Ethnic and Racial Differences in the Smoking-Related Risk of Lung Cancer

There is remarkable variation in the incidence of lung cancer among ethnic and racial groups in the United States.

We investigated differences in the risk of lung cancer associated with cigarette smoking among 183,813 African-American, Japanese-American, Latino, Native Hawaiian, and white men and women in the Multiethnic Cohort Study. Our analysis included 1979 cases of incident lung cancer identified prospectively over an eight-year period, between baseline (1993 through 1996) and 2001.