Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2011 Nov 28;171(21):1956–1959. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.539

Figure. Time since quitting, age at quitting and total and cause-specific mortality.

Figure

Current smokers were the reference category, and the horizontal dashed line refers to hazard ratio in never smokers. The multivariate model was adjusted for baseline characteristics, including body-mass index, exercise, alcohol intake, history of diabetes, history of hypertension, history of high cholesterol, parental history of MI prior to 60 years, aspirin treatment, beta-carotene treatment, packs of cigarettes per day, age at started smoking, and age at 60-month questionnaire return. Smoking-related cancers include larynx, kidney, acute myeloid leukemia, oral cavity, esophageal, pancreatic, bladder and stomach cancer.