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Cigarette smoking and life expectancy.
Statistical relationships between smoking and death-rates may be expressed in a number of different ways, the two most common being either in terms of mortality ratios, i.e. the ratio of the death rate from any particular cause in smokers to the death rate from the same cause in non-smokers, or in terms of the differences between the numbers of deaths from various causes in smokers and non-smok...
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The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess, even more so when related consumption choices challenge people's willpower. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered introduction of bans and appl...
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BACKGROUND Although increases in obesity over the past 30 years have adversely affected the health of the U.S. population, there have been concomitant improvements in health because of reductions in smoking. Having a better understanding of the joint effects of these trends on longevity and quality of life will facilitate more efficient targeting of health care resources. METHODS For each yea...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.20.2.101