showed a much lower mortality rate among Asiatic and African-born immigrants than among those born in Europe. The age-specific mortality rate from lung cancer among European born male immigrants was 57.3 per 100,000 as compared with 27.6 among Asiatic and African born. Further studies have shown that if this Asiatic-African born rate was broken down into individual communities, it appeared that the death rates for immigrants from Turkey (54.3) and North Africa (56-2) were on the same level as those for European Jews, while the low Oriental rate was the result of the low figures for immigrants from Iraq (24.3) and the very low value for Yemenite Jews (7.2 for 100,000) (Kallner, 1961).
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