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Age is one such variable, but even with age we tend to lump a range of persons together when more could probably be learned if we used more age clusterings. Because of phenomena such as menarche or other hormonal changes, the answer is no. With the reduction in smoking in the United States, non-small cell lung cancer is now more common among former smokers than among current smokers.7 A positive note is that during the decade from 2002 to 2011, lung cancer rates among US women decreased by 1.1% to 1.5% among all subgroups except those categorized as Asian and Pacific Islanders.