Table 2.
Association between selected industries and lung cancer risk in the French West Indies.
| Industries # | NAF Codes | Cases n = 147 |
Controls n = 405 |
OR * | 95% CI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture, hunting, and related service activities | 01 | 21 | 54 | 1.4 | 0.7–2.6 |
| Growing of cereals and other crops n.e.c. | 011A | 12 | 19 | 2.5 | 1.0–6.3 |
| Growing of fruit, nuts, beverage, and spice crops | 011F | 7 | 16 | 1.1 | 0.4–2.9 |
| Manufacture of food products, beverages, and tobacco | 15 | 13 | 44 | 0.9 | 0.4–1.9 |
| Manufacture of distilled potable alcoholic beverages | 159A | 8 | 11 | 1.7 | 0.6–5.3 |
| Construction | 45 | 22 | 100 | 0.7 | 0.4–1.3 |
| Construction of single-family houses | 452A | 8 | 35 | 0.6 | 0.2–1.6 |
| General construction of building and civil engineering works | 452B | 6 | 28 | 0.8 | 0.3–2.3 |
| Sale, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles; retail sale of automotive fuel | 50 | 10 | 33 | 1.1 | 0.5–2.5 |
| Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles | 502Z | 8 | 13 | 2.2 | 0.8–5.9 |
| Wholesale trade and commission trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 51 | 10 | 20 | 1.3 | 0.5–3.1 |
| Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles and personal and household goods | 52 | 33 | 67 | 1.5 | 0.8–2.5 |
| Retail sale of food and beverages in non-specialized stores | 521B | 8 | 14 | 1.4 | 0.5–4.0 |
| Hotels and restaurants | 55 | 10 | 32 | 0.9 | 0.4–2.0 |
| Land transport; transport via pipelines | 60 | 6 | 33 | 0.4 | 0.1–1.1 |
| Other business activities | 74 | 6 | 37 | 0.4 | 0.2–1.2 |
| Public administration and defence; compulsory social security | 75 | 36 | 147 | 0.6 | 0.3–0.9 |
| General (overall) public service activities | 751A | 21 | 49 | 1.2 | 0.7–2.2 |
| Defence activities | 752C | 12 | 101 | 0.2 | 0.1–0.5 |
| Education | 80 | 30 | 109 | 0.9 | 0.5–1.5 |
| Primary education | 801Z | 10 | 23 | 1.3 | 0.6–3.1 |
| General secondary education | 802A | 8 | 30 | 0.8 | 0.3–2.1 |
| Technical and vocational secondary education | 802C | 8 | 23 | 2.1 | 0.8–5.3 |
| Adult and other education n.e.c. | 804C | 5 | 31 | 0.4 | 0.2–1.3 |
| Health and social work | 85 | 20 | 53 | 0.7 | 0.4–1.4 |
| Hospital activities | 851A | 12 | 28 | 0.9 | 0.4–2.0 |
| Activities of membership organisations n.e.c. | 91 | 5 | 9 | 0.7 | 0.2–2.0 |
| Recreational, cultural, and sporting activities | 92 | 5 | 25 | 0.7 | 0.2–1.9 |
| Other service activities | 93 | 5 | 7 | 1.6 | 0.3–7.4 |
| Activities of households as employers of domestic staff | 95 | 17 | 37 | 1.1 | 0.5–2.1 |
# Industries with at least 5 cases. * ORs adjusted for sex, age (continuous), region, smoking status (never smokers, ex-smokers, smokers), and cumulative quantity of cigarettes in pack-years (continuous).