Smoking in Ontario, 1991 to 1996.

African American Teen Cigarette Smoking: A Review

the lowest among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States. From 1978 to 1991, smoking rates declined for both males and females in this group (Bachman et al., 1991). The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study showed that in 1978, 24.9 percent of African American high school seniors had smoked a cigarette daily, whereas only 4.1 percent reported this activity in 1991 (Johnston et al., 1996)....

Health and social costs of tobacco use in Ontario, Canada, 1979 and 1988.

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study aimed to estimate the health and social costs of tobacco use in Ontario, Canada. DESIGN This was a cost-benefit analysis based on cross sectional data in 1988, stratified by age and sex, using an attributable risk model. The total cost of the consequences of tobacco use in the society included those costs attributed to extra deaths, disability, hospitalisation, phys...

Wheat area price response in iran 1960-61 to 1991-92

Clinical measures, smoking, radon exposure, and risk of lung cancer in uranium miners.

OBJECTIVES Exposure to the radioactive daughters of radon is associated with increased risk of lung cancer in mining populations. An investigation of incidence of lung cancer following a clinical survey of Ontario uranium miners was undertaken to explore whether risk associated with radon is modified by factors including smoking, radiographic silicosis, clinical symptoms, the results of lung fu...

Patterns of family responses to alcohol and tobacco problems.

Patterns of family response to drinking and smoking were studied in a sample of 1034 adults in Ontario in 1993. Concerning tobacco smoking, 69% of respondents reported having said something to a relative and 82% to a friend; concerning drinking, 46% had said something to a relative and 65% to a friend. Having said something did not vary much with the respondent's age, educational level and smok...