Table 2 shows the baseline characteristics of participants stratified by their smoking trajectory
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We excluded two of the selected diseases (peptic ulcer and renal pelvic cancer), resulting in the following 12 tobacco-related diseases: oropharyngeal cancer (ICD-9-CM: 141, 143-146, 148, 149), esophageal cancer (150), gastric cancer (151), lung cancer (162), pancreatic cancer (157), bladder cancer (188), laryngeal cancer (161), IHD (410-414), stroke (430-438), diseases of arteries, arterioles, and capillaries (440-448, hereafter referred to as arteriosclerosis), pneumonia and influenza (480-487), and COPD (490-492, 496)
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