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Smoking and Drinking in Relation to Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer

National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 [W. J. B., J. K. M., J. F. F.]; National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782 [D. M. W.]; California State Department of Health Services, Emeryville, California 94608 [D. F. A.]; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 [R. S. G.]; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033 [S. P-M., L. B.]; and New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton, New Jersey 08625 [J. B. S., A. S.]

A case-control study of oral and pharyngeal cancer conducted in four areas of the United States provided information on the tobacco and alcohol use of 1114 patients and 1268 population-based controls. Because of the large study size, it could be shown that the risks of these cancers among nondrinkers increased with amount smoked, and conversely that the risks among nonsmokers increased with the level of alcohol intake. Among consumers of both products, risks of oropharyngeal cancer tended to combine more in a multiplicative than additive fashion and were increased more than 35-fold among those who consumed two or more packs of cigarettes and more than four alcoholic drinks/day. Cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking were separately implicated, although it was shown for the first time that risk was not as high among male lifelong filter cigarette smokers. Cessation of smoking was associated with a sharply reduced risk of this cancer, with no excess detected among those having quit for 10 or more years, suggesting that smoking affects primarily a late stage in the process of oropharyngeal carcinogenesis. The risks varied by type of alcoholic beverage, being higher among those consuming hard liquor or beer than wine. The relative risk patterns were generally similar among whites and blacks, and among males and females, and showed little difference when oral and pharyngeal cancers were analyzed separately. From calculations of attributable risk, we estimate that tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking combine to account for approximately three-fourths of all oral and pharyngeal cancers in the United States.

¹ To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Division of Cancer Etiology, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Received 11/16/87. Revised 2/15/88. Accepted 3/ 4/88.

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