TY  - JOUR
T1  - Smoking and cervical cancer: Cause or coincidence-reply
AU  - Layde PM
Y1  - 1989/09/22
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1989.03430120081022
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1632
EP  - 1632
VL  - 262
IS  - 12
N2  - In Reply.— 
    Although cigarette smoking may well make a causal contribution to cervical carcinogenesis, Dr Winkelstein overstates the case with his implication that the association of sexual activity with cervical cancer is as likely to be due to confounding as the association of smoking with cervical cancer. The preponderance of evidence from many studies indicates that the major etiologic factor for cervical carcinogenesis is a sexually transmitted agent.1 For example, cervical cancer in virgins is very rare,1,2 while it is not at all uncommon in nonsmokers who have multiple sexual partners. In addition, for the reasons stated in my editorial, I believe sexual activity is a particularly poor surrogate of the likelihood of infection with the sexually transmitted agent of cervical cancer. This both lowers the apparent relative risk (or odds ratio) for the association of sexual activity and cervical cancer and also severely impairs the ability to
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1989.03430120081022
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03430120081022
ER  -