When the smoking strata were combined and an interaction term was tested between smoking status and welding fume exposure, the interaction terms were highly significant, indicating that the differences in risk estimates between moderate/heavy and non/low smokers were unlikely to be caused by chance (last column of Table 5 ).
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Exposure to welding fumes increases lung cancer risk among light smokers but not among heavy smokers: evidence from two case-control studies in Montreal.
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