Smoking tobacco, oral snuff, and alcohol in the etiology of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
CancerPublished 1 April 1998
Freddi Lewin, Staffan E. Norell, Hemming Johansson, Per Gustavsson, Johan Wennerberg, Anders Bi�rklund
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The authors discuss the impact of tobacco smoking, the use of oral snuff, and alcohol consumption in the etiology of head and neck cancer.
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Tobacco smoking and alcohol intake had a strong interactive effect on the risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Moderate alcohol intake (10-19 grams per day) had little or no effect among nonsmokers. No increased risk was found for the use of Swedish oral snuff.
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