Erratum to: Cancer Causes Control (2010) 21:2157–2164 DOI 10.1007/s10552-010-9635-1

The authors erroneously included the statement that cases were excluded if they had prior lung disease, which is incorrect. The sentence should read that cases were not excluded if they had prior lung disease as the cases were recruited within a large multi‐ethnic study that queried prior physician diagnosis of COPD, pneumonia, asthma, and hay fever.