The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.

Chapter 8 Other Cancers

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Other Cancers: Kidney, Bladder, and Prostate Cancer

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Smoking is responsible for 30% to 40% of all bladder cancers; active smokers have

as much as seven times the risk for bladder cancer and five times the risk for cancer

of the renal pelvis as nonsmokers.

Clinics in Chest Medicine, December 1991, p. 645

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"One study has estimated more than a doubling of penile cancer risk among men who

smoke more than 10 cigarettes per day as compared with nonsmokers. Another

study has estimated more than a tripling of risk for people with a history of more than

45 pack-years."

Cigarettes, p. 96

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Smoking has not been determined to increase risk for prostate cancer, but if men with

prostate cancer smoke, the smoking appears to cause their cancer to become more

invasive and aggressive.

Cigarettes, p. 96

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In a nine-year study of 450,000 men, those who developed prostate cancer and

continued to smoke had a 34% greater likelihood of dying from the prostate cancer

than men who had never smoked.

American Journal of Epidemiology 145:466, 1997

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Women who smoke and who are infected with genital warts have a much higher risk

of genital and vulvar cancer than other women.

Reuters and ABC News, October 14, 1997

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