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© 1989 Oxford University Press

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Characteristics of Past Smokers

IKUKO KATO, SUKETAMI TOMINAGA and TSUGUYOSHI SUZUKI{dagger}

{dagger}Department of Human Ecology, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo University 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.

Kato I (Division of Epidemiology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, 1-1, Kanokoden, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464, Japan), Tominaga S and Suzuki T. Characteristics of past smokers. International Journal of Epidemiology 1989, 18: 345–354.

We studied characteristics of past smokers according to the duration of cessation of smoking based on data from a population-based survey. Lifestyle, prevalences of various symptoms and diseases and other factors were compared among current smokers (8507 males and 2012 females), past smokers (4423 males and 684 females) and non-smokers (2431 males and 12859 females) aged 40 years and over. Compared to current smokers, past smokers consumed more bread, milk, vegetables, fruit and black tea, and less rice, pickles, instant noodles, coffee and alcohol, had lower prevalences of cough, sputum and anorexia, participated more in cancer screening tests, weighed more, included more professional and administrative workers and had more non-smoking spouses. These characteristics resembled those of non-smokers. But past smokers had high prevalences of several cardiovascular and respiratory diseases compared to current smokers. Daily intake of coffee was inversely associated and daily intakes of fruit and milk were positively associated with the duration of abstinence from smoking after adjusting for other factors in both sexes. These results suggest that lifestyle of past smokers may contribute to risk reduction for several diseases

Received 1 October 1988


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