 23-year period, Sugar and'~
Banoczy (35) observed 53'5: patients with leukoplakia. Of the 324
patients examined in the latest survey,, 96 (30 percent) had
leukoplakia for more thani 10 years, Two hundred sixty-nine pa-
tients (83 percent) were smokers. Treatment was ineffective in
those patients who continuedl to smoke. Oral cancer eventually de-
veloped in 13'of 48 patients (27'percent) who had severe leukopla-
kia.
The initial changesi~n the mou,th, caused by smoking, m~ay: not be:
the hyperkeratotic lesions of leukoplakia. Meyer,, Rubinst'ein, and
colleagues (25, 29)~ examined the effect'& of smoking, on the surface !
cytology of clinically normal oral mucosa and; in general, foundd
that smoking produced changes in cytoplasmi characterized by less
mature cell configurations. These changes were most pronounced
oni those surfaces most, directly exposed to the streami of cigarette,
smoke.
Etiological aspects of squamous cancers of' the head: and neck
were reviewed by Wynder (43). There was an increased likelihood
of a second primary tumor forming, at the site of the: first cancer if
a patient had been a heavy: smoker, or if' he continued to srnoke,,
after surgical removal of the first primary. From a preventive point
of view it was observed that squamous cell cancers of the head and I
neck would, be comparatively rare in the.absence of'tobacco andl ex-
cessiiae alcoholl consumption.
Jussawalila andlDeshpande (15)~ examined various types of smok-
ing and chewing habits in a retrospective investigatibn, of 2,0055
patients in Bbrnbay, Iindia, who had histolbgically established can-
cers of'the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx; andl esophagus. Smokers
used either a manufactured cigarette or the Indian "bidi" whichi
contains a small quantity of shredded tobacco rolled in a dried 1eaf,
usually of the Texnburnil tree (Dispyros Mela,noxylon). Chewers
used "pan" made with betel leaf, lime, and! spices. A small quantity:
of tobacco was, on occasions added to this mixture as an optional in-
gredient: Smoking and chewing both resultedl in an increased, risk of
cancer at, each site examined with a striking, increase in risk ob-
served in patients who hadl the combined habits of chewing and
srnoking, (figure 4!). Thet independent contributioni of tobacco to: the
increased risk of cancer at, each site could not be clearly isolated as
there was no eontroll for chewing, when sxnoking, characteristics
were examined and vice versaL
Intra-oral smoking with the lighted end of a cigar or cigarette
inside the mouthi is a custom found in parts of the Caribbean, South
America, India, and the Ilslan~d' of Sardinia. Morrow and Suarez
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(27) examined 79 intra-oral smokers, most of' whom hadl sought
medical attention for reasons other than symptoms associated with
smoking-related diseases.A111 but one patient demonstrated "nico-
tinic stomatitis"' characterized by hyperplasia, acanthosils; hyper-
keratosis~,, and parakeratosis. Sixteen case& of squamou& cellll car6-
noma were found. These were located predominantly at the base of
the torgue; tonsillar fauces, and adjacent pharyngeal mucosa.
Oral
Orophaarynx
Hypo.pharynx.
Larynx,
oe5opha9u4
FicuPE,4.-Relative risk of cancer of' the orall cavitg,, pharynx,, larynx, andi
esophagus associated with~ smoking, and chewing in various forms.
SauxcEC Jussawalla, D. J.,, Deshpande, V'. A. (15).
The orall mucosa of many experimental animals appears to be
resistant to the induction of cancers. Cohen, et al. (4) failed to: pro-
duce any distinctive cancerous or precancerous changes in the
mucosal lining of surgically created buccal' pouches of monkeys fill6d
with chewing tobacco for varying lengths of time:Homburger (12)
exposed the oral mucosa of Syrian golden hamsters to snuff and.
7;12-Dimethylbenz (a) anthracene (D1V1BA) using a bit insertedl 'inn
the mouth. Snuff alone failed1to produce any changes that were not
also seen in the control animals who had4plain cot'ton plug inserted
in the mouth. Benzo (al)' pyrene and DMBA caused! ai few carcinornass
of the oral mucosa, but they producedl ai much higher number of'f
cancers outside the mouth where the carcinogenic agents had spiilledl
onto the perioral skin. The authors observedl that "'. . . skin-painting
experiments are more sensitive imdicators of carcinogenicity for the
oral mucosa thani applications to the mucosa itself."
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CANICER OF THE' lu~+'SOPHAGUS'
Cancer of the esophagus is associated withi both tobacco: and al-
cohol consumption.
In, the prospective study from Japan, Hirayama (1a) found no
significant association between the use of cigarettes or alcoholl alone
and cancer of the esophagus, but there were high rates of esopha-
geal cancer among individuals using both cigarettes and alcohol
(figure 5).
30
22.5
7.6
4.2
5.1
27.9'
0 0
Drinking
Daily + + +
9mokingi
Daily + ++ + +'+
Observed 66,080 59,062 48;799
Person-years 95,073 19,4'22' 43,025
FiouRE 5.-Death rates for cancer of the esophagus in Japanese males by smok-
ing and drinking characteristics.,
Souxed: Hirayama,, T. (10).
Schoenberg„ et al. (31) , using cohort analysis, examined mart'al'-
ity from esophageal cancer in~ the United States. Substantial ethnic,
geographic, and ternporal' variations were observed. On, a state-by-
state basis; mortality from esophageal cancer was correlated about
equally with urbanization, per capita cigarette sales, and per capital
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alcohol sales.. The correlation with urbanization was partially ex-
plained by increased sales of tobacco and alcohol in~ urban~ areas.
CANCER OF THE URINARY BLADDER
In a retrospective study of 470 confirmed cases of transitional
cell or squamouscelll cancers of't'lie biadder;, Cole, et al. (5) found a
consistent positive relationship between cigarette smoking and
bladder cancer. The relative risk and standard error for the devel-
opment of' bladder cancer were 1.89 -±- 0.22 for male smokers and
2:00 ± 0.33 for female smokers., A dose-response relationshsp, was
demonstrated for both the number of cigarettes smoked per day
(figures 6land' 7) and various degrees of inhalation. Bladder cancer
has been sliownto be associated with certain occupat'ional categories
such as dye! workers, certain textile workers, tailors,, and nurses
(2, 14)1. Cole standardized'the data with respect to occupation andd
found that the risk demonstrated could not be explainedl by any: in=
direct association with, industrial exposure. Col'e concluded :"The.
3
0
a
N
cr
2.17
2.01'
1.00 1.03'. r7 7-7-1
Observed 70 36I 140 85 '
Expected 109:5 54.6 109.1 61.4
Number of cigarettes PVonsmoker 1-9 10429 30-49~
smoked per, day
MALES
FIGURE 6. Relative risk of urinarybladtlernaneer for males by amount smoked.
SOURCE: Cole, P:,,et al.(5).,
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4
0
1.97
1'.52
1'.00 NA 3:81
Observed 50 13 30, 1i2
Expected 68.2 11'.7 M8 4.3
Nlimber of' cigarettes smoked
per day
Nonunoker ;_9
FEMALES
1'0-29.
30-49
FIGURE 7.-Relative risk of urinary: bladder cancer for females by amount'
smoked.
SauRCE': Cole, P., et al. (5),
present findings indicate that about 35 percent of cases of cancer of'
the'.lower urinary tract in the study population are associatedl with
cigarette smoking. If this association is accepted as causal, and if it
is generalized to the entire population of'the United~ States, smoking,
is associated with about 3,,L00! deaths per year from cancer of the
lower urinary tract." No significant association was' found between
pipe or cigar' smoking and bladder cancer.,
Tyrrell, et al. (38) 1 examined several faetors including smoking,
history andl occupation in, a group of 2'50 patients treated for uril-
nary bladder cancer in, Ireland. No significant association between
occupation and bladder cancer was found. This may have' been, due
to the low concentration of high-risk industries for this cancer in
Ireland. A significant (P < 0.005) association was found in males
between cigarette smoking, andi cancer of' the urinary bladder, but.
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no significant association was' found for the 50, cases of bladder
cancer in females.
In ani extensive review of cancer of the urinary tract,, Clayson
and Cooper (3) included data that demonstrated an association be+
tween, cigarette smoking, and excessilvemortalityfromblad'd'ercancer.,
CANCER'~ OF'THEIPANCxEAS~~
Cancer of the pancreas was responsible for 9;696 deaths among
men and 7,190 deaths among wornen in the United States in 1967
(40). The United States age-adjusted mortality rate for carcinoma
of the pancreas has risen from 2.9 to 8.2 per 1!00;000, from 1920 tto
1965 (17),.
In the prospective Japanese study by Hirayama (10), the pre-
liminary data showed a pancreatic cancer mortality ratio of 2'.7
for male smokers andi a mortality ratio of 3'.01 for female smokers.
In an epidemiolbgic appraisal of cancer of the pancreas, Krai'n.
(17) found that cigarette smoking and industrial exposure weree
more strongly associated with this disease than either air pollutiionn
or genetic factors.,
HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT CANCER INFORMATION
Iin addition to the comprehensive summary from the 1971 report,
"The Health Conseqnences of Smoking" (39)!, citedl earlier in this
chapter,, the following st'at'ements are made to emphasize the most
recent developments in the field!:
1. Preliminary results from, ai major prospect'ive epiderniollogi-
cal study in Japan demonstrate a strong associationi betweenn
cigarette smoking and' lung cancer.. A dose-response relation-
ship was demonstratedl for the number of cigarettes smoked.
These findings in an Asian population with distinct genetic
and cultural characteristics confirm the major importance of
cigarette smoking in the causat'ion of lung cancer, a conclu-
sion which up to now has been based largely on studies of
Caucasian populations in the United States, Canada, and
Europe.
2'. Ex-smokers' have significantly lower death rates for lung can-
cer, than continuing smokers. The decline in risk following
cessation appears to be rapid both for those who have smoked
for Iong periods of time and for those.with a shorter smoking
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history, with the sharpest reductions taking place after thee
first two years of'cessation..
3. The risk of developing lung cancer appears to be higher for
smokers who~have chronic bronchitis. Though both conditions
are directly related to the amount and duration of'smoking, an
additional risk for lung cancer appears to exist for cigarette
smokers with chronic bronchitis whichi is independent of age:
and number of cigarettes consumed.
4. Experimental studies on animals have demonstrated that the
particulate phase of tobacco smoke contains certain chemical
compounds which~ can, act as complete carcinogens, tumor ini-
tiators, or tumor promoters:, Recently, other compounds have
been described that have no independent activity: in two-stage:
carcinogenesis but accelerate the carcinogenic effects of polly-
nucTear aromatic hydrocarbons ini the initiator-promoter
system.
5. Additionall epidemiological evidence confirms a significant as=
sociata'ion between the cornbined' use of cigarettes and alcohol,
and cancer of the esophagus.
6. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated a significant assa
ciationi between cigarette smoking and cancer of the urinary
bladder ini both meni andl women. These studies demonstrate
that the risk of developing bladder cancer increases with in,
halation and the number of'cigarettes smoked.
7: EpidemiologicaI evidence demonstrates a significant associa~-
tion between cigarette smoking andl cancer of'the pancreas.
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CHAPTER S
Pregnancy

Contents
Introductiion ...............
Effect on Birth Weight ......... ........................
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Effect on the Outcome of'Pregnancy ..................
Congenitall Malformations .................................
Cancer in Children Born to Smoking Mothers ............
Long-Term Effects on, Children Bornto Smoking Mothers ..
Experimental Studies .................................
Summary .............
References
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The 1971 report, "The H'ealth Consequences of' Smoking"' (23'),,
summarized the relationship between smoking and' pregnancy as
follows :
Maternal smoking during pregnancy exerts a retarding in-
fluence on fetal growthi as manifeste& by deereasedl infant
birth weight and an increased incidence of prematurity, de-
fined by weight alone., There is strong evidence to support t'he
view thati smoking mothers have a significantly greater num-
ber of unsuccessful pregnancies due to stillbirth, and neonatal
death, as compared to nonsmoking, mot'hers. There: is insuf-
ficient evidence to support a comparable statement for abor-
tions: The recently published aecond'i Report of the 1958
British Perinatall Mortality Survey, a carefully designed and
controll'ed! prospectivestudyinvolving, l'arge, numbers of pa-
tient's; adds further support to; these eonclusions..
New epidemiological, experimental, and patholbgic studies lend
support to the foregoing statements.
EFFECT ON B'IR'TH WEIGHT
Anallysis of data from more than 1'00i,000, births has shown that
infants of mothers who srnoke during pregnancy have a mean birth
weight of 6.1 ounces (173' grams) less than infants borni to non-
smoking mothers (23). Several recent studies confirm this relation-
ship (1, 2, 6, 7, 1'0„ 13, 13, 18; 25).
EFFECT ON THE OUTCOME OF PREGNANCY
New studies have been publfshed concerning the ePfect of maternal
smoking on the outcome of pregnancy.
Kullander and Kallen (13) performed', a prospective studly: in
Sweden involving 6,363 pregnant women. These women completed
several questionnaires during the course of their pregnancy, and
ini this manner specific information wa& obtained~ on smoking habits
for the entire pregnancy. Forty-four percent of the women smoked
cigarettes during pregnancy and 97 percent of these! smoked during
the whole pregnancy.
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Stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and deaths occurring before one year
of age were recorded to determine a "total death risk."' This risk
was approximately 60 percent, higher for children born to smoking
mothers as compared to those born to nonsmoking mothers.
Deaths occurring before one week of age and also deaths taking
place between the: age of one week and one year were significantly
more frequent in children bornt'osmoking, mothers. Among children dying before one week of age;
significantly more cases of abruptio
placentae were found in smoking mothers than in nonsmoking
mothers. The higher level of' neonatal mortality in children born ta
smoking rn.others was confined to those weighing more than 2,50'G
grams. Live-born infants weighing less than 2,5p0 grams had:
equally high neonatal mortality rates whether they were born to
smoking; or nonsmoking, mothers. The stillbirth rate was greater in
smoking mothers than in nonsmoking mothers, but the differencee
was not statistically significant.
Ani overalliincrea:sed ri'sk of'spontaneou~s abortiorT amongsm~oking
women was found, but this was primarily due to an association, be-
tween unwanted pregnancy andl smoking. The authors found that
significantly (P'<.001) more womeni with unwanted pregnancies
were smokers than women vwith wanted pregnanciies; in addition,
spontaneous aborrions were significantly (P < .001'I)i more frequent
among women with unwanted pregnancies than among women with
wanted pregnancies. When, correctioni was made for the mothers'
acceptance of pregnancy, the contribution of maternal smoking to,
spontaneous abortion was of only borderline significance.
Also in the: Kullander and Ka11en study (13), a decreased fre-
quency of'preeclampsia among smoking mothers was noted. Mater-
nal smoking had no effect on the meani Apgar score of surviving,
non-malform,edl children.
A prospect'ive study from Sweden of abortions in 4,31,2' pregnan-
cies was reported by Pal'mgreni and Wallander (Z7)',. Only those
women who smokedlthroughout pregnancy were considered smokers.
The lowest abortion rate was found among nonsmokers, 7.8' percent,
while the highest rate was found, among heavy smokers, 14.5 per-
cent (table 1). The difference is statistically significant (P < .001)..
Heavier smokers appeared to abort earlier in pregnancy.. A history
of previous abortion, was obtained twice as often in heavy smokers
as in nonsmokers.
Yerushalmy reported in 1964 on pregnanciies occurring in women
participating, in the Kaiser H'ealth Plan of the San Francisco-Oak-
land area (2.4 ). , The 19!71 report, "The HealthConsequences of
Smoking"' (23)1, commented in detailon that report.. Recently,
Yerushaltny published data on 13,0'833 pregnancies occurring in this
plan between 1960 and 19'67, which included the 6,800 cases pre-
viously reported~. (24, 25).
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Nonsmokers
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>10 cigarettes
Total
Abortion 177 148 60 385
7.8% 9.11% 14.5% 8.9%
Delivery 2,087 1,486 354 3;927
92.2% 90:9%a 85.5% 91.1%
Total 2,264 11,634 , 414 4i,312
Souace: Palingren, B,, Wallander, B:.. (17)'
As in the 1964 study, he: again found an increase in the incidence
of low birth weight infants (less than 2,500' grams): a'mong, srnoking'
mothers. These small infants had a significantly' lower neonatal
mortality rate and fewer congenitall anomalies than~ the small in
fants born to nonsmoking mothers. The neonatal mortality rate for
single, live-born infants born to white, smoking mothers was
11.3/1000, while that for single, live-born infants born to white,
nonsmoking mothers was 11.0/1000'; the difference is not sign2fi-
cant'..
Taylor analyzed' Yeruslialnby's data for the' probability of fetal
death andl found no difference between smoking and nonsmoking
mothers (22) 1.
Some of these! findings are different from those', reported in the
other recent, large-scale prospective studies (5, 13, 17, Z9), and
some of the differences, may be a consequence of the definition of
"smoker" used., In the study of Kullander andlKallen (13'), multiple
interviews were performed during, pregnancy which allowed more
precise separation of the pregnant women into smokers and non-
smokers. In the study reported'' by Ralmgren and Wallander (1'7'),,
only those womeni who: smoked throughout pregnancy were con-
sidered smokers. The British B'erinatallVTortality Study (5)', which,
was discussed in the 197'1 report„ "The Health Consequences of
Srnoking"' (23)1, defined "'smokers" as those women who smoked
regularly after the fourth month of pregnancy. The smoking history
was obtained shortly after delivery of the, infa'nt.
In contrast, Yerushalmy (25):, defined "smokers" as women who
were smoking one or more cigarettes a! day during the pregnancy,and "nonsmokers'"' as women who,
never smoked andd those who
stopped smoking either before or during the pregnancy.. Because
the smoking history was obtained onlly once, usually early in preg-
nancy, some of the women who, were classified as smokers could
have gone through a! significant portion of their pregnancy as non-
smokers, and similarly some of'the women who were classified as
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nonsmokers could have gone through a significant portion of their
pregnancy as smokers. If'smoking by pregnant women increases thee
risk of an unsuccessful' pregnancy;, an~ imprecise separation of preg-
nant women into: smokers and nonsmokers would tend to diminish
the magnitude of any differences found. One Swedish study: (13)
and the British Perinatal Mortality Study: (5) seemed'to be at vari-
ance in statements about the frequency with which smoking habits
vary from one portion of the pregnancy to another. If this is a cul-
turally determined phenornenon, there is no way of estimating the
extent to which it applies to the pati'ents participating in the! Kaiser
Health Plan describedl by I'erushalmy.IVIacMahon, et all (14) commented on~ Yerushalmy's analysis
of'
mortality rates in low birth weight infants. They observed that
there are ". .. factors t'hat affect birth weight without influencing
mortality;, for example,, females have lower birth weights than
males but not the higher mortalities that might be predicted for
them on that account. If cigarette smoking is another such factor,
the explanation of the higher weight-specific mortalities for non-
smokers becomes immediately clear: it is an artifact of'the analysis.
It is meaningful t'o compare category-specific rates only when the
specificationi of the category has the same! implication for each, of'
the populations compared."
Perinatal mortality rates were similar in infants born to smoking
and, nonsmoking mothers in a, recent prospective investigation of'
1,300 pregnancies from New Zealand (1). Women were classified
as smokers or nonsmokers during their first "'booking" at an ante-
natal clinic, and this was not later amended. This methodl of classi-
fi'cationi is simiilar to that used~ in the Yerushalmy study.
Comstock, et al. (6, 7)1 have reported in 1967 and 1971 on the
relationship of maternal smoking to the outcome of pregnancy. In
their studies, all peri'natal deaths and samples of live births occur-
ring during a 10-year period! among children whose mothers weree
residents of Washington County, Maryland, were matched against
the records of a special census based on al household interview taken
in 1963':Maternal' smokers were defined as women who were smok-
ing in 1963 and who had started to smoke prior to the pregnancy inn
qaestion; maternal nonsrnokers were women who denied ever hav-
ing,smoked. Wh:enit~hisstludyiscomparedltopreviouslycited, studies,
(5, 13, 17), the dlatai on the smoking status of the mothers during
pregnancy are imprecise, which limits their value.
In the 1967 study: (6), maternal smoking was associated with an
increased risk of mortality for the child, both in the neonatall period
and! for several years thereafter; however, this effect was thoughtt
to be related to: factors such as& adequacy of prenatal or postnatal
environment and care, rather than a! direct effect of maternal sTnok-
ing. Stillbirth rates were similar for smokers andl nonsmokers:
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sample of live-born, low birth weight infants and a 3' percent sam-
ple of live-born, larger infants born duriing, the 10-year period pre-
ceding the census.. The total births represent'e& by these samples
were 4,641 to smokers andl 7,646 to: nonsmokers. The neonatal mor-
tality rate, when adjusted for environmental' and socioeconomic
factors, was approximately one-third higher among infants born tosmoking mothers than among those
born to nonsmoking mothers,
(7). The categories of asphyxia, atelectasis, and immaturity ac-
counted: for the greater neonatal mortality among infants born to.
E I smoking mothers as compared to those born to nonsmoking mothers
(?) .
CONGENITAL nZALFORMATIO~NS
As noted inithe 119,71 report, "The Health Consequences of Smok-
ing"' (23)'., the possible teratogenic effect of maternal smoking hass
not been adequately evaluated. Addltional studies have been pub-
lishe& in the interim, but rather than investigating congenital malr
formations in both stillborn and live-born infants,,most of the recent
studies have dealt only with live-born infants.
Fedrick, et al'. (8) analyzed data from the large British Porinata]'
Mortality Study for the incidence of congenital heart disease in still-
born and live-born infants of'smoking and nonsmoking mothers.. An
incidence of 7:3%1I000 births was found in infants born to: smoki~ng
mothers as compared: to 4.7/1000' births for infants born to non-
smoking, mothers, a statistically significant difference ( P' <.001) .001).
Kulland Kallen (13) noted no t'eratogenic effect of maternal,
smoking in children dying before one year, of age or ini children
surviving one year of' age: However,, they observedl that published
studies have been too srnall' to exclude this possibilYty.In a study of perinatali death, occurring
in infants weighing, more
than 11,000 grams, Bailey: (1) foundlthat maternal srnoking did not
leadi to an increased incidence of congenital anomalies.
Yerushalmy (25) reported only on live-born infants weighing
less than 2,500 grams and found significantly fewer (P <.02)i
anomalies among infants born to smoking mothers.
Comstock, et al. (7)' found fewer t'han the expectedi number of
congenital anomal'ies, among live-born infants of smoking mothers:,
CANCERINi CHILDREN BORN TO SMOKING bZOTHiERS.
Neutel and Buck (16) studied" the relationship, between maternal
smoking during pregnancy and the development of cancer in the off-
spring. The base population was obtained from the B'ritish, and.
Ontariio Perinatal Studies andl consisted of 89,302' babies who sur-
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vived at least seven dlays, There were 65 cancer deaths and 32 can-
cer survivors in the period from birth to a minimum: of 7 and a
maximum of 110 years of age. Fbr cancer of all sites, the children
of smokers' had a relative risk of' 1.3. The authors concludedl: "Al-
though these results make it most unlikely that in' utero exposure to
tobacco smoke has a broadly: carcinogenic effect on the! fetus, a, re-
sponse confined to one tissue', or expressed over a narrow age range
cannot be ruled out."
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LONG-TERM EFFECTS' OhI CHILDREN BORN TO
SMOKING MOTHERS
Goldstein (9)i analyzed data from the British PerinatallVlortality
Study to~ determine factors influencing the height of 7-year-oldd
cliildren. In the 1958 study, information was collected on, 16,994
singleton births. In 1965, heights were measuredl "to the nearest
inch~"oni 13;127 of these children who could be followed up. The data
were: analyzed for the influence of parity,, birth weight, length of
gestation, maternal age, rnaternall height, social class,, number of
younger siblings, and' mat'ernal smoking, habits during pregnancy.
Allowance was made for the sex and age of the child at t'he time of
measurement. The author's conclusions included the follbwing:
"After allowing for the other variables, the children of mothers who
smoked 10 or more cigarettes ai day after the 4tlh month of preg=
nancy,, are on average about 1.01 cm shorter at age seven than the
children of mothers who did not smoke."
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
Becker and 1WIartin (3) continued their experiments concerning
the effect of'nscotine on pregnant rats, Offspring of rats given nico-
tine weighed significantly less at birth than saline-injected controls:
There were fewer live births among the nicotine-injected rats.
Kelly andi Roy(12)', using cinephotomi~crography,, demonstrated'
that nicotine crosses the mouse: placent'ali barrier in amount's ade-
quate to produce a measurable cardiovascular response.
Stalhandske, et al. (21) studisdi the in vitro metabolism of'nico-
t'ine in livers of fetal, young, and adult mice. Cotinine was found to
beth~emajior metabolhte at all ages investigated.
Using radioactive compounds, Sieber and Fabro (20) identified ai
variety of drugs in the preimplantation blastocyst and in uterine
secretions of pregnant rabbits. In anirnals receiving dose levels of
nicotine comparable to that encountered in man, significant amounts
of' radioactivity were found in the preimplantation blastocyst. A
markedly higher concentration of radioactivity was observed in
uterine secretion than in maternal plasma.
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Juichaui (11) studied the levels of benzpyrene hydroxylase in the
placentas of smoking and!nonsmoking women obtained both early in
pregnancy and at term. This enzyme.hydroxylates'benzo (a)lpyrene,,
a carcinogenic hydrocarbon found in tobacco smoke: Previous stud-
ies had shown that placentas, obtained at terrn from smoking
women, have a greater ability to hydroxylate benzo (a) pyrene than,
the placentas from nonsmokers (23). Juchau corroborated this, but
also found very low levels in placental tissues obtained from healthy
smokers during first trimester dilatationi and curettage or hystero-
tomy for therapeutic abortiom This lack of significant placental
drug metabolizing activity during the first trimester was' in-
terpreted as a possible hazard to the fetus, particularly if the sub-
stance were active in the unmetabolized form. Enzyme levels were
undetectable: in placental homogenates of nonsmokers at 8' to 16
weeks gestation.Tlie carcinogenic effect on the newborn of rats receiving, benzo-
(a) pyrene during the latter half of'pregnancy was studied by Bulay
and Wattenberg Mi. An increased incidence of pulmonary adenoma
andl skin papilloma was observed.
SUMMARY
Maternall smoking during pregnancy exerts a retarding influence
on fetal growth as manifested by decreased infant birth weight and'
an: inereased' incidence of prematurity, defined by weight. There is
increasing evidence to support the view that women who smoke
during pregnancy have a significantly greater risk of'an unsuccess-
full pregnancy than those who' do not..
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CHAPTER 6
Gastrointestinal Disorders
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GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
The 1971 report; "The Health Consequences of' Smoking" (4),
summarized the reldtionsh2p between smoking and peptic ulcer as
follows :
Cigarette smoking, males have~ an increased prevalence of'
peptic ulcer disease andl a.a greater peptic ulcer mortality ratio.
These relationships are stronger for gastric ulcer than for
duodenall uleer. Smoking appears to reduce the effectiveness off
standard peptic ulcer treatment and to~slow the rate of ulcer
healing.
Studies of the effect of smoking on gastric secretion in patients
with! pept'ic uleer andl normall controls have produced conflicting re-
port& (1r).Recently. Wilkinson and Johnston (5) reported, a sig-
nificantinhibitioni of'pentagastrin-stimulated gastric acid secretion
after cigarette: smoking, by normal volunteers, while Debas, et al.
(Z') found no significant overall change. Wilkinson and Johnston also
studied patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers in whom a sig-
nificant inhibition of pentagastrin~-stiBnulated gastric secretion was
observed after the patients smoked one or two cigarettes over a
period of 10 to 15 minutes.
A study by Konturek, et all. (13) suggests that alterations in
pancreatic and biliary secretion may be responsible for the relation
shipi between smoking and peptic ulcer.. Nicotine was infused in
mongrel dogs in doses corresponding to amounts absorbedl from
smoking upito~four cigarettes, in, one hour. In the pancreas, niicotineinhibited the secretin
stirnulated secretion of both, fluid andl bi-
carbonate, and the degree of inhibition was d'ose-related. Spontane-
ous biliary secretioni of'bicarbonate was also depressed; by the drug.
Niicotine had no: effect on gastric secretion of acid~ gastric mucosal
blood flow, orthe mucosall barrier to~hydrogen or sodiumions: Thi&
inhibition, of pancreatic andl hepatic bicarbonate secretion may de-
prive the duodenum of sufficient alkalfne secretion to neutralize gas-
tri,c acidity andl may be one biomechanism liinking, cigarette smoking
and peptic ulcer..
D!ennish and Castell (2) noted the clinical', association between
cigarette smoking; and heartburm To investigate the biomechanism
of'this relationship, Iovwer=esophageal sphincter pressure determi-
nations were made before and after smoking in, six normal male
volunteers. Alll of the volunteers were cigarette smokers. In each
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subj ect after the onset of' cigarette smoking, there : was a rapid de-
crease ini lower-esophageal sphincter pressure from the basal level.
This diminution in sphincter pressure persisted until smoking, was
stopped, at which time the pressure returned rapidly toward nor=
rnaI. Mean basal pressure was 19.6 ± 2.1 (± 1 S.E,) mmHg. and
mean pressure, during, smoking was 11.4 ± 2'.2~ mmI7ig: The differ-
ence between these pressures is statistically significant (P' < .0'01)'
No changes were noted when, volunteers puffed on unlit cigarettes.
Variable responses were noted when volunteers smoked cigars andl
pipes: The investigators concluded that cigarette smoking decreases
the effectiveness of the 1'ower-esophageal sphincter as a barrier
against gastroesophageal reflux.
HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT GASTROINTESTINAL
INFORMATION
In addition to the summary staternent cited at the beginning, of
this section, the following; observations have been made:
1. A possible link between cigarette smoking and peptic ulcer has
been demonstrated in dogs ini which nicotinewas, found to in-
hibit pancreatic and hepatic bicarbonate secretiom This
could lead to peptic disease by: depriving the duodenum of suf=
fficient alkaline secretion to neutralize gastric acidity.2'. An investigation in human volunteers
has suggested that
cigarette smoking decreases the effectiveness of the lower-
esophageal sphincter as a barrier againstgastroesophageal'
reflux.
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of cigarette smoking, on human gastric secretory responses. Jburnall
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lower esophageal, sphincter. New England Journall of Medicine
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Skin Testing ...........................................
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Irritant and Pharrnacol'ogic Effects ......................
Clinical Allergy ........................................
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INTRODUCTION
As early as 1886 reference was made to an entity called "tobacco
asthma" (64)., Subsequently, controversy has arisen over whether
tobacco srnoking, causes clinical allergy (61) and whether such
tobacco alliergy is associated with the major smoking-related dis-
eases (25, 69).
In 1957; Silvette, et al. (64) reviewed more than 100 papers con-
cerned with "'the immunological aspects of tobacco and smoking."
They concluded that inadequate animal studies had been performed
in this area. Referring to.clinical studies, they observed: "'. . . virtu-
ally all reported clinical investigation has been limited to d'etermi-
nations of cutaneous sensitivity to tobacco extt'racts ; and it must be
regretfully admitted't'hat much of this published work is equivocal,
uncritical, and inadequately controlled."'
Such criticism~ is also applicable to many: studies published'! since
then.
Epidemiologic studies designed to determine the prevalence of
tobacco allergy have not been carried out; hence, it is difficult to
evaluate the magnitude of the problem.
Allergy may be defined as a specifi'c, alteration in response medi-
ated by an antigen-antibody reaction. When a hereditary suscepti-
bility to allergic illness is present, the term atopy is used. For ex-
ample, hay fever and asthma are atopic diseases.
Thereil& no single test or observation whi~ch can be used to de-
termine whether ai substance may be responsible for allergic dis-
ease ;, however,, f ulfillment of' the following criteria constitutes evi~-
dence for such a relati,onship :
1. Demonstration that the substance is antigenic, Le:, capable of
stimulating,the production of antibody and then reacting withi
the antibody.
2.. Demonstrationthat, upon exposure to the substance,, signs and
symmptoms simulating an allergic reaction are elieited whichh
disappear upon its removall
3. D!emonstration that the immunologic event is related to the
clinical event.
Recent advances in the understanding of'irnmunological reactions
as well as in the methodology of'immunology are now being applied
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to problems of clinical allergy. For example, Ishizaka (37), using
radioimmunoelectrophoresis, recently reported that the so-called
"allergic antibody" (reagin, skin-sensitizing antibody (SSA),
atopic antibody) belongs to~ a new class of immunoglobulins, IgE.
Although the skin test remains a simple and definitive method of
demonstrating reagins in the allergic patient, there are many vari-
ables involved in this technique which must be carefully weighed
when interpreting; test results. In the area of tobacco skin testing,
such variables include: diffierences in antigenic content of the test
extract, diifferences in, route of administration, and heterogeneity
of test groups.
ANTIGENIC PROPERTIES
Tobacco leaf contains a complex mixture of chemical components
inchzding : celluloses, starches, proteins, sugars, alkaloids, pectic
substances, hydrocarbons, phenols, fatty acids, isoprenoids, sterols,
and inorganic minerals (69). Theoretically, relatively few of'these
substances should be antigenic. Tobacco~extracts of different compo-
sition result from dlifferences in tobacco types and species, process-
ing of tobacco, and preparation of the extract. Harkavy (26) has
shown in some patients a differential skin reactivity to extracts
from different types of tobacco. Cbltoiu, et al. (9) reported that 13
different antigens capable of inducing; precipitins in rabbits have
been isolated1from tobacco pollen. Chu, et al. (7) prepared aqueous
extracts of five commercial tobacco products which stimulated anti
body formationi in rabbits. Ti he antigens contained in the extracts
included both proteins and polysaccharides and had molecular
weights ranging from, 20;000 to 60,000:
Silvette, et al. (64) reviewed several papers dealing with the
immunology of nicotine and concluded that nicotine was nonanti-
genic. Harkavy (25),, who performed some of the earliest studies
on the antigenicity of nicotine, could not exclude the possibility that
nicotine may act as a hapten. A hapten is a compound which, a1-
thoughnot antigenic by itself, reacts with antibody andl conveys
antigenic speeificity when combined with another compound..
With pyrolysis many of the tobacco constituents undergo reac-
tions involving, oxidation, dehydrogenation, cracking,, rearrange-
ment„ and condensation (69). Many new comrpounds are formed.
Pipes (51) demonstrated, through exhaustion of passive transfer
reactivity ini skin sites, that allergy to, tobacco smoke in man, is dis-
tinct from that of allergy to tobacco leaf: Tobacco smoke exhausted
reactivity in sites injected with tobacco smoke sensitized serurn;
reactivity was reduced but not exhausted with tobacco extract. The
converse was true with passive transfer sites of tobacco-sensitizedi
serum; tobacco extracts abolished allergic reactivity whereas to-
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bacco smoke extract produced a diminutioni but not totall exl.iaustion:.
He concluded that it would be useful to test human suba ects for both
tobacco leaf and tobacco smoke sensitivity. Kreis„ et al. (3'9)': have.
speculated that tobacco leaf antigenieity may be lost with pyrolxsis..
CaItoiia, et ah (9), recently emphasized the importance of remov-
ing all irritants from~ test extracts. Dn a clinical setting, allergy too
tobacco additives such as menthol ha& also been suspected (47).
SKIN TESTING
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of skin testing. Patch tests have also beem used in cases of suspected
contact dermatitis.
Roseni (54)', has observed that skin testing does not accurately
duplicate the xnost common route of exposure to tobacco, i.e., tobacco
smoke inhalation.. For those involvedl in the production of tobacco
prodhzcts, inhalat'ioni of tobacco dust or direct contact with tobacco
may play important roles in sensitization (9);.
The extensive literature on cutaneous sensitivity to tobacco ex-
tracts includes comparisons of the.prevalence of' positive skin reac-
tions in different groups, such as "not7mal"nonsmoking adults(17,.
68), "'normalP''smokers (17, 33)~, allergic patients (59, 76), children
(41, 50), tobacco workers (6„9), and patients with~ specific diseases,
e.g., thromboangiitis obliterans (28, 73). Harkavy reportedl on,
tobacco skin reactions in several different groups of patients (34).
Many of the apparently discordant results in some of these, reports
can be traced to failure to compare similar populations or to control
for differences in the test antigen or in the method of testing.
Sulzberger (66) studied the different types of skin reactions pro-
duced by intracutaneous inj eetion of' denicotinized tobacco extract..
Three types of positive skin responses were observed: eczematous
reactions ; immediate wheal-and-flare reactions ;; and late reactions,
probably of the tuberculin type. The: wheal-anMare response has
beeni by far the predominant type (42).
This immediate wheal-and-fiare response! is a specific immune re-
action (6k) largely mediated by IgD: Patterson (48): recently pro-
posed a simplified model explaining the mechanism of action of the
skin, sensitizing antibody (SSA). "Subsequent to stimulation of the:
animall by antigen, SSA are produced by cells of the lymphoid sys-
tem possibly located in the alimentary and respiratory tract. ... The
SSA so produced are secret'ed! in such a way that they reach the cir-
culatiion, where: circulating, cells, predominantly basophilic leuka
cytes; are sensitized', by attachment of the SSA to the cell'surfaee:
In addition, the SSA also: leave the, vascular compartment and sen-
sitize rnediator-releasing cells in tissues. The tissue cells are pri-
marily mast celIs ... The immediate-type allergic reaction occurs
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when antigen is introduced into the individu~ali sensitized by SSA,either by transfer of antigenic
molecules, through the respiratory or
alimentary mucosal surface or by injection into the skin or vascular
system.. The antigens reach the antibody on the surface of the mast
cellls and initiate the intracellular events that result in mediator re-
lease from the cells." The actions of these mediators include smooth
muscle contraction, vasodilation„and increased capillary permeabil-
ity which can produce such clinical pictures as hay fever, asthma,
and generalizedl anaphylaxis:.
Until recently, direct skin testing and the passive transfer test
(Prausnitz-Kustner reaction): were the on]y methods of studying
IgE mediated responses. In the passive transfer test, serum from,
an allergic patientis injected into the skin of' a normal! subject.
After a suitable interval the antigen is injected into the prepared
site and adjacent normal skin. In a positive response, cutaneous
reactivity is transferred to the.normal subject at the! injection~ site.
The absence.of'a positive response in nearby normal skin excludes
nonspecific irritataioni as a cause of the response and shows that the
normal subject is not himself allergic to the antigen.
Harkavy and W'itebsky (34), found andl selectively absorbed'
tobacco reagins in patients showing multiple sensitivities. This, se-
lective absorption documented the immunologic mechanism of then skin reaction., Passive transfer of
the SSA was also reported by
P'eshkin, and Landay(50~) and byLirna and Rocha (41):. Lowelli
(.4'3:) stated, "The individual possessing skin-sensitizing antibody
to the tobacco extract may be regarded as unequ2vocally allergic to
the extract...... Despite the inability of Sulzberger and Feit (87),'
to: demonstrate tobacco reagins in their skin test positive patients;
several investigators have found them (26, 50, 75).
Harkavy (23) biopsied urtiicarial wheals after intradermal injec-
tion of tobacco extract and foundl a local eosinophilia. He felt that
this helped confirmithe allergic mechanism of the positive skin test.
He also biopsied the site of' a delayedi skin reaction to tobacco and
foundlan eczemat'ous type of response..
The delayed type hypersensitivity reactioni is manifested by in,-
duration and erythema developing,within 2:4 to 48 hours after injec-
6fn of amtior_en_. ThQ_abs
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(leaf or smoke) is antigenic and' can sensitize (2, 7, 9, 18; 26; 43; 60;
52, 64,, 66, 76) . Silvette, et al. (64) concluded!, "It is, indeed', beyond
question that allergy to tobacco extracts, presumably atopic in na-
ture, is an established fact. ..."
Lowell (43) observed that, in most instances, skin reactivity to
an, extract of tobacco actually means the presence of'allergy in some
degree to something in the extract. Arrneni and Cohen (2), Harkavy
and Perlman (31)I, and Popescu, et al. (52)1 observed! that tobacco
extract is weakly antigenic. Armen and' Cohen (2) were abl'e to
sensitize rabbits to tobacco proteins only after absorbing the pro-
tein to alurninum hydroxide, which served' as' an adjuvant.
Even though a positive skin test to tobacco extract may be due to
a specific allergic reactions the interpretation of such a positive test
in a given patient or group of patients poses problems, since sen-
sitivity to a battery of antigens has been demonstrated' in indiuid
uals who are entirely free from allergic symptoms upon exposuree
to the antigens. Rosen (54) statedl that this lack of correlation be-
tween positive skin tests and clinical symptoms is great'er, for to-
bacco thani for other antigens such as pollens,, dusts, and feathers.
He and others have emphasized that the skin test has value only
when correlated with clinical evidence.
Analysis of'skin test studies in nonsmokers (64) shows that ap-
proximately 15 percent of such "'healt'hy"' individuals give positive
reactions to tobacco extracts. Some studies of smokers reporting
a 30 percent or more prevalence of skin sensitivity to tobacco ex-
tract (33;, 43) have considered patients withi multiple sensitivities,
including that to tobacco. Atopic individuals have been noted, to
have a greater prevalence of skin sensitivity to, tobacco than, non-
atopics (64) ; hence, in some studies an excess of' atopic patients
may account for al substantial part of' the elevated prevalence of
tobacco skin sensitivity reported for smokers:
Several workers have sought to use the skin test as a screening
device for indicating, an unusual susceptibility to the adverse effects
of tobacco. DeCrinis, et al. ('13)1, Font'ana (17), and, Redisch (53)
have reported that patients with positiiae skin tests to tobacco ex-
tracts were more likely to have an adverse vascular response to
tobacco as indicated by a fall in peripheral skin temperature on
smoking. More recent studies have shown that a decrease in skin
temperature with smoking is al reproducible response to nicotine
found in "normal" " individuals and does not appear to be confined
to a specific group of smokers (1, 56, 70).
ADDITIONAL IMMUNOLOGICAL EFFECTS.
Additional evidence is available toisupport the view that tobacco
indhces immunologic changes in, man and animals. Armen and
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Cohen (2); C'hu,, etal. (;7)~, Harkavy and P'erlknan (31)~,and Zuss-man (76) induced precipitin
formation in animals sensitized to
tobacco extract. Kreis, et al. (39) studiedlprecipitation reactions in,
657 hospitalized patients, many of whom were suffering from tu-
berculosis or lung cancer. A precipitation reaction between the pa-
tients''sera andlal commercial tobacco extract was found in 62.5 per=
cent of the patients. Chu, et al. (7), using the same antigens as
those ernployed to stimulate precipitin fmrmationi in rabbits, found
serum antibodies in 40percent of a group of smokers which precipi-
tatedl specificially with, the tobacco antigens. Only 7 percent of a
group,of nonsmokers demonstrated, these ant'ibodies.
Savel (59) studied! eight nonsmoking, allergic individuals who;
developed immediate upper respiratory discomfortafter being; ex-
posed to cigarette smoke. As measured by: the uptake of tritia,tedd
thymidine, the lymphocytes of these individuals were stimulated by
cigarette smoke;, while "normal" lymphocytes were depressed. The
authorstated, t'hatthet correlat'ion, of this test with specific forms of
clinical allergy: remains uncertain.
Some investigators have observed abnormal laboratory test re-
sults in smokers as compared to nonsmokers, which may indicate
an allergic response in the former group. Schoen and Pizer (60)~ de-
scribed a smoking woman, who demonstrated a striking blood eosino-
philia while smoking cigarettes. U'pon cessation of smoking, the
eosinophil count returned promptly to normal levels. Resumption of
smoking was associated with a return of the eosinophilia. Heiskells
et al. (36), found al significant increase in, C-reactive protein and an
abnormal seroflocculant for ethyl cholledienate in smokers as com-
pared to nonsmokers. Plasma; histaminase levels were reportedl by
Kameswaran, et all (38): to:be elevated in smokers.
Experimental animal sensitization to tobacco: was reported by
Friedlander, et al. (19) in male rat's: Harkavy (29) confirmed these
results in male rats and also obtained positive S'chultz-Dale reac-
tions in the sensitized animals ; however, female rats failedl to dem-
onstrate this sensitizat'iom. Harkavy (24) reported cardiac histo-
logical abnormalities in three rabbits sensitizedl with denicotinizedl
tobacco extracts. The abnormalities found ini the three rabbits, re-
spectively, included: intimal proliferation, focal fragmentation of
the, internal elastic membrane, and' loss of smooth muscle fibers in
the media of a branch of a coronary artery; focall intimal prolifera-
tion and fibrinoid alterations, in the media of a small coronary ves-
sel ; and a: focus of rnyocardiall fibrosis and' necrosis.
EFFECT ONI TH'K IMMUNE RESPONSE
The effect of tobacco oni the immune response has received some
attention. Early studies in rabbits suggested that tobacco smoke re-
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tarded the, production of agglutinins in rabbits immunized against
typhoid (14).
A variety of observations indicate that ingestion of antigenic
materiall by the macrophage rnay be an essential step in the immune
response (3). Btu,ni (5) found that cigarette smoke suppressed
phagocytosis in rabbits. Green and Carolin (20)i performed in nitro
studies in rabbit alveolar macrophages and observed that cigarette
smoke inhibited the capacity of these cells to inactivate bacteriaL
Harris; et al. (35), reported no differences in the phagocytic ability
of macrophages taken from human, smokers and nonsmokers, but
he also concluded that his data neither contradicted nor supported
Green's work. Cohen and Cline (&'), while noting,that macrophages
from smokers had normal phagocytic capacity, demonstrated sub-
optimal macrophage function in an environment of low O',, tension,
a state found' more frequently in smokers than nonsmokers. Max-
well, et al. (45), using guinea pigs, found that smoke exerted no
effect on phagocytosis;, nevertheless,, smoke seemed to: impair the
phagocytes'' ability to inact'ivate bacteria. Nicotine has been shown
by Meyer,, et al. (46) to exert ai depressant effect on sheep pulmo-
nary alveolar macrophage respiration and ATPase activity. Re-
cently, Yeager (74)i reported that water soluble constituents of
cigarette smoke depress protein-synthesis in rabbit alveolar macro-
phages in vitro,Lewis, et al. (40) found that cigarette smoking had a suppressive
act'ion, on, secretory IgA production in normal subj ects but not in
subjects with chronic respiratory disorders. Vos-Brat and Rumke
(71)i recently reportedi that IgG serum concentratiions and, the :~e-
sponse of lymphocytes to phytohemagglutinin w~eresignificantlylower in smokers thani nonsmokers.
A number of' investigators have reported increased rates of res-
piratory iillnesses among cigarette smokers (70). Finklea,, et a1L
(16')' studied antibody response in 289 volunteers after the 1968'
Hong Kong,inliuenza epidemic. They reportedla significant decrease
among cigarette smokers in the persistence of hernagg)'utinatibni in-
liibition antibody after natural infection or vaccination with A_.,
anta'igens.Theypostulated that thisantibody defiicit among cigarette
smokers might be related to increased illness during influenza out-
breaks:
IRRITANT' AND~ PHARIVIACOLOGIC EFFECTS
As Lowell (43) has emphasized, the pharmacolbgic., irritant, andd
allergic effects of tobacco~ are difficult to distingu2sh. Acrolein and
acetaldbhyde are potent irritants foundl in tobacco smoke, which, as
demonstrated in animali studies, are capable of releasing chemical
mediators such as histamine (58)!. The inhalation of tobacco smoke
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causes bronchial' constriction, mucus hypersecretion,, and ciliary
stasis (57)n in man, all of'which can contribute to a clinical picture
indistinguishable from an allergic reaction. Several authors (4.4, 61,
63) share Sherman's (62) view that "... tobacco smoke is an im-
portant secondary factor in precipitating, allergic symptoms
through its action as a nonspecific irritant."
Speer (65)' recently compared the subjective responses of twa
groups of nonsmokers to tobacco srnoke exposure., One group of 191
patients suffered' from documented allergies:, In one-sixth of these
patients a positive skin test to tobacco extract was found; but only
a few patients were seen~ with objective symptoms which could be
traced to tobacco smoke. The other group of 250 patients had no
historyof'allergy, and was studied!by q,u~estionnaire only. Eye irrita-
tion, nasal symptoms, headache, and cough were common in both
groups. Speer concluded that these effects of tobacco smoke were
irritative rather than allergic in origin. The data presented ini this
study demonstrate that tobacco smoke can contribute to the, dis-
comfort of many individuals ; they do not rule out a possible con-
tribution from allergic reactions.
Harkavy (30)eited experimental data distinguishing allergiiec
effects f'romm pharmacologic effects of smoking such, as increasedd
heart rate and decreased skin temperature:,
Additional studies are needed' to separate the pharmacologic, ir-
rit'ant, and' allergic effect's of tobacco srnoke:
CLIIrTICAL ALLERGY
It is important to understand what role tobacco and tobacco
smoke may play in clinical allergy because many individuals are
exposed'. to them in varying concentrations throughout the year.
A variety of'conditions have been ascribed to allergic rnanifesta-
tions toward tobacco leaf or smoke including : asthma, rhiniti's,
urticaria, angioneurotie edema (giant hives), contact dermat'iti's,
migraine headache, gast''rointestinali sy~:xnptoms„ and various cardia
vascular disturbances (64) ; however, some case reports are lacking
in documentation (4, 49). A small group of patients having, cutane-
ous sensitivity to tobacco and showing complete disappearance of
symptoms when free from exposure to tobacco were reported by
Rosen and Levy (55). Included in this group were cases of asthma
and urticaria.
Studies of atopic indivi'duals have revealed a, group of nonsmoking
patients with cutaneous sensitivity to tobacco who develbped clinical
syrnptoms upon exposure to tobacco smoke (56; 76)~. In none of
these.studies (54, 59, 76), have detailed immunologic investigations,
attempting to link clini'cal and immunologic events, been performed.
Lowell (43) reviewed case reports of contact dermatitis to to-
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bacco among tobacco workers and noted: that because of ".. . the smalll
proportiom of exposed individuals who develop such lesions, and the:
tendency for it to clear completely when contact with tobacco is
avoide& and to return on reexposure, an allergic cause in, certainn
instances wouId appear to be highly probable:"' Recently, case re-
ports have appeared identifying tobacco smoke and tobacco smoke,
residue as causes of contact derrnatitis (6, 12, 72) .
Harkavy's (28) early reports of a greater number of reactors to:
tobacco extract among patients with thromboangiitis obliterans.
(TA% than among, controls drew attention to the cardiovascular
system as a possible "susceptible"'organ for allergic reactions (15)..
Harkavy continues to be a strong, proponent of the role of tobaccoo
allergy in a wide range of cardiovascular abnormalities, including,
coronary artery disease (21, 22, 25, 27, 31, 32). This view ono tobacco allergy as one of'the
etiological factors in coronary heart
disease. (CHD) has not received much attention.
Silivette, et aI. (64) reviewed reports(28„ 33, 66, 68, 73)~ on t'heprevalence: of skini
sensitivity in patients with TAO as compared to
controls and cited possible reasons for a higher prevalence of' posi-
tive skin, tests to tobacco in these patients.
In general",, th~eevidencerelating, TAO, to, tobacco allergy is incon-
clusive.
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SUMMARY
1. Tobacco leaf,, tobacco pollen, and tobacco smoke are antigenicc
ini man and animals.
2. (a) Skin sensitizing antibodies specific for tobacco antigens
have been found frequently in smokers and nonsmokers.
They appear to occur more often in allergic individuals.
Precipit'at'ing antibodies specific for tobacco antigens
have also been found ini both smokers and nonsmokers.
(b) A delayed t'ype of hypersensitivity: to tobacco has been
demonstratedl in man..
(c) Tobacco may exert an adverse effect on protective mecha-
nisms of the imrn.une system in man and animals:
3. (a) Tobacco smoke can contribute to the discomfort of many
iind'ividuals:, Itexerts, corn~plexpharmacol'ogic, irritative,
and allergic effects, the clinical manifestations of which
may be indistinguishable from one another.
(b) E'xposure t'o tobacco smoke may produce exacerbation of
allergic symptoms in nonsmokers who are suffering from
allergies of diverse causes.
4.Little is known about the pathogenesis of tobacco allergy and
its possibie relationship to other smoking-related diseases.
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CHAPTE 8
Publ
ic Exposure to Air Pollut'io!n
From Tobacco Smoke
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Contents
The Extent to which the Components of Cigarette Smoke
Contaminate the Atmosphere and are Absorbedl by the
The Effects of Low Levels of Carbon Monoxide on Human
Health ..................................................
Allergic and Irritative Reactions to Cigarette Smoke Among
Nonsmokers .......................................
The Known Harmful Effects of the Passive InMalation of
ry Cigarette Smoke in Animals ...........................
References ..............................................
LIST OF TABLES
Table! 1.-Percent of COHb during and following exposure
to 50 p.p:m. of C0 ....................................
Tab1e 2'.-Effects of carbon monoxide ...................
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PUBLIC EXPOSURE TO AIR' POLLUTION FROlVI.
TOBACCO SMOKE.
The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the present state of
evidonce concerning the effects of exposure to an atmosphere con-
taining either tobacco smoke or its constituents. Since the identifi-
cation of cigarette smoking as a, serious health hazamd to1 the smoker
was based on clinical and epidemioIogiical' observations that non-
smokers have much Iower mortality and morbidity rates from a
number of' conditions, it is obvious that cigarette smoking is nor-
rna11y! a greater hazard to the smoker than is the typical levei of ex-
posure to air pollutant's produced by the smoking,of cigarettes which
many nonsmokers experience. This would be consistent with~ the
voluminous data which show a dose-response relationship between
the Ievel of exposure to smoke and the magnitude of its effect.
The researchi so far reported on the nature and effects of exposure
to smoke-pollutants in the atmosphere has not been as extensi've and
well~controlled' as that done on, the health effects of smoking on, the
smoker himself. Knowledge on this subject can be separated into
four major areas of concern :
T. The extent to which the components of cigarette smoke con-
taminate the atmosphere and are absorbed by the nonsmoker.,
2. Tlie effects of low levels of carbon monoxide on human health~.
3. AlIergic,, adverse, and irritative reactions to: cigarette smoke
among nonsmokers.
4. The known harmful effects of the passive inhalation of ciga-
rette smoke in animals.
THE EXTENT TO' WHICH THE COlbIPO'NENTS OF
CIGARETTE SMOKE CONTAMINATE THE ATMO'SPHERE.
AND ARE ABSORBED BY THEI NONSMOiKER.
Theoreticall modolg of this contamination have been constructed~.
Owens and Rossano (44) have noted that most popular cigarettes
release into t'he' atmosphere.approximat'ely 70 rngf of dry particulate
matter (about 60 mg, in the sidestream and slightly over 20 mg. in
the mainstream, about one-half of the latter being absorbed by the
smoker and one-half expelled' into the ambient air) and 28 rng. car-

boni monoxide per cigarette. This material adds to the cleaning
problem of the air of any encliosedl space and contributes to residual
odbrs. In a recent study of particulate matter filtration, in domestic
premises (35), the authors observed that the smoking of one cigar
completely overcame the effect of an electrostatic filtration device
for one hour.
Atmospheric pollutants caused by smoking are derived from two
major sources: mainstream and sidestreaxn smoke. 1Vlainstream,
smoke emerges from! the tobacco product through the mouthpiece
during puffing, whereas sidestream smoke comes from the burning
cone and from the mouthpiece during puff intermissions (60). The
tobacco: srnoke released iinto the atmosphere consists of all the side-
st'ream smoke as well as that part of the mainstream smoke whichh
has been either held in the smoker's mouth or taken into his lungs
and then expelled. The actual amount of material, to whichi individ-
uals are exposed ini the presence of smokers depends upon the
amount of smoke produced,, the depth of inhalat'ion, on the part of
the smoker, the ventilation availabl'e for the rernoval or dispersion
of the smoke, andithe proximity of the individual to the smoker. The
length of time of exposure to those pollutants is ext'remely; impor-
tant ini determining, how much is absorbed into the, body. The pat-
tern of smoking influences the amount produced by altering the
content of the exhaled' smoke. As shown by Dalhamn, et al. (10;
11),, mouth absorption removes approximately 60 percent of the
water-sol'uble volatile components (e:g,, acetaldehyde), 20 percent
of the nonwater-soluble volatile components (e:g., isoprene), 16
percent of the particulate matter, andi only three percent of the car-
bon monoxidle., Thus, the smoker who does not inhale "filters"' a
portipni of the smoke components in his mouthi before expelling them
into the ambient air. On the other hand~ the lungs retain from 86'
to 99 percent of the volatile and particulate substances and approxi-
mately 54 percent of the carbon monoxide inhaled. Hence, the inhal-
ing smoker "filters" the mainstream smoke rather effectively before
expelling it into the ambientair. A factor which has apparently: not
been, investigated is the difference in the srnokers" "filtration"' of'
mainstream smoke when the smoke is exhaled through the nose
instead of the mouth.
Thus, the nonsmoker breathes smoke-containing air composed of
sidestream smoke and mainstream smoke exhaled by smokers. The
inhaling smoker receives nearly the full, amount of mainstream
smoke as well as a portibn of sidestream srnoke and smoke exhaled
by himself and other smokers. The smoker who does not inhale re-,
ceives those compounds which are absorbed from the mainstreasn
smoke in his mouth, as well as absorbing the sidestream smoke and
the smoke exhaled by himself and other smokers contained', in the
air he breathes.
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Since pipe and cigar smokers inhale less commonly than db ciga-
rette smokers, their contribution to the substances in the air
breathed in exposure to smoke pollutants consists of a composite of
sidestream smoke and relatively unfiltered mainstream smoke
which has been held in the mouth and then expelled.
The actual effluents in the mainstream andl sidestream cigarette
smoke have been considered by Pascasio; et a1. (45) and Scassellati
Sforzolini and colleagues (50, 51). T'hese authors stated that "tar"
and nicotine,levels.in sidestream smoke may be significantly higher
than those of mainstream smoke and may be~ harmful to the non-
smoker. Actual volume measurements were not reported, however..
Actual measurements of'the contamination due to cigarette smok-
ing,have been carried out by a number of research groups. A recent,
welt-controlled study by Harke (24) involvedl the smoking of' 42
cigarettes in, 16 to 18 minutes using German blendi cilgarettes of
8!5, mm. length, 18 mm. filter, and smoked to a 25 mmL butt length,
in a room, with ai volume of 57 cubic meters (approximately the
equivalent of a room with a 10!-foot ceiling and dimeusions of 12~by
14 feet).'phe author observed that in the absence of ventilation the
atmosphere contained up, to 50, p.p.m. carbon monoxide and .57
mg./mL3 nicotine. With substantial ventilation, these levels fell sig-
nificantly ('to approximately 10 p,p.m. carbon monoxide and .10'.
mg./m~' nicotine)i. He also found that cigar smoke (9 cigars of Clear
Sumatra tobacco smoked in 30 to 35' minutes) produced similar
amounts of' contamination while pipe smoke (3' grams of Navy type
medium cut tobacco smoked as; eight pipefuls in 35 to 40 minutes):
produced much less. Other authors have made similar measure-
ments., Galuskinova ('2Q) found that 3,4-benzpyrene levels in, a
smoky restaurant were from 2.82 to 14.4 mg./100 rn.' as compared
to outside atmospheric levels of 0.28 to: 0.46 mg./100 m.',, althoughi
burning of food particles may have contributed to the presence of.
3',4-benzpyrene in this setting. Kotin and Falk (33) have show:n
thatsidestream cigarette smoke condensate may contain more than
three times as much benzo ( a) pyrene as mainstream smoke.Si-ch
(55) observed that the smoking, of 10, cigarettes to, a 5 mm. butt
lengthi in an enclosed car of 2.09 mL 3 volume produced carbon monox-
iide leveisup to 90 p.p.mL Lawther and!Cornmans (34) 1, working with
a ventilated chaxnber, found levels of up to 20 p,p.m. of carbon mo-
noxide after seven cigarettes were smoked in one hour; however,
peaks of up to 90 p,p:m. were recorded at the seat next to the smoker..
Cbburny et al. (9)', recorded levels of'20 p.p.m. of carbon monoxide
in a small conference room aft'er, 10, cigarettes were "burned."
Harmsen and Effenberger (25) reported up to 80, p:p;m. of carbonn
monoxide:in an enclosed 98m.3 iroom (approximately the equivalent
of a room withi a 10-foot ceiling and dimensions of 18 by 20 feet)' in
which 62' cigarettes had been smoked in two hours.
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TABLE' 1.-Percent o f COHb during a,nd' f ollowing exposure to 50
p~~.P:M. of C0.
Time during
exposure
Mean
Range Number of
subjects
Preexposure 0.7 0.4L-1.5 11
30 minutes 1.3 1.3 3
1 hour 2.1 1.9-2.7 11
3'hours 3.8 3:6-4.2 10
6 hours 5.1 4.9-5.5 5'
8 hours 5.9 5'.4-6.2I 5
12 hours 7.01 6.5-7.9! 3
15 17i hours 7.6 7.2'-8.2' 3
22 hours 8.5 8.1-8.7 3
24 hours 7.9 7.6'-82 3'
Time without exposure after
1 hour of exposure
30 minutes
1.8
1.8
3
1 hour 1.7 1.6-1.8 3,
2'hours 1.5 1.4-1.5 3
5 hours 1.11 1.0-1.1 2
Time without exposure after
3 hours of exposure
30 minutes
3,7
3.4-3.9
3
1 hour 3.3'. 2.7-3.8' 3
2 hours 2'.7 2.3-3.0 3
Time witlhout exposure after
8 hours of exposure
30 minutes
M
511-5'.9
3
1 hour 5,1 4.8-5.4 3
1 si'4 hours 4.0 - -
11 hours 1.5 1.4-1.7 3
Time without exposure after
24 hours of exposure
30 minutes
7.5
7.2'-7.8
3
1 hour 6.7 6.4-7.1 3'.
2 hours 5.8 5.6-6,2 3'.
Soa[tcs% Stewart„ etl all.. (56~) i.
Another set of contaminants probably present in a tobacco smoke-
polluted atmosphere are the oxides of' nitrogen. These; specificially
NO' and NO2,, have : been shown to be present in tobacco smoke a1-
thoughthe type most 11ke1y to be present in the atmosphere is NO~2.
No measurements have been reported of the amount of N02 in
smoke-filled rooms: The importance of obtaining,and evaluating'.this
information is stressed by; the resul'ts' of' Freeman and Haydon and!
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their colleagues (17, 18, 19, 27, 28) and of Blair, et al. (5) who ob-
served bronchial and' pulmonary parenchymal lesions in~ rodents
continuously exposed to low levels of'NOiz.
Other experimenters have measuredcarboxyhemoglobin (COHb)'
levels in nonsmokers exposedl to cigarette smoke pollutants. Srch
(55), observed t'hat'the COHb~levelintwononsmokers, rose from 2'
to 5 percent (that of smokers from 5to 10' percent) when seated in
the cigarette-smoke contaminated car mentionedl above (exposure
to 90 p.p.m.). Harke (2'.4)i reported that wheni seven, nonsmokers
were exposed for approximately 90 minutes to a"smoked'°' room
containing 30 p.p.m. of'CO there was a rise in COHb from a mean
of 0.9 percent to 2.01 percent. In 111 smokers subjected to the same
conditions, C.OHb rose from a mean of' 3.3' percent to 7.5 percent.
With improved ventilation of the experimental room, the COHb
levell decreased' significant'ly..
The CO exposures and COHb levels reported above closely approx-
imate the results obtained following, experimental chamber expo-
sure of' humans to various levels of CO. The uptake of CO by the
person depends on, arnong, other parameters : CO concentrration,
previous COHb level, the level of activity, andl the person's state of
health. Equilibrium between CO' concentratilon in the lung and in
the bloo& requires over 12' hours exposure. However; as may be
noted in table 1, reproduced from Stewart, et al. (~56) and derived
from measures of COHb in young sedentary males who were not
smoking, over half of the equilibriumi COHb level is reachedl within
three to four hours of the onset of exposure. The equ2librium, value
associatedlwith 100' p:p.m, is approximately 1!4 to 15 percent COHb.
Exposure to 100 p.p.m. in, the nonsmoker can lead to 3.0 percent of
COHb within 60 minutes and 6.0 percent in two hours (16). Of equall
significance is that COHb has a half-life of at least three to four
hours in the body. As shown in table 1, the COHb level fell only to
2.7 percent in the two, hours following cessation of' exposure to 50
p.p.m. from the end exposure level of 3! 7 percent. Thi's lengthy half-
life extends the period of effect of exposure to CO and provides for
a buildup of COHb concentration from fresh exposures.
ke-
ally
ali-
,02..
in
;his
and
THE EFFECTS OF LOW LEVELS OF
CARBON MONOXIDE ON HUMAN HEALTH
The data on the effect of low levels of carbon monoxide on humann
psychological and physiological function have been summarized inn
two recent publications (8, 58).
There is presently much discussion as to the physiologic and
psychophysiologic effects of exposure tollevels of CO approximating,
50 to 1001 p.p.m. Beard andl Grandstaff (4), observed that exposure
to 50 p.p:mL of CO1 for from 27 to 90 minutes altered auditory dis-
iss

crimination, visual acuity, and the ability to distinguish relative
brightness. McFarland ('.4Q) observed that COHb levels of 4 to 5
percent caused visuail threshold impairment. Ray and Rockwell
(48), reporting on a study of the driving, ability of three suba ects
under varying, CO exposure, observed that the presence of 10 per-
cent COHb was associated with increased response time for tai1~
light discrimination and increased variance in distance estimation.
Schulte (152) observed that increased errors in, cognitive and choice
dliscriminat'ion tests were manifest at levels of COHb as low as 3
percent. Chevalier, et al. (7), have also observed that levels of' 4
percent COHb in nonsmokers are associated with an, increase in
oxygen debt formationi with exercise similar to that seen in smokers.
On the other hand, other investigators utilizing complex
psychomotor tasks in men and monkeys have observed no decrement
in functi~onupon exposures to CO1 at, 50 to 2'50~ p.p.m. (2;,8,, 23, 41,
56).
Animals exposed to low levels of CO ( 50 to 100 p.p.m.) continu-
ously for weeks have shown varying degrees of cardiac and cerebrall
damage similar to that produced by hypoxia (21,,k7; 57).
Fina11y, the possible effects of exposure to 50-100 p.p.m, CO on,
patients with coronary heart disease ( CHD ) were investigated by
Ayres, et al. (1) who observed a decrease in arterial and mixed
venous oxygen tensions with COHb saturations of 5 percent. Certain
patients with CHiD' developedi altered laetate and pyruvate metabo-
lism, with COHbleveUs of 5 to 10 percent suggesting myocardial
hypoxia.
The evidence concerning the effect of low levels of carbon monox-
ide has recently been reviewed and eval!uatedl by the National Air
Quality Criteria Committee of the National Air Po1lution Control'
Administration (58). The following is taken from the published
conclusions of the Advisory Committee (also see table 2) :
"Experimental exposure of' nonsmokers to 5'8' mg/m3 (50
ppm) for 90 minutes has been associated with impairment in
time-interval discrimination.... This exposure will prod'uce:
an increase of' about 2 percent COiHb in the blood. This same
increase in blood CO'Hb wi11' occur with continuous exposure
to 1'2 to 17 7 mg/m3 (10 to 15 ppm) 1 for 8 or, more hours,...
"Ekperimental exposure to CO concentrations sufficient to
produce bloodl COI+Ib levels of about 5, percent (a level pro-
ducible by exposure to, about 35 mg/m' for 8 or more hours)'
has provided ini some instances evidence of impaired perform-
ance on certain other psychomotor tests, and an impairment in
visual discrimination.. . .
"Experimental exposure to CO' concentrations sufficient to,
produce blood COHb levels above 5, percent (a level producible.
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Tasa.,E 2'.-Eff ects'af carbon monoxide.
Environmental
conditions
Effect.
Comment
58' mg./m~3' (50 p,p.m.) Impairment of time- Blood COHb levels not
for 90 minutes interval discrimination available, butl antici-
in inon-smokers. pated to be about 2.5
percent.
Similar blood COHb levels
expected from exposure
to10to17mg./m.3 (10
to 15 p.p.m.) for 8'or
more hours.
115 mg./m.3' (100
p:p:m.) intermit-
tently through a
facial mask.
High concentrations
of C 0' were admin-
istered for 30 to 120
seconds, andl then 10
minutes was allowed
for washout of'
alveolar CO before
blood COHb wass
measured.
Impairment in perform-
ance of some psycho-
motor tests at a COHb
level of 5 percent.
Exposure sufficient to pro-
duce blood COHb levels
above 5 percent has been
shown to place a physio-
logic stress on patients
with heart disease.
Similar results may have
been observed at' lower
C00 Hb levels, but'blood
measurements were not
accurate.,
Data, rely on COHb levels
produced rapidly after
short exposure to highh
levels of CO'.; this is not',
necessarily: comparabiee
to exposure over a longer
time period or under
equilibrium conditions.
Soaecn:. Adapted feom.U.SS Public.Healthi Serviee., AicQualitxCriteria~forCArbon.ffionoxide:
Washington, D:C., U.S. Department.of Health,.Education, and. Welfare (58)',.
by exposure to 35 rng/rn3 or' more for 8' or more hours) hass
provided evidence of physiologic stress in patients with heart
disease. . . ."
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to
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to
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The lovels of carbon monoxide found to be present in "smoked"'
rooms (20 to 80 p.p.m.) are similar to the levels (30 to 50 p:p.ln.)
which the Advisory: Committee has conchadled are associated with
adverse health effects :',
``An exposure of 8' or more hours to a carbon monoxide con~-
centration of 12'to 17 mg/m3 (1!0 to 15, pprn) will prodhce a
blood carboxyhemoglobin level of' 2:0 to 2.5: percent in non,
smokers.. This level of blood carboxyhemoglobin has been asso-
ci~ated with adverse health effects! as man~ifest'edby ilmpai'red
time interval discrimination. Evidence also indicates that an
exposure of 8 or more hours to a C0'. concentrationi of 35 mg/m31
(30 ppm) willl produce blood carboxyhemoglobin levels of
about 5 percent in nonsmokers: Adverse health effects as mam
ifested by impa2redperformance on certain other psychomotor
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test's have been associated with this blood carboxyhemoglo-
bin level~, andl above this level there is evidcnce of physiologic
stress in patients with heart disease."'
These llevels of C0 are also similar to that set, as the time-
weightedl occupationall Threshold Limit Value of 50 p.p.m. for a
40-hour week (five 8-hour days) ) which has been in effect in the
United States for the past several years (Z3). A further reduction
in this limit to 25 p.p.m. is, now under consideration. These levels of'
CO' exceed those recently set by the Environmentai Protection
Agency as the national primary and secondary ambient air quality
standards for C0! (14Y. These standards are:
(a) 10 milligrams per cubic meter, (9' p.p,m.) -maximum 8-
hours concentration not to be exceeded more than, once
per year.
(.b) 40 milligrams per cubic meter (3'5 p:p.m.)-maxirnum
1-hour concentration not to be exceeded! more than once
per year..
ALLERGIC AND! IRRITATIVE REACTIONS TO
CIGARETTE SMOKE AMONG NONSMOKERS
(A more detail'edl discussion of this subject is presented in the.
Allergy chapter of this report,. ).
Several investigators have reported' on the discomfort and symp-
toms experienced by both allergic andi nonallergic individuals upon
exposure to tobacco smoke. Johansson and Ronge (31,, 32) in 1965
and', 1966 have observed that the acute irrit'at'ion experienced by
nonsmokers in the presence of tobacco smoke is maximal in warm,
dry air and that nonsmokers experience more nasal irritation than
ocular irritation as compared with smokers exposed to similar
am.ounts, of'smoke in the atmosphere. Speer (54) studied the reac-
tions of 441 nonsmokers divided into two groups, one composed of
individuals with a history of allergic reactions and the other of in-
dividuals without such a history. The a111ergic group underwent skin
t'est'ing for the presence of sensitivity to tobacco extract while, the
"nonallergic" group was determined solely by questionnaire con-
cerning subjective allergic responses. Approximately 70 percent of
both groups experienced eye irritation while other symptoms dif-
fered in their frequency from group to group (nasal symptoms:
allergic 67 percent, "nonallergic" 29 percent; headache: allergic 46
percent, "nonallergic" 31 percent;, cough : allergic 46 percent, "non-
allergic"'' 25', percent; and wheezing,: allergic 22 percent, "'nonaller-
gic'''' 4 percent). Thus, a significant proportion of nonsmoking, in-
dividuals report discomfort and respiratory: symptoms, on exposure
to, tobacco smoke.
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Other authors have attempted to separate out those patients who!
may have specific allergies to smoke., Zussman ( 61) found that in a
random series of 200~ atopic patients 16 percent were clinically sen-
sitive to tobacco smoke, and that a majority of these were aided by
desensiitization therapy. In an earlier study, Pipes (46) observed'
that 1i3' percent of 229 patients with respiratory allergy showed posi-
tive skin tests to tobacco smoke. Savel (49) has recently reported on
eight nonsmokers observedlto be clinically hypersensitive to tobacco
smoke. After in vitro incubation of their lymphocytes with cigarette
smoke, increased incorporation of tritiat'edthyrrridine was recorded;
similar exposure of the lymphocytes of those not sensitive resulted,
in depression of tritiated thymidine uptake..
Luquette, et al. (39)' have recently report'ed~ on the immediate ef-
fects of exposure to cigarette smoke in: school-age children. They
observed that heart rate and blood pressure rose with such ex-
posure, although questions remain about the adequacy of their con-
trols and the manner in which the experimental situation may have
excited the subjects. Finally, Cameron, et al. (6) observed' that
acute respiratory illnesses were more frequent among, children from
homes& in~ which the parents smoked than among children of non-
smoking; parents. The meaning of these results is uncertain since
smoking by the children was not consideredi and the level of ex-
posure to cigarette smoke in their homes was not measured. Shy,et
, al. (53) in a study of second grade Chattanooga school children
failed to demonstrate a relationship between parental smoking
habits and the respiratory illness rates of their children.
THE KNOWN HARMFUL EFFECTS OF THE PASSIVE.
INHALATION OF CIGARETTE SMOKE IN ANTIVIAL&
A number of investigators have studied the effects of the passive
inhalation of'high concentrations of' cigarette smoke on the pulmo-
nary parenchyma and tracheobronchial'tree of'animals. The resultss
of these investigations are listed in detail in the recent report to
Congress, "The Health Consequences, of' Smoking," (59) in table 9
of the Rronchopulmonary chapter,, and table 16 of the Cancer
chapter.
The pathologic changes observed in the respiratory tract of the
ani~mal& included parenchymal d'isrupt'ion, bronchitis,, tracheobron-
chial epithelial dysplasia and': rnetaplasia, and pulmonary adenoma-
tous tumor formation. Leuchtenberger, et al. (36) exposed 151
mice to the smoke of from 25 to 1,526' cigarettes over a period of 1
to 23' months and observed that 20' percent of the animals develope&
severe bronchitis& with atypism. Working with 30 control rabbits
exposed to up to 20 cigarettes per day: for two to~five.years, Holland,
et al. (30) observed increased focal and generalized' hyperplasia of
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the bronchial' epithelium and generalized emphysema in the ex-
posed rabbits. Hernandez, et al. (29) observed significantly more
pulmonary parenchymal disruption in, adult greyhound dogs ex-
posed to cigarette smoke 10, times per week for approximately one
year than in nonexposed' controll animals.
Lorenz, et al. (38) observed no increase in, respiratory tract tu~-
mor formation above that seen in controls in, 97 Strain A mice ex-
posed to cigarette smoke for up to,693 hours, Essenberg (15), how-
ever, exposed Strain A mice to cigarette smoke for 12 hours a day
for up to, one year and observed significantly more papillary adono-
carcinomas in the exposed than in the cont'rol group. An increased
percentage of' hybrid mice were found by Muhlbock (42) to have
alveolar carcinomas among, the experimental group exposed to
smoke for two hours a day for up to 684 days when compared with
a nonexposed group. Similarly, Guerin (22')' observed that 5.1 per-
cent of rats exposedl to cigarette smoke for 45 minutes a day for
two to six months showed pulmonary tumors compared to 2.4 per-
cent of the controll mice.,
Leuchtenberger, et al. (37), working with 40& female CF, mice„
observed only a slight increase in the presence of pulmonary adeno.
matous tumors among those exposed to cigarette smoke compared
wit'h those in the control group The authors commented that the
presence of' tumors showed an age relationship: independent of
smoking, exposure:, Otto (43) found that 11 percent of a group of
albino mice exposed to 12, cigarettes a day for up to 24 months
showed pulmonary adenomas as compared with five percent of the
controll non-exposed group. Dontenwill and Wiebecke: (12)d
found.
that increasing the exposure of golden hamsters to up to four ciga-
rettes a day for up to: two years was associated with an increasing
percentage:of animals showing, desquamative metaplasia and bron-
chial papillary metaplasia. Harris and Negroni (26): exposed 200
C57BfL mice to~ cigarette smoke for 20, minutes a day: every other
day for life and found eight adenocarcinomas as compared~ to, none
in the control' group.Because the damage observed in these experimentswas, seen after
prolonged exposure to high concentrations of cigarette smoke, and
because the comparability of animali exposure to smoke with that of
human exposure in smoke-filled rooms is unknown, it is presentllyintpossible to be certain from
animal experiment'ationi about the ex-
tentof the damage that may occur during, long-term, intermittent
exposure to lower concentrations.
SUMMARY
1. An atmosphere contaminated with tobacco smoke can con~-
tribut'e t'o the discomfort of many individuals.
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2'. The level of carbon monoxide attained in experiment's, using
rooms filled! witli tobacco smoke has' been shown to equal, and att
times to exceed, the legal' limits for maximum air pollution per-
mitted for ambient air quality in several localities and can also ex-
ceed the occupational Threshold Limit Value for a normal work
period presentlyih effect for the United States as a whole. The pres-
ence of such levels indicates that the effect of exposure to carbon
monoxide may on occasion, depending uponi the length of exposure,,
be sufficient to be harmful to the health of'an exposed person. Thiss
would be particularly: significant for people who are already suffer-
ing from chronic bronchopulmonary disease and coronary heart
d'isease.,
3. Other components of tobacco smoke, such as particulate mat-
ter and the oxides of' nitrogen, have been show,n, in various concen-
trations to adversely affect animal pul4nonary and cardiac struct'ure,
andl function. The extent of the contributions of'these substances to
illness ini humans exposed to the concentrations present ini an atmo-
sphere contaminatedi with tobacco smoke is not presently known.
PUBLIC EXP'OSURE' TO AIR POLLUTION FROM TOB:ACCO'
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CHAPTER 9
Harrmfal Constituents of Cigarette Sm,oice
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Contents,
The Dose Relationship~ .
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References ........................................... 146
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1.-Compounds in, cigarette smoke judged most likely
to contribute to the health hazards, of smoking ........... 143!
Tablle 2.-Cbrnpounds in cigarette smoke judged as probable
contributors to the health hazards of srnoking; ........... 144
Table 3.-Cbrrmpounds in cigarette smoke judked as suspectedd
contributors to the health hazard's of'smoking . . . . . . . . . . 145

HARMFUL, COI*1STITUENTS' OF CIGARETTE S1VlOKE*'
Cigarette smoke contains a large number and a wirle variety of
compounds which may result in complex and multiple pathophysio-
logical effects on various tissues andi organi systems. Although the
constituents of cigarette smoke are usually divided for eonvenience;
into the two categories of particulate and gas phases, ** many of
them, exist in a distribution equilibrium,, that is,, they are present
partially in the gas phase and partially in the particulate phase:Thi& reviewconcerns
itselfwithjudgxnents concerning the harmful
constituents of cigarette smoke whether these are found primarily
in the gas phase or in the particulate phase:
Constituents of' cigarette smoke may enter the body by a variety
of routes, Theoretically, the route of entry and subsequent absorp-
tion could affect the degree to: which various organs are subjected
to specific cigarette smoke constituents: Some constituents, par-
ticularly the water solhble components of the gas phase, may be
absorbedi by the nasal and oropharyngeal mucous membranes, or
may be dissolved in the salival and swall,owed~ thus allowing, for pos-
sible gastric or intestinal absorption. Other constituents are ab-
sorbed along the tracheobronchial'tree, and the distance which they
reach before being, absorbed! or deposited depends, on such factors as,
the depth of inhalation and the particle size: The absorption of gases,
in the tracheobronchial tree appears to, be in part dependent on the
adsorption of gases to particulate matt'er: Another factor affecting;
the route: and degree of absorption is the adequacy: of pul'monary'
clearance'by which constituents deposited ord'nssolvediin: the mucous
sheath, are delivered to the pharynx and then usually swallowed.
Of the hundreds of compounds identifiedlin cigarette smoke, some
occur ini the smoke in concentrations which may be considered suf-
ficient to present hazards to health. Other compounds appear in
* This reportat;tempts to summarize.the.areas of..generallconsensus reached' in..a.special one-
dayy conference of expertss inthisfield which met indune.. 1970i.. This iss notl to imply that
therewas~unanimousagreemenYon all.statements contained herein. A.list of: participantss in.the meet-
ing: appears: im the: Acknowledgments.
*' Itshouldbet notied, thatt there.e ia, at present, no available instrumentation ~ permittingg the
separation and individual colleetiom of the partieulate and gas phases whiah, duplicates the
precisephysicoohemical conditionsprevailingins cigarettee smoke as~~ it iss iinhaled.. AA widely
ac-cepted arbitrary distinetionbetween the two, phasess is as foll6wss If 500 percent or more of' a
given constituent is retainedl on a Cambridge filter (CM-113 ) during standardized machine: smok-
ing'of a cigarette,.then the compound is, considered to helongto thee particulate phase;
if'an,theother hand' more than 50: percent~ of the compound passea throughthe: Cambridge filter:
under these:conditions, then theconstitoent is~consideredto:belong;to:thegas:phase..
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borderline, concentrations. Still others, although potent'ially: harm-
ful, are' probably not present in sufficient concentrations to con-
tribute to the hazard;, andl some may be hazardous only when they
interact with other subst'ances in the smoke.
Substances and classes of substances ini cigarette smoke' which
have been judged to contribute to the hazard of cigarette smoking,
have' been classified' into three priority groups. Those compounds
which are judged most likely to contribute to the health hazards of
smoking ame listed'i in table 1. Additional subst'ances which probably
contribute to, the' health, hazards of smoking are listed in table 2'..
Those compounds which are suspected contributors to the' healthh
hazards of smoking in the concentrations in which they are present
in tobacco smoke are listed in table 3. Many other constituents of'
tobacco smoke are considered toi be toxic und'er some conditions but
probably do not present a, health hazard in the concentrations inn
which they are generally found in cigarette smoke; these are' nott
listed'. This listing is not presented as final,, and may be subject too
modification as more information becomes available.*
In 11966, the Publ'ic' Health Service preparedl a technical report oni
"tar"' andlnicot'ine. (60).,Tobacco "tar" is the.name given to the ag-
gregate of' particulate matter in cigarette smoke after subt'racti'ng
nicotine and moisture. In that report it was stated :
"'It is clear that the overall risk associated with cigarette
smoking increases as the average number of cigarettes con-
sumed per day increases. In the studies which have reported
other measures of exposure such as pack-years, degree of in-
halation, and' maximurn level of cigarette consurnption, the
same type of relationship: holds.'''
Individuals may differ in their inherent susceptibility to diseases
ini which cigarette smoking plays a role and differ in their exposure
to other factors which may increase the likelihood of these!diseases.
Within these groups of varying risk, the degree of exposure to ciga-
rette smoke appears to be the most critical factor for the develbp-
ment of'smoking related disease. Therefore,, the general statement
that the lower the dosage the iower the risk is the most useful guide
available. It was also stat'ed' that :
"'It is possible for a cigarette to be altered in such a way
that its 'tar' and nico'tine'cont'ent is reduced but certain other
harmful effects, for example the effect of the' gaseous phase,
may be increased. Although this is a theoreticall possibility,
'Subsequent to.the aonferencean~ which thisreportwas~based, severalstndiea were published
reporting the presence of: N nitrosamines in cigarette smoke. Since these substances are accepted
ascaroinagensin, experimentali animals;, theyrepresentl anotherportianof: the~. "tar" whichh
probably contribu,,es to the total health hazard (18, 24).
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The consensus is that there is inadequate evidence to supportaa
change in that view at the present time.
In addition, it was con:cluded,that "the preponderance of scientificc
evidence strongly suggests that the lower the `tar" and nicotine con-
tent of cigarette smoke;: the less harmful would be the effect."' Sev-
erall studie& reported since: t'hat:timteh~aveadded! strong, support t~oth!is positiion.. The
present review is an attempt to identify those
constituents of the "tar" as well as those constituents considered
part of the gas phase which are most likely to contribute to the
health hazards from: cigarette smoking.:
TABLE 1i.-Com:pou:n:ds in cigarette smoke judged'mo:;t lik:ely: ta con-
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tribute to the health, hazards of smoking.
PrBmaryphase Concentration.inclassific.ationcigarette smoke G-gas
Chmpound' micrograms/cigarette P=particulate: References
Carbon Monoxide 5,240-21,400 G (1, Y0„23,!26,,29,
34, 35, 37,,42; 46,
49, 61,63)
Nicotine 200-2,400 P (9)
i'"'Dar"' 3,000-33,000: P' (9)
1"Tar:" is defined as:the: total particulatemattercollectedibya: Cambridge filter (CM-11.3); after
subtracting moisture and nicotinee and includes the: class of' compounds knownn as polycyclic
aromaticc hydracarbons. (PAH). PAH: aree generally accepted.d as beingrespans:ibleg for a
sub-stantial portion of the carcinogenic activity, of thetotal. "tar." Although "tar" from different
cigarettes variess in its carcinogenicc potential, as measured by the bioassayme,thodsin current
use, itremainsthet most practical single. "indicator^of' total carcinogenic: potential. Speciall
mention shauldi..be.made ofBeta1`Iaphthy.laminewhichis, aknownhuman:
urinarybladdercar-cinogen~farwhich there.isnoknown safe level,of.exposure
andiwhichhas.been.reportedpresentin.tobacc!o amokein verylowconcentrations: (16, 28, 3'0.). (0.022:
µgm./cigarette),
It is recognized' that the:substances in cigarette.srnoke may: inter-
act so that the combined pathological effects of several' substances&
may be quite different from the sum of their effects produced ini
isolation. An example of this type of interaction might be the car-
cinogenic eff!ects of tobacco "tar" as a: result of the combined action
of cancer initiating, cancer promoting, and, cancer accelerating
agents in producing, the total effect. Such interactions theoretically
could take place among substances within the gas phase, or sub-
stances within the particulate phase;: or between constituents of the
gas phase and constituents of'the particulate phase. In the absence
of data which identify the interactions of cigarette smoke compo-
nents;: judgments concerning the act'ion, or identification of harmful
substances in cigarette smoke have; of necessity,, been rnade pri-
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TABLE 2,-Compounds in cigarette smoke judged as probable con-
triiiutors' to the health hazards o f s-moking:
Compound Primaryphase.
Concenttatfion in classification
cigarette smoke. G-gas
microgramslciBaretteP-particulat'e
References.
Acralein 45-140 G' (12;,20,,21,27„36;
43,45) .
C'resol (all isomers) 68-97' P (20;,4'0).
Hydrocyanic Acid 100-400 G (26,, 38, 43, 45; 4'6;,
49,53)
Nitric Oxide 0-600 G (1, 3, 15, 40, 42„44',.
57)'
Nitrogen Dioxide 0-10 G (1, 40, 44, 57).
Phenol 9-202I P' (7„ 19;, 20, 32, 50;
52))
marily on the basis:of the action of the individual substances. Never-
theless, experimental evaluation of modified cigarette smoke should'i
be designed to take into account the possibility of such interaction.
Untill there is a better understanding of the relative: importance
of the interaction of'the constituent's' of cigarette smoke in the de-
velopment of the diseases associated with cigarette smoking; it widll
be difTicult to assess the significance of the reduction or elimination
of one or several of the constituents named in this report. H'owever,
it is reasonable to take the position that unless there is positive' in
formation to the contrary, cigarettes in which overall "tar"' andl
nicotine levels have:been reduced present to the smoker lower con-
centrations of the harmful substances in the particulate phase. If,
at the same time; significant reductions are made in those gas phasee
constituentls which also contribute to the hazards of' smmking, the.
resulting product should be less hazardous to health.*
The consensus is that a progressive and simultaneous reduetionn
of all substances considered likely to be involved in; the health haz-
ards of' smoking' should' be encouraged as the most promising' step:
available at the present time towards the'development of a less haz-
ardous cig'arette:. Primary emphasis shouldl be given to~ the reduc-
tioni of the three substances or classes of substances named in the
first table, and as a second priority to, the reduction of those! sub-
stances or classes of substances ini the second table before reducing
•'An alternative.point.of'view heldbysomeisthatsmokingbehavior.is.aresponseto.theneed
to reach aa certain nicotine level and that loweringtheamount'g ofnicotinef availablee from a
cigarette may result in an increase in the number af~ cigarettes smoked, the depth of inhalttion,
or thee number ofl puffss in order too maintain an accustomed level. Such ann increase in amokingg
might result in an,increased inhal§tion of other hazardous substances in the smoke, thereby
potentiallynegatingthey effectl of! reducingg the amount available in each~ cigarette..
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TABLE 3.-Compounds in cigarette smoke judged' as suspected con
tributors to the health hazards of' smoking.
Primary phaseCtancentratian.inclAssification.
Compound cigarette smoke
micrograms/cigarette G-gass
P-particulateReferences
Acetaldehyde 180-1,440 G (4, 21,27, 36, 43,
45, 48', 49, 53, 59)
Acetone 88=650 G (112, 21, 27,,36, 43;
45, 48, 49„ 53)
Acetonitrile 14ID-200 , G (12, 43).
Acrylonitrile 10-15 G (12, 43)
Ammonia. 60-330 G (2, 22, 40„41, 43,.
64)
Benzene 12-100 G (11, 12, 25, 43, 45„
49, 53):
2,3-Butadione 43-200 G (43;, 46, 49, 53)
Butylamine 3' P (31, 40; 41)
t CarbonDioxide, 23,100-78,300 G (1, 10, 15, 23„ 26;
29, 34; 35, 42; 46, 49,
63)
Crotononitrile 4 G (43)
Dimethylamine 10-11 P' (31,40,41)
D DT 0-0:77 P ('1'7, 39, 54),
Endrin 0:06 P (14)
Ethylamine 1I0-11 G (22, 31, 40, 41)
Fbrmaldehyde 20~41 G, (4, 36,43,4'8, 53),
Filrfural 45-110 P (4, 13, 36)
Hydrogen Sulphide 12-35' G (11% 43„51'„58)
Hydroquinone 83 P (6„7Y
Methacrolein 9-11i G (12,43) .
MiethyI Alcohol 90-300. G (12, 21'„43, 46, 49),
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Pyridine 25-218 P (40; 62)
1CQ:, is; includedlbeeause of.the:hazard: it.mayrepresent to:those withCO_, retention, such as
those with advanced COPD..
those named in the third table:, In, addition to the epidemiolog,ical
and pathologicald'ata gained from human st'ud'ies,, it isirnportant to
develop better bibassaysystems to evaluate cigarettes modified
by these general guidelines.
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It should again be emphasized that, in, addition to the variation in
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frequently andl deeply he inhales are critical factors in determining
how' lnuch, of'the harmful substances which can be produced''i by the
burning cigarette is given the opportunity to iiljure him.
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150

INIDEX.
Abortion
effect of'matemal'smoking, 5 ;84,85'
frequency, and cigarette consumption,
85
Acetaldehyde
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking; 14'5,
Acetone
as suspected' contributor to health
hazards of smoking, 145
Acetonitrilee
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 145
Acrolein,
as irritant in tobacco smoke, 101
as probable contributor to health haz-
ards of smo king;,144
AcrylbnitLile
as suspected contributor to health: haz-
ards of smoking,145
Adolescentss
see 3tudents; high school
Air pollution;,
carbon, monoxide from cigarette smoke„
7,121-123i,125
ef'fect; on nonsmokers, 121-125
tobacco smoke as a factor, 7,121-124
Air qualityy
standards for carbon monoxide; 128
Alcohol! consumption
effect, on mortality rates from esopha-
geal neoplasms in:1'apanese males, 71
smoking, and, in, esophageal neoplasmi
etiology, 4,68 ,70;71'
A'lle rgy
effectt on cardiovascular abnormalities,
111'
tobacco and', 7,103-111
tobacco smo ke irritants and„ 11'0
Alphar-antitrypsin deficiency
in emphysema etiology, 4'4:
smoking and, 44!
Altitude„
effect'on arterial oxygentension„22
Amblyopia, tobacco
cyanides and; 6
diet,and„6
smoking and, 6
Ammoniaa
as suspected contributon to health haz-
ards of smoking, 145
Angina pectoris
smoking and; in twin studies, 1'8
Antigen, antibody reac:tioni
allergy and, 103-1A77
smokers vs: nonsmokers, 7,105,111
tobacco, and„7,104-107
Aortic aneurysm, nonsyphilitic:
mortality rates;, smokers vs. nonsmokers,
2
Aromatic hydrocarbons, polycyclic
effect on tobacco icarcinogenicity,,66
Arterialldiseases
carboxyhemoglobin levels and; 26
smokers vs, nonsmokers; 26
smoking and, 25,26:
Arteriosclerosis
autopsy studies and, 19,20
cigar smoking and, 19'
experimentally induced in dogs,, 19,20
pipe smoking and, 19
smokers vs. nonsmokers,,19,22,23',27'
smoking classifrcation,and,,19
Asbestos
pulmonary fibrosis and, 44!
Asthma
smoking,and,,37
Atherosclerosis
see A,rteriosclerosis
Autopsy studies
arrteriosclerosis and,,19,20
coronary hearrt,disease and, 19',20
Benz(a)anthracene
carcinogenicity; as component of ciga«
rette smoke,, 66
Benzenee
as suspected' conttibutor to health haz-
ards of smoking; 14'5I
Benzo(a)pyrenee
as air pollutant from cigarette smoke,
123
carcinogenic,effects d'uring,pregnancy in
rats, 89
cocarcinogenic effect, on respiratory
tract in rabbits„67
hydroxylation by the placenta, 89'
in smoke streams, 123'
Betel nut chewing
in Bombay, India, 69

in head and neck neoplasm etiology, 69
smoking and,b9
Binth weight~
effeet of maternal smoking, 5,83-87
Bladder neoplasms
relative risk in females by amount
smoked„73
relative risk in males:by amount smoked!
72,73
smoking and~ 68,72-74
smoking characteristics in etiology, of, 5
Body height;
effect ofl maternal smoking, 88
Bionchial abnormalitiess
in smokers vs: nonsmokers,,4'5
Bronchial histological changes
smoking and, 4'5!
Bronchitis
incidence in, British males by cigarette
consumption, 62
occupational diseases and, 42:
prevalence in smokers in Glenwood
Springs„Colorado„39
prevalence in smokers vs: nonsmokers im
Yugoslavias 40
smoking in etiology of, 37,
Bronchopulmonary disease, chronic ob-
structive
alphat-antitrypsin deficiency and, 3,44
epidemiology in Tecumseh, Michigan,
39,40
morbidity,, smokers vs: nonsmokers in.
Berlin, New H!ampshire; 39'
mortality, smokers vs. nonsmokers,
38,39
mortality rates for ex-smokers, and&
smokers vs: nonsmokers, 3
mortality rates for pipe/cigar smokers vs.
cigarette smokers, 3
occupational hazards and, 4244
smoking in,etiology of, 3,37
2,3-Butadione,
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of'smoking, 145
Butylamine
as suspected contributor to~ health haz-
ard5, of smoking; 14'5'
Cancer
see Neoplasms and specific listings, e:g,,.
Lung neoplasms
C:ubon idia ttide
as, suspected contributor to health haz=
ar& of smoking, 145
Carbon monoxide
as air pollutant from, cigarette smoke„
7,121-123s125effiect on blood, carboxyhemo&bim
levels, 2'1-23',127
effect.on cardiovascular system,,22
effect an nonsmokers, 126
effect on psychomotior~ performance,
126
effect on,vision„126
as most likely contributor to health
hazards of smoking; 8,143
psycholbgical and physiological effects,
125-128
Carboxyhemoglobin levels
blbodicholesterol and, 23
during and following exposure to earbonn
monoxide, 124,125
i,n nonsmokers exposed to cigaret!tee
smoke, 125
occlusive peripheral vascular disease and,
26
smokers vs. nonsmokers, 21F23'.
Carcinogenesis
experimental, 65-67
initiating, agents in cigarette smoke, 66.
Carcinogens
effect on oral mucosa in laboratory ani-
mals, 70
Cerebrovascular disease
mortality rates, smokers vs. nonsmokers,
2
smoking,and,,24,x5'
Cessation of smoking
effect on COPD morbidity and mortal-
ity, 41,42'
effect on respiratory symptoms, 41,42
lung neoplasm development and, 62
myocardial infarct and, 17,18
as:preventive measure in C1dD; 1!7„18
as therapy in arterial diseases, 26'
CHD
see Coronary heart, disease
Children
effect of parental smoking, 129
passive smoking and, 129
respiratory, illness and, 129,
Cholesterol
in tobacco, 24'
in tobacco smoke, 24
Chronic bronchitis
seeBtonchitis
Chronic bronchopulmonary disease
see Bronchopulmonary disease, chronic
obstructive
152'

Chrysene
carcinogenicity, as component of ciga-
rette smoke, 66
Cigarette consumption
effect on mortality from lung cancer in
Poland, 61,62
Cigarettes
tar and nicotine content, 142,143
Cigarette smoking
see Smoking
Cigar~ smokers
carboxyhemoglbbin levels in„21-23
myocardial arteriole wall thickness in, 19
relative risk in esophageal, neoplasm
development,,68
relative: risk in laryngeal' neoplasm de-
velopmeni, 67'
Coaliminers
pneumoconiosis and~,42-44
Cbngenital malformations
maternal smoking and, 87
COPD
see Bioncfiopulmonary disease, chronic
obstructive
Coronary heart disease
autopsy studies,, 19,200
carboxyhemoglobin levels andi, 27
cross-sectional study in Bergen,, Norway,
16
epidemiological'stu dies„ 14-16'
heredity as a factor, 18
incidence among Minnesota men by age
and smoking habi't„ 14-16
interaction of smoking and other risk
factors, 16,58
mortality rates and' per capita cigarette
consumption in several countries, 1,6
mortality rates in longshoremen, 14
retrospective studies in Goteborg,
Sweden, 16
retrospective studies in Prague, Czecho-
slovakia, 1I6
smoking;im etiology of, 1,2,13,14,
twin studies:,,18
Cor Pulmonale
see Pulmonary heart disease
Cough
smokers vs„nonsmokers,,4!0 ,
Cresol
as probable contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 144
Crotononitrile
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 1'45'.
Cyanidess
tobacco amblyopia and, 6
DDT
as suspectedl eonttibutor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 65',145
Dermatitis
among tobacco workers, 111
Dibenz(a,c)anthracene
carcinogenicity, as component oE' eigae rette smoke, 66
7H-D5benz (e,g)carbozole
carcinogenicity, as component of' ciga-
rette smoke, 66',67
carcinogenic effect on respiratory tract
in hamsters, 66s67
Diet
tobacco arnblyopia and~ 6
Dimethylamine
as suspected' contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking,,1'45
7,12'Dimethylbenz(a)anthracene,
effect on oral mucosa in,hamsters, 70
Edentuiismi
smoking and, 6
Emphysema
alphat-antitrypsin deficiency and, 44
experimentally induced in smoking dogs;
46;
smoking in etiology ofl, 37
Endrin
as suspected' contributor to~ health haz-
ards of smoking, 145
Epidemiological studies
bronchopulmonary diseases and smok-
ing, 38,41
coronary disease and smoking„ 14-16
esophageall neoplasms and smoking,
70,71
laryngeal neoplasms and smoking, 68
lung;neoplasms and smoking, 60+65'
maternal smoking and outcome of preg-
nancy, 83~-87'
oral neoplasms and smoking, 68-70
pancreatic neoplasms and smoking, 74'
urinary bladder neoplasms and smoking,
72-74
Esophageal neoplasms
alcohol consumption andi smoking in
etiology ofs 4,5,71
mortality rates in Japanese males by
smoking and drinking characteristics,
71
153

smoking;in etiology of, 4,70;7L
Esophagus
ef fect! o f smo kin g, , 9 8
Ethylamine
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 1'45
Experimental studies
nicotine andicigarette smoke„21
Ex-smokers
mortality rates from lung cancer, 5
Fetus
effect of maternal smoking, 5,83-89
Filtrationn
smoke, effect,' on bronclio-constrictorr
response in smokers; 45
Formaldehyde
as suspected contributor to; health haz-
ards of smoking, 145
Furfural
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ardsof'smoking, 145
Gas phase„cigarette smoke
effect on mucous flow rates in cats, 47,
harmful constituents in, 143
Gastric secretions
effectof'nicotine, 97'
Gastrointestinal disorders
smoking and, 5,6,97,98
Genetic factors
in alphat-antitrypsin deficiency, 44
smoking and~ 44
Gingivitis
smoking and, 6
Heart disease
see Coronary heart,disease
Heredity
alphat-andtrypsin deficiency and, 44
coronary heart disease and„18!
smoking and, 18i
Hydrocyanic acid
as probable contributor to~ health haz-
ards of smoking, 144
Hydrogen sulphide
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 145:
Hydtoquinone
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking,,145
Hypercholesterolemi a
as a, risk factor, for coronary heart, dis-
ease, 16,17
154
H'ypertension i
as a risk factor for coronary heart! dis,
ease, 1'6,17'
Hypoxemia
smoking and; 22:
Hypoxia
effect of nicotine;, 21
experimentally induced inirats,, 21
Infant mortality
effect of maternal srnoking; 83•87
low birth weight and, 86
Influenza
incidence fromiantibody deficit in smok-
ers, 109
Intermittent claudication
smokers vs. nonsmokers, 22,26
lntra-oral smoking
see Reverse smoking
Ischemic heart disease
morbidity ratio: from~„ in New Delhi,
India4 16.
Laryngeal neoplasms
epidemiological, studies,, 68
relative risk, among cigarette,, pipe: and,
cigar smokers; 67
smoking in etiol'ogy of, 4,67,68
Leukoplakia~
oral neoplasm development in smokers
and~„68,69
smoking in etiology of, 68,69
Lip neoplasms
pipe smoking as cause of, 4
Lung cancer
see Lung neoplasms
llung,function
effecvof smoking, 37,38
in smokers vsi nonsmokers, 40.
Lung neoplasms
epidemiological studies, 60-65
etiology and epidemiology, 59,60
incidence in British males by amount
smoked„62
incidence in Czechoslovakian~ males by
amountsmoked; 611
incidence iw Jewish, vs. non-Jewish
women, 63,64
incidence imuranium miners,,64,65
mortality ratios in Japanese males by
amount smoked, 61
mortality ratios in Japanese women, 63'
prospective study in Japanese adults,
4,60;61
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prospective study in~ Czechoslovakian
males, 61
relationship to chronic bronchitis and
smoking;,62
relative risk in ex-smokers by length of
cessation and, previous duration, of
habit;,62-64'
smoking as cause, 4,,5,59;60
Macrophages;, alveolar
effect; of tobacco smoke, 47,48
in sputum specimensoEsmokers vs. non-
smokers,, 48
Maternal-fetal exchange
effect of nicotine, 88!
Maternal smoking
see Smoking, maternal,
Methacrolein
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 145
Methyl alcoholl
as suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 145
6-Methylanthranthrene
carcinogenicity,, as componenY of ciga-
rette smoke,,66
Morbidity
fromichronic bronchopulmonary disease,,
39-41
Mortality
from chronic bronchopuimonary disease,
38,39
Mortality ratess
esophageal neoplasms in Japanese males
by smoking and' drinking character-
isrtics„7'1,
lung neopiasms, in Japanese women, 63
pancreatic neopl9sms in United' States,
74
Mortality ratios
lung neoplasms in Japanese: males by
amount smoked, 61
incidence in men in Goteborg, Sweden,
by tobacco consumption,, 15
incidence rates by smoking classifi-
cation, 1'5'
smokers vs. nonsmokers in Goteborg,
Swedens 16
Neonatal death
maternal, smoking and, 83-87-
Neopiasms
see also Specific types of neoplasms,
e.g. lung, neopiasms
smoking and„4,5;59=75
N~ickeL compoundss
as suspected contributors to health, haz-
ards of smoking, 14'5'
Nicotine
antigenic properties, 104
effect on apexcardiogram,, 211
effect on birth weight, in rats, 88'
effect: on bronchoconstrictor, response
in laboratory animals, 46
effect on fetus in laboratory animals,
88
effect on gastric secretions, 97-
effect on gastrointestinal secretions in
dogs, 6
effect on, immune response in man, 109'
effect on lipid metabolism, in rabbits,
21
effect on peripheral, circulatory system,
25,26
effects during, pregnancy in laboratory
animals, 88
experimental studies, 21
hypoxia and, 21
as most likely, contributor to health
hazards: of smoking, 8,143
Nittic :oxide
as probable contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking„ 14'4'
Nitrogen ~ dioxide
int. Mouth ineoplasms
see Oral neoplasms effect on pultnonary tissue in rats,
4'6,47'
by
ish Myocardial: arteriole walls
effect of filtered cigarettes in dogs, 20
thickness in, smokers vs. nonsmokers,.
2,19 in emphysema etiology„46'
as probable contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking,, 144
Nitrogen oxides
~ thiekne.cs, in, smoking,and' nonsmoking, as air pollutants in cigarette smoke;.
by dogs, 2',20 ~ 124,125
63 Myocardial infarctt
epidemiological study in, Goteborg;, Non-nicotine cigarettes
effect on apexcardiogram, 211
tts, Sweden, 14,15 Nonsmokers
incidence among Minnesota meniby age
and smoking habit, 14,15
allergic and irritative reactions to eiga,
rette smoke„ 128',129'
155

allergic symptoms in, from tobacco
smoke exposure, 110;111
carboxyhemoglobim levels in, 125
passive smoking and, 121-125'
Obesity
as a risk factor for coronary heart dis-
ease, 16
Occupational diseases
bronchitis, 42
chronic: obstructive pulmonary disease,,
3,42-44
pneumoconiosis, 42-44
pulmonary fibrosis, 44
smoking and, 3',42!44
Occupational hazards
smoking and„ 3,4,42-44
Oral contraceptives
smoking;and; 26'
thrombophlebitis and, 26
Oral diseases, non.neoplastlc
smoking and„6
Oral hygiene
smoking,and, 6
Oral mucosa
effect of' carcinogens in laboratory ani,
mals, 7Q~
effect,of cigarette smoke, 6,69'
effect of reverse smoking; 69'
effect of tobacco/,bidi smoking, and
chewing,, 69
Oral neoplasms
pipe smoking;as cause; 67
relative risk in tobacco smokers and
chewers, 70
smoking; in etioTogy of;, 4,67-70
Oxygen tension
smokers vs: nonsmokers, 22
Pancreatic neoplasms
mortality rates in United States, 74'
mortality ratios in Japanese male and
female smokers, 74
smoking and, 5,68,74
Particulate phase, cigarette smoke
caccinogenic : accelerators in, 5',65'
effect on pulmonary and cardiac struc-
ture and function„7,8'
harmful constituents ins 143
Passive smoking
effect on children, 129,
effect on respiratory tract in laboratory
animals, 129,130
in neoplasm indlrction in laboratory
animal „ 1130
156:
Perinatal studies
maternal smoking and, 83-88
Periodontal diseases
smokingand„6
Peripheral vascular diseases
carboxyhemoglobin levels and, 26
smoking, and4 2;252'6
Phagocytosis
effect of cigarette smoke in rabbits„
1'09
effect of tobacco smoke, 47-48
Phenol
as probable contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 144
Physical inactivity
as risk factor in coronary heart disease;
16,1'7'
Pipe smokers
carboxyhemoglobin levels in, 21
myocardial arteriole wall thickness in,.
19
oral, neopl'asms and, 67
relative risk in esophageal neoplasm
development 68
relative risk in laryngeal neoplasm
development„ 67'
Pneumoconiosis
prevalence in coal miners, 421141
smokers vs. nonsmokers, 42-4'4!
Post-operative pulmonary complicationss
snokers,vs: nonsmokers, 38
Preeclampsia
smoking and, 84
Pregnancy
effect of maternal smoking, 5,83'-87,
Prematurity
effect of maternal smoking, 5,83-87
Pulmonary clearance
effect of smoking, 3',47'
Pulmonary fibrosis
in asbestos textile workers„44
smoking and', 44
Pulmonary heart disease
COPD and„24
smoking as,cause; 24',27'
Pulmonary macrophages
effect of smoking, 3,4,47-48
morphologic differences im smokers vs.
nonsmokers, 4,47-48
Pyridine
as: suspected contributor to health haz-
ards of smoking, 145
Radiation exposure
smoking and„ in uranium miners, 64,65
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Respiratory disorders,, acute: noninflu-
enzal
in smokers vs. nonsmokers, 48
Respiratory functlon tests
effect of smoking„45
Respiratory infections
smoking and, 3,38
Respiratory symptoms
pipe/cigar smokers and cigarette
smokers vs. nonsmokers, 3;40:
Reverse smoking
effect on oral mucosa, 6:,69,70
nicotinic stomatitis and„6,69,70:
Risk factors
in, coronary heart d'isease„ 16-18
Skin
effecti of tobacco extracts, 105407
tobacco antigens and, 7,104,1051
Skin testing,
for reactions to tobacco, 105-107
Smoke, cigarette
carcinogenicity, 65,66:
cocarcinogenic effect on respiratory
ttactt in rabbits, 67
ef'fect, on apexcardiogram„ 211
effect on breathing in guinea pigs, 46
effect on lung surface tensioni in dogs,
48':
effect on nasociliary mucosa in don-
keys, 47'
effect on phagocytosis in, rabbits, 109
experimentaf studies in laboratory ani-
mals, 2 L
harmful constituents of, 8,141-146
Smoke, tobacco
as air pollutant, 7,121,122
allergic and irritative components,
effect on nonsmokers, 7,1218;129
antigenic properties; 104
effect on macrophages, 47
irritants in, 109;1'10
Smokers vs.,nonsmokers
arteriosclerosis and, 19
carboxyhemoglobin levels, 21-23
cerebrovascular diseases and, 25
oral diseases and, 6'
respiratory symptoms, 40
thickness of myocardial arteriole walls,
119,
Smoke stteams
benzo(a)pyrene contents 123:
effect on nonsmokers, 1'22,1I23
tar and nicotine content,, 123'
Smoking
bladder neoplasms and, 68,72-74
effect on cardiovascular system, 6,13,14
effect on esophageal sphincter, 97,98
effect on gastrointestinal secretions in,
dogs, 6
effect on, leukocytes in guinea pigs, 46;
effect on lungs in dogs, 46
effect on mortality rates from, esopha-
geal neoplasm in Japanese males, 711
effect on~ neoplasm recurrence at site of
primary, 69
effect on, oxygen tension in arteriali
bloods 45
effect on pentagastrin-stimulatedI gastric
secretion; 97
effecti on peripheraleirculatorysysrtem,
25,26
effect on pulmonary clearance„47'
heartburn and, 97,98
peptic ulcers and, 6,97,98
tobacco amblyopia and, 6
Smoking, bidi
in neoplasm etiology in Bombay, India,
69
Smoking, maternal
carcinogenic effects on fetus, 88
effect on abortions, 5,84,$5
effect on, birth weight, 5,83-87'
effect on body height of children, 88'
effect on fetal growth, rate, 5;83-87
effect on neonatal mortality rates,
84-87
effect on, neoplasm development in off-
spring, 87,,$8
effect on placental metabolizing activ
ity„ 89
effects during,pregnancy, 5;83-87'
teratogenic effects, 87
unwanted pregnancy and, 84
Smoking, parental
effect on children, 129:
Snuffl
effect on oral mucosa in hamsters, 70
Squamous cell carcinoma
smoking, in etiology of, 69
Stomatitis nicotina
reverse smoking and, 6,69,70
Strokee
smoking and, 24,25
Students, high school
effect of smoking, 40,411
pulmonary function of smokers vs. non-
smokers, 3
157

respiratory symptoms' in, 40;41I
Surfactantsg
effect of! tobacco smoke, 48
Tar'content •'
as harmful component of cigarette
smoke, 142',143'
Tars, tobacco
carcinogenicity, 65,66
definition, 143'
Thromboangiitis obliterans
tobacco alltrgy ands, 111
Thrombophlebitis
oral' contraceptives and, 26
smoking and, 26
Thrombosis
effect of'smoking, 23'
Tobacco
cholesterol content',, 24
effect on immune responses, 6,1.'07-1091
pharmacologic;, irritative, and allergic ef-
fects,, 7,1'09!-1111
Tobacco antigens
in smokers vs. nonsmokers, 107
Tobacco chewing
oral neoplasms ands, 69
Tobacco extracts
antigenic properties, 104,105
effect on skin,,105-107
irritants in, 104,105
thromboangiitis obliterans and„ 111
Tobacco leaf.
antigenic properties„ 1104,105
Tobacco pollen
antigenic properties, 104
Tuberculosiss
smoking and~ 41
Twins
smoking and coronary heart, disease: in,
18
Ulcer,, duodenal
smoking and, 6,97,98
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Ulcer, peptic
increased prevalence in, male smokers,
97
smoking and,,5',6;97;9'8
smoking as cause in dogs,,, 97,98
Urinary bladder neoplasms
see' Bladder neoplasms
Vascular disease; peripheral
carboxyhemoglobin levels and, 26
nihotine and,, 25
smokers vs. nonsmokers, 26
smoking as a risk factors 2,25;26
V ision
effect of carboni monoxide;, 126
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