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Cumulative Effects of Lifetime Passive Smoking on Cancer Risk
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Preliminary Communiration
CUMiJLATIVE EFFECTS OF LIFETIME PASSIVE
SMOKING ON CANCER RISK*
DA1E P. SANDI.ER: A1.c.EN!J. WILCOX
R1cH,1RD B. EvERsoN
Epldnniology Brancb, Blb+ncrry: and Rirk Asreufnenr Pragrarn,
Irttrtr'a>tal Iruttrutu of Emmormeextal Health Scie>tcas, Reuarfh
7rianglt Park, North Carolina, USR
Summary Cancer risk from cumulative household~
exposure to cigarette smoke was evaluated'in
a case-control study. Overall cancer risk rose steadily and
significantly with each additional houaehold member who
smoked over an individual's lifetime. Cancet risk was also
greater for individuals with exposures during both childhood
and adulthood than for individuals with exposures during
only one period. These trends were observed for both
smoking-related and other sites. These findings are
preliminary, and must be eonfirmed with other studies:.
Nonetheless, they suggest that effects of exposure to the
cigarette smoking of others may be greater than has been
previously suspected.
IATTRODUCTION
INCREASED risk of respiratory illttess in ehildren,l'3
changes in respiratory function in children and adults,`,S risk
of childhovd!tnmours," tmri Tie;k of lung cancer and possibly
other adult cancersa" have all been reported as possible
effects of exposure to other people's cigarette smoke (passive
smoking): Adult cancer risk from childhood exposure to
parents' smoking has also been discussed.'6]s These studiess
considered the independent effects of ezposure in one period
to cigarette smoke from only, one source, even though
individuals may, be exposed to a number of sourees over their
lifetime.
Some.of this m6rcrial atrn premted at the 6naoal meetnna of the socicty.for
Epidtmiolopc Raearcls, Junr, 19A4, Houseon, Tesas USA.
THE LANCE-r,FEBRUARY 9;1985
In a study of adult cancer risk rtlat'ed to parents' smokingl s
we collected data on:ezposure to cignrette smoke of not only
parents, but also spouses and other household members. In
the present study cancer risk in relation to cumulative passive
exposure to cigarette smoke was estamined: W e didborcollect
data on exposures outside the home, but were able to consider
whether cancer risk increases with the number of household'
members who smoke.
METHODS
Study methods have been reported elsewhere.13:15 Cancer
patients were selected from a bospitahtiased tumour registry. They
included all those with ancer diagaoaed between July 1,,1979, and
March 31, 1981, and assumed to be alive on March 31, 1981.
Patients tartged'from 15 to 59 years of age u the time of diagnosis, ,
and all ancer sites except basal1cell cancer of the skin were
included. Patients were restricted to age 59 and younger to
ma=i**++v the likelihood of tmtertnl amokirlg, since few women
were smokers before 1920.
Of 740 eligible cancer patients identified from the tumour
registry, 107 (14°1u)i died before we could contact them. An
additional 115 (16%) either refwcd to p.rticip.te or could not be
contacted. 518 (70°76)'patienu completed questionnaires. Control
tubjeas were cancer.free and of the aame race, sex, and age (t5
years): as patients. They were friends or acquaintances of p.tients
(nw309) or were randomly selected by systematic telephone
sampling (n - 209). Patients and control stlbjpcts were also similar in
occupational category and smoking habits. Analysis was restricted
to individuals who lived with both natural 'parents for most of the
first 10 years of life. Results are reportedifor, 369 patients and 409
control subjects who supplied information about the amoking habits
of their spouse and parents.
Information on exposure to cigarette smoke was obtained by
taeans of a structured questionnaire that was sent to all subjects.
Another questionnaire was sent and follow-up telephone calls were
madrwhen a response to the first questionnaire was not obttined:.
Childhood exposure to cigarette smoke was assessed from
questionnaire reports of smoking histories of parents and
informauon on other household members who smoked; Subjects
were considered to be exposed during childhood if! one or both
parents smoked'cigarettes in the house before the subject was 10
years old or ifone or more other household members smoked during
that period; Passive exposure to cigarette smoke during adulthood
was estimated from the number of years ofmarriage during which a
spouse smoked. Subjects were considered to be exposed ifahey had a
spouse who smoked regularly at any time during the'u marriage..
Active smokers were defined as those who ever smoked as many as 1
cigarette a day for as long as 6snonths.
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THE L.ANCFT, FEBRU rtltl` 9,1985
TABt-E 7-OVERALL CANCER RISK FROM HOUSEHOLD EXPOSURE TO :
C]GARETTE SMORE
Number of h'oue:holtl tnemtien who smoke
2 3 or more
Cowt6itted6roup~
Patients
54
127
123 '
48
Control subiects 99 161 97 34
Odds ratio ]i0 1,4 2-3 2' 6'"t
Acrme r"atsrr$
Patients
60
78
35
Control subjects. 38 73 60 25
Odds ratio. 10 1-4 22 2-4t
NdRnnroken P.tients 32' 67 1 45 13
Control subjects 6] 68 37 9
Odds ratio 10 15 2.3. 2'8't
Statisticatly sigaificam differcates berween risk with specified atunberof
esponues and with no exposure, pC0 05...
tSoatiaioll~significartt X'' for trend, p<0 01.
$Current smok'erssnd essmokers.
W e have found 13,15 that exposure to parents' or spouse's smoking
eontritiuted independently to cancer risk-ie,,adjusting for one
exposure did not alter the risk associated with the other. Thus we
tssed'two approoehes,to measure the effects of multiple exposures:
cancer risk was examined in relation to the total number of
houschol& members who smoked, irrespective of when ~ the
exposures occurred, and in relation to the period during which the
exposures occZUrsd (childhood or adulthood only, orboth periods)'.
Odds ratios were alculated and a chisqware test was used to assess
statistical significance. A chi-square test for tinear uend was used to
evaluate the risk with ineTeuing numbers of exposures in
unadjtuted16 and adjtutedl7 analyses.
RESULTS
Cancer risk usociated!with exposure to increasing ntlm-
bers of householdmembers who smoke is shown in tablt 1. A
smoking mother, father, spouse, or I orr more additional
household members who smoked during the patient's
childhood or a spouse who smoked while married to a patient
each counted as one exposure. The total number ofexposures
is the stun ~ of the individual'exposures. Overall cancer, risk
increased signifitxntly with~ increasing numbers of
aposures, with odds ratios rising from 1 4 for 1 exposure to
2 3 for 2 exposures and 2 6 for 3 or more exposures.
Statistically' significant linear trends were also seen when
smokers and non-smokers were considered separately.
Adjustment for potential differences in age, race, sex, and
educational level did not alter thest trends.
TABLE II-OVEltAI1 CANCER RISK FROM HOUSEHOLD EXPOSURE TO
CIGARET7E SMOKE IN CHILDHOOD AND ADULTHOOD,
Age period of tapo.ure
No
exposure ChildEood
only Adulthood~
osly:}'i
Both
Patients 54 107 I 98 145
Control sabiects 99 ,I
124 72 98
Odds ratio. 1-0 $$$ 11
16 1 L9 27$S
15$,
-E=poaure too smoking mother, father, or other hoosehold rnember during
childtiood.
f E:posuro. to smoking spouae.
$Sutistically,significami diRereaces between risk with tpecifrede:pmstue.nd
sso exposure, p<0 - 05.
SSutistiwUy sigaificanrlioear trend: ooo ezposure,:ezpotasre in only otx time
period, exposure in both time periods, x' for rrend - 23 ,7,.pG0 01.
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We also measured cancer risk in relation to the period when
exposures occurred (table 11). Risk rose by 60°rl% for
individuals exposed during childhood only and by 50%a for
individuals exposed during adulthood~onNy but was more
than doubled for those exposed during, childhood an&
adulthood (odds ratio- 2-7). There was a significant:linear
trend in risk for individuals exposed in no, 1, or 2 periods.
Again trends were similar for smokers and non-smokers and
were not affected by adjustment for potential confounding
factors.
TABLE1l1iCANCER RISK FROM'.MULTIPLE HOUSEHOLD EXPOStJRES
TO.CIGARETTE SMOKE: SiTES' WITH 15 OR MORE CASES'
Number of ezposures.
Site Number
of':ases.
1 0
1
2
3 or trwtt..
Allaiies I 369 10 , 1i4 2.3 26$
Smok'ingrelatedt 115 10 1 P8 3-0: 38$
Othcr~ 254 10 15 2-4 26$
Buccal rnity.and:
I I
pharynx 15 1-0 49' 5,1' , 29
Digestivetnct. 30 10 07 18 1,3
Respirasorytnct 19' 10~ 0+7 0-6 2-9
Breut. 48, 10~ 2,0 2-4 3-3$.
Cervix 62 10~ 16 36 34$!
Eyebr.in,, aad otherr
nervous.system 29. 10 2-3 2-3 0-7
Thyroid 19. 1.0 1-0 3.-1 8-7
Leukemia and
lymphoma 37 1-0 2-5 51 6-8$
Odds.ntios are given.
}lnclirdesonl uvity.and.ptiarnyi, oewplnagus, partereas, respiratory tnat,.,
urinary tract, aad cervu.
$Statisticaltgy significant linear trend..
Cancer risk increased with increasing numbers of
household exposures to cigarette smoke for smoking-related
sites and for other sites that are not thought to be smoking
related (table III). Smoking-related sites included cartcers,of
the oral cavity and pharynx, oesophagus, pancreas,
respiratory tract, urinary tract, and cervix.ir,ls For smoking-
related sites odds ratios for 1,,2, and 3 or more exposures were
1 8, 3 0~ and 3 8, respectively. The trend for the other sites
combined was also statistically significant but the risk was
less than that for smoking-related sites. The trends for
cancers of the breast and cervix and for leukaemia an&
lymphoma combined were significant, but the trend for
cancer of the respiratory tract was not.
DISCUSSION
If passive smoking has an efTeeZ on cancen risk the nature
an& extent of that risk are likely'to differ for childhood and
adult exposures. The clear overall trends found in this study
might be associated with carcinogens present in tobacco
smoke acting through multiple mechanisms at ditTtrent
periods of life.. We found the risk of all cancers increased
steadily and significantly with cumulative lifetime exposure
to household members who smoke. This tren& was not
altere& when adjustment was made for confounding
variables.
Our findings must be regarded as preliminary. Prompted
in patt by experimental evidencetq we initially intended to
measure the effect of transplacental orr early childhood
exposure to carcinogens on cancer risk in ~ adulthood. W e
chose to investigate cigarette smoke because exposure to this
carcinogen is both crommon and measurable. The finding ofa
cumulative lifetime risk from passive smoking was
ttnexpected.

314
We collected information on most possible sources of
eigarette-smoke exposure that would be encountered during
childhood but the only adult exposure we considered was that
resulting from the smoking of a spouse. We did not validate
information on smoking habits of spouses but interviewe&
more than ~ 700 relatives of patients and control subjects to
validate the quality of parental smoking histories provided by
adult offspring.. Study subjects provided adequate
inforntation on parents' smoking, and the quality of these
data did not differ between patients and control subjects.
For adults in the United States exposures to cigarette
smoke outside the bome may be important.20 Also the
frequency of exposure to other people's cigarette smoke may
change with age, with the peak exposure possibly occurring
during a person's 20s.20 We did not take exposures outside
the home or age-related changes in exposure frequency into
account.
Our data are limited by small numbers of any specific
cancer site, byrersain characteristics ofour study sample, and
by other features of our method.ll15 No conclusions about
the impact of passive smoking relative to the effects of direct
smoking can be mad'e,,since the selection of friends as control
subjects meant they were usually matched with patients on
smoking status. We confirmed the quality of our data and
ruled'out many, but not all, potential confounding factors.
Although the passive smoker receives a quantitatively
lower eZposure than the active smoker, that exposure iss
qualitatively richer in many smoke constituents: there is 3
times as much'benzo(a)pyrene, 6 times as much toluene, and
more than 50 times as much dimethyknitrosamine in a fixed
volume of sidestream smoke in the gas phase as there is in
cigarette smoke inhaled by the active smoker.ls The potential
for damage from passive exposure may be greater than has
been previously recognised.
Our finding of dose-dependent cancer risks for sites not
considered to be relate& to acti've smoking might be
questioned because active smokers are also passively exposed.
For some sites it is not clear in the literature if no risk from
direct smoking,exists or ifa possible link has not yet been
investigsted. For other sites, such as the breast, some studiess
have found no cancer risk associated with smoking.2' One
possible explanation for this discrepancy is that in studies
comparing smokers with non-smokers, passive smokers are
included in the non-smoking group. This would make it
difPicult' to detect a small difference in risk due to smoking.
Few studies have evaluated thc effects of passive smoking on
risk of cancer at'sites other than the lung. Furthermore, there
is little data available on the effects of transplacental or
childhood exposure to cigarette smoke on cancer risk in
adulthood.
Data from biochemical i and experimental studies support
our findings though many of these reports must be regarded
with caution: There is evidence that non-smokers are exposed
to potential carcinogens through the cigarette smoking of
others. Cigarette-smoke by-products such, as cotinine and
thiocyanate have been measured'in the blood, urine, and
saliva ofnon-smoking adults, children, and fetuses exposed to
smokers,u-TO and'there has been at least one report of raised
levels of mutagens in urine of passive smokers n Greater
activity of earymesthat metabolise bcnza(a)pyrene has been
noted in placentas of amokersis)o and', even passive
smokers.11 Similar increases may occur in tissues of fetuses,
children, or adults exposed to smokers.
Studies in laboratory animals provide evidence in support
of an adult cancer risk from transplacental or childhood
exposure to cigarette smoke, but this hypothesis has not been
TtE LANCET, tEBRU1YRY 9,198 5
tested directl'y:19 Data from these studies show that many
carcinogens, including those in~cigarette smoke, are active
when administered transplacentally or during early life and
may produce effects at lower doses than those required for
adults.33" Some low-dose exposures which are not in
themselves carcinogenic increase the sensitivit~ of exposed
animals to later carcinogenic ezposures.17 In other
experiments tumours resulting from transplacental and early
postnatal exposures were not apparent' until the animals were
fully developed and did not necessarily differ in site or
morphology from spontaneously occurring tumours.32,39
This is consistent with our finding 47f raised~ risk for adult
tumours at many sites.
Future studies should include cancer sites not necessarily
associated with active smoking and should take into account
childhood sources of passive smoke exposure.
Correspondlnce shoild be .ddrescd'~toD. P. S, Epldemiotogy: Branch,
NIEH S, PO Box 12233, Ntail Drop A3-02, Re:uardi Triaoete P.rk NC 277p9
USA:.
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