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Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2012 Aug;49(3):10.1007/s13524-012-0108-x. doi: 10.1007/s13524-012-0108-x

Table 2.

Age-specific lung cancer death rates (per 1,000)

Observed (2004)
 Lifelong Nonsmokersa
Age Men Women Men Women
50–54 0.50 0.31 0.06 0.06
55–59 0.96 0.61 0.05 0.07
60–64 1.80 1.13 0.12 0.12
65–69 2.86 1.75 0.22 0.17
70–74 4.01 2.39 0.35 0.31
75–79 5.08 2.75 0.52 0.33
80–84 5.31 2.80 0.89 0.58
a

From Thun et al. (1997) for death rates of never-smokers in the Cancer Prevention Study Cohort II 1982–1988.