0.169 is the approximate lifetime risk of getting lung cancer for men who smoke.
In the United States, about 10 to 20% of lung cancer cases, or 20,000 to 40,000 lung cancers each year, occur in people who have never smoked or have smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime.
In this case, if we talk about the risk of smokers in terms of the risk of non-smokers, so the baseline risk is the risk for the non-smokers. So the baseline risk for lung cancer in men over an entire lifetime is the risk of lung cancer for men who have never smoked, over their lifetime, which is =0.013
The approximate lifetime risk of getting ling cancer, for male smokers, can be calculated as being 13 times the base risk= 0.169
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