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Editors note: For a discussion of this paper, see page 958. It is four years since the evidence for an association between smoking and cervical cancer was reviewed (1). At that time, 18 studies provided relevant data (2-19). Fif-teen studies supported the hypothesis that cigarette smoking and cervical cancer are associated and three studies did not. Of the three negative studies, one included smoking-related diseases among the con-trols (3), the second accepted the null hy-pothesis on the basis of a p value of 0.06 and has been criticized for its method of selecting controls and data analysis (10, 20), and the third was conducted in a town-
Warren Winkelstein (Fri,) studied this question.