Table 2

Tobacco attributed mortality in South Africa

	ICD-10	Males					Females					Both sexes
	ICD-10	Smokers	Non-smokers	OR	AF %	n*	Smokers	Non-smokers	OR	AF %	n*	OR	95% CI	AF%	n*
Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) are adjusted for age, sex (where relevant), population group, and education.
*n, Number of tobacco attributed deaths (zero for “exclusions”, because of possible confounding, and for controls).
†Includes cirrhosis, peptic, and oesophageal ulcers, pancreatitis and rheumatic heart disease (which is not included with vascular disease).
‡See Methods.
Cases
Tuberculosis	A15–A19	185	78	1.7	28	73	31	120	1.5	7	11	1.61	1.23 to 2.11	20	84
Other lung infection	J00–J39	103	71	1.2	10	17	26	128	1.3	5	7	1.32	0.98 to 1.75	7	24
COPD	I26–I28; J40–J49	134	55	2.6	47	88	52	96	3.0	24	36	2.53	1.90 to 3.38	37	124
Lung cancer	C33–C34	57	16	3.9	61	5	17	11	6.8	48	13	4.79	2.86 to 8.01	58	58
Oral, pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, sinus cancer	C00–C14; C15, C30–C32	52	19	3.1	53	38	10	19	3.5	28	8	3.04	1.89 to 4.29	46	46
Digestive, urinary, cervical cancer	C16–C26; C53; C64–C68	46	43	1.1	5	5	25	75	1.7	10	10	1.31	0.89 to 1.91	8	15
Ischaemic heart disease	I20–I25	85	75	1.4	18	29	43	97	2.4	18	25	1.69	1.24 to 2.33	18	54
Stroke & other vascular	I10–I15; I30–I45; I47–I49; I60–I99	161	166	1.1	5	17	75	381	1.3	5	21	1.18	0.93 to 1.49	5	38
Total (cases)		(823)	(523)	1.5	10.6	(312)	(279)	(927)	1.7	5.5	(131)	1.6	1.34 to 1.90	8.3	(443)

Controls‡
Total (controls)		(298)	(245)	1.0		–	(92)	(489)	1.0		–	1.00	–		–

Exclusions
Cirrhosis, etc†	K20–K22; K25–K31; F00–F19	77	45	1.4		–	16	47	1.9		–	1.58	1.11 to 2.28		–
Ill defined medical	I46; I50; J95–J99; K90–K92; P00–P99; O00–O99; R60–R99	178	170	1.0		–	61	328	1.1		–	1.06	0.84 to 1.33		–
External causes	V00–V99; W00–W99	372	215	1.2		–	38	117	1.7		–	1.37	1.09 to 1.73		–
Total (exclusions)		(627)	(430)				(115)	(492)

All deaths		1748	1198				486	1908