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work_llxze7aszrgbzklmxtknbmseca	Keum Ji Jung	Smoking effect on lung cancer: ethnic difference and smoking paradox	2016	6	.pdf	application/pdf	4361	408	70	smoking for lung cancer in Western and Asian countries. We extracted data from the relevant studies about annual tobacco consumption, lung cancer mortality rates according to smoking status from each country, and Although a significantly greater risk of lung cancer was present among current smokers in Asian countries, the RRs in Asian countries were much lower than Interestingly, however, the magnitude of the effect of smoking on lung cancer was different between Western and Asian countries, with a smaller effect size smoking paradox, we reviewed selected well-established epidemiologic studies from Western and Asian countries. First, a significantly greater risk of lung cancer mortality was found among current smokers than among non-smokers in Asian countries (RRs, 4.0 to 4.6 for Koreans; 3.7 to 5.1 the risk for lung cancer mortality associated with cigarette smoking has been reported to be lower in Asian countries than in Western countries.	./cache/work_llxze7aszrgbzklmxtknbmseca.pdf	./txt/work_llxze7aszrgbzklmxtknbmseca.txt