Lung cancer among jewish, catholic and protestant males in New York city

✍ Scribed by Herbert Seidman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 472 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(196602)19:2<185::aid-cncr2820190208>3.0.co;2-o

✦ Synopsis

Vital statistics data for the Caucasian population of New York City show that the l u n g cancer mortality of Jewish males is now decidedly lower than that of Catholic or Protestant males. Jewish males have reversed with time from being a high lung cancer rate group, relative to the Catholics or Protestants, to being a low rate group. Data from a study in 1959 of Caucasian men living i n large cities of the United States other than New York City indicate that the proportion of men smoking cigarettes was lowest in Jews a n d highest i n Catholics. Among the cigarette smokers Jewish men smoked fewer cigarettes.

More Jews smoked pipes and/or cigars, only. Also, the proportion of men occupationally exposed to inhalants such as gas, dust or fumes was smallest in Jews.

HE DIFFERENCES IN LUNG CANCER MORTAL-

T ity among Jewish, Catholic and Protestant