Select Committee on Health Minutes of Evidence


Appendix 1

Table 2

PERCENTAGE OF MEN ATTENDING MASSACHUSETTS CANCER CLINICS WITH DIFFERENT CANCERS, BY SMOKING HABIT (Potter & Tulley, 1945)


Cancer of
Use of toabacco (No of men)
buccal cavity
respiratory tract
other sites

None (655)
3.7
0.5
22.4
Slight (357)
8.1
1.1
25.1
Moderate (1,155)
11.5
2.0
26.0
Excessive (760)
17.9
1.7
23.4




 
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