Tobacco smoking is a known cause of gastric cancer, but several aspects of the association remain imprecisely quantified. We examined the relation between cigarette smoking and the risk of gastric cancer using a uniquely large dataset of 23 epidemiological studies within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project', including 10290 cases and 26145 controls. We estimated summary odds ratios (ORs) and the correspon...