Cigarette smoking: an epidemiological overview
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Cigarette smoking: an epidemiological overview.
The detailed mortality and morbidity statistics on smoking tend to conceal the overall impact of the habit on health. About 3 million people die each year from smoking in economically developed countries, half of them before the age of 70. Cancers of eight sites are recognized as being caused by smoking--lung cancer almost entirely and the others (upper respiratory, bladder, pancreas, oesophagu...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0007-1420,1471-8391
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011530