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Table S1: Characteristics of selected cohorts that analyzed lung cancer mortality rates among lifelong nonsmokers | Unnamed: 1 | Unnamed: 2 | Unnamed: 3 | Unnamed: 4 | Unnamed: 5 | Unnamed: 6 | Unnamed: 7 | Unnamed: 8 | Unnamed: 9 | Unnamed: 10 | Unnamed: 11 | Unnamed: 12 | Unnamed: 13 | Unnamed: 14 | Unnamed: 15 | Unnamed: 16 | Unnamed: 17 | Unnamed: 18 | Unnamed: 19 | Unnamed: 20 | Unnamed: 21
 | US |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Japan |  |  |  |  |  | Korea
 | CPS-I |  | NHS |  | HPFS |  | CPS-II |  | MEC |  | WHS |  | BWHS |  | [NAME] |  | [NAME] |  | Three Prefectures |  | KCPS
Dates of follow-up | 1959-1972 |  | 1976-2004 |  | 1986-2004 |  | 1982-2003 |  | 1993-2002 |  | 1993 - 2006 |  | 1995-2005 |  | 1966-1982 |  | 1988-1990 |  | 1983/1985- 1995 |  | 1992-2004
Age at baseline (yrs) | 30+ |  | 30-55 |  | 40+ |  | 30+ |  | 45-75 |  | 45+ |  | 21-69 |  | 40+ |  | 40-79 |  | 40-80 |  | 30-95
Number of never smokers | Men:       95,949 Women: 391,747 |  | Women: 48,904 |  | Men: 22,148 |  | Men:     127,040 Women: 355,395 |  | Men:      17,280 Women: 40,238 |  | Women: 19,338 |  | Women: 37,181 |  | ? |  | Men:        9,167 Women: 51,588 |  | Men:       7,590 Women: 36,884 |  | Men:       160,276* Women: 443,273*
Person-years | Men:      1,048,920 Women: 4,421,314 |  | Women: 1,291,067 |  | Men: 358,911 |  | Men:      2,402,051 Women: 6,933,201 |  | Men:     160,992    Women: 380,507 |  | Women:  214,603 |  | Women: 324,697 |  | Men:        310,506 Women: 1,816,199 |  | Men:       74,566 Women: 421,548 |  | Men:       64,645 Women: 321,170 |  | Men:      2,145,097 Women: 5,293,906
Lung cancer deaths | Men:      204 Women: 565 |  | Women: 126 |  | Men: 56 |  | Men:        688 Women: 1,675 |  | Men: 26 Women: 69 |  | Women: 11 |  | Women: 15 |  | Men:        87 Women:  328 |  | Men:       32 Women: 101 |  | Men:     23 Women: 79 |  | Men:     450 Women: 883
Ethnicity | Mostly white |  | White |  | White |  | Mostly white |  | White, [NAME], [NAME] |  | Mostly white |  | Afr Amer |  | Japanese |  | Japanese |  | Japanese |  | Korean
Follow-up for lung cancer deaths | Vital status obtained by personal inquiries by volunteers; death records for cause of death |  | Deaths confirmed by NDI |  | Deaths confirmed by NDI |  | Deaths updated bienially through linkage with National Death Index |  | Linkage to CA and HI state cancer registries |  | Medical record review after reports from next-of-kin, NDI linkage |  | NDI linkage |  | Death records for health centers searched monthly |  | Vital status determined using resident registration records; cause of death from death records |  | Vital status obtained from residential registries; lung cancer death ascertained from population cancer registry |  | Death certificates identified using ID numbers assigned at birth
Smoking data | Baseline questions at time of enrollment |  | Baseline questions at time of enrollment, updated every 2 years |  | Baseline questions at time of enrollment, updated every 2 years |  | Baseline questions at time of enrollment |  | Baseline questions at time of enrollment |  | Baseline questions at time of enrollment |  | Baseline questions administered at time of enrollment, updated every 2 years |  | Baseline questions at time of enrollment |  | Baseline questions at time of enrollment |  | Baseline questions at time of enrollment |  | Obtained during check-up visits between 1992-1995
*Calculated from published data
Abbreviations as follows:
BWHS= Black Women's Health Study [20]
CPS-I,II = Cancer Prevention Study I,II [4]
[NAME] = Six Prefectures Study 24]
JACC=Japanese Collaborative Cohort Study [25]
HPFS= Health Professional Follow-up Study [21]
KCPS=Korean Cancer Prevention Study [27]
MEC=[NAME] [22]
NHS = Nurses' Health Study [21]
Three Prefecturs = Three Prefectures Study [26]
WHS = Women's Health Study [23]