Table 3.
Relative Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma According to Household Passive Smoking Exposure Among Never Smokers, California Teachers Study, 1995–2007a
Household Passive Smoking Characteristic | Person-Years | Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma |
Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma |
Follicular Lymphoma |
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma |
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No. of Cases | RR | 95% CI | No. of Cases | RR | 95% CI | No. of Cases | RR | 95% CI | No. of Cases | RR | 95% CI | ||
Never smokers with no passive smoking exposure | 255,211 | 87 | 1.00 | Referent | 27 | 1.00 | Referent | 14 | 1.00 | Referent | 17 | 1.00 | Referent |
Never smokers with passive smoking exposure | 618,868 | 284 | 1.15 | 0.90, 1.46 | 66 | 0.92 | 0.58, 1.44 | 64 | 1.66 | 0.93, 2.98 | 52 | 0.93 | 0.54, 1.62 |
Childhood passive smoking exposure only | 280,155 | 91 | 1.07 | 0.80, 1.44 | 21 | 0.86 | 0.48, 1.54 | 19 | 1.38 | 0.69, 2.76 | 16 | 0.93 | 0.47, 1.85 |
Adulthood passive smoking exposure only | 124,527 | 76 | 1.18 | 0.86, 1.61 | 20 | 1.02 | 0.57, 1.84 | 15 | 1.58 | 0.76, 3.31 | 14 | 0.92 | 0.45, 1.87 |
Both childhood and adulthood passive smoking exposure | 204,464 | 115 | 1.23 | 0.93, 1.63 | 25 | 0.93 | 0.53, 1.61 | 29 | 2.02 | 1.06, 3.87 | 22 | 0.99 | 0.52, 1.88 |
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; RR, relative risk.
All models were stratified by age at cohort entry and adjusted for race (non-Hispanic white or other) and alcohol consumption 1 year before cohort entry (0 g/day, <15 g/day, ≥15 g/day, or unknown). The analyses were restricted to 79,006 never smokers.