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The 21st century hazards of smoking and benefits of stopping: a prospective study of one million women in the UK

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The results suggest that among UK women born around 1940, two-thirds of all deaths of smokers in their 50s, 60s, and 70s are caused by smoking; smokers lose at least 10 years of lifespan.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2013-01-12 and is currently open access. It has received 626 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mortality rate & Smoking cessation.

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21st-Century Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation in the United States

TL;DR: Smokers lose at least one decade of life expectancy, as compared with those who have never smoked, and cessation before the age of 40 years reduces the risk of death associated with continued smoking by about 90%.
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Smoking Prevalence and Cigarette Consumption in 187 Countries, 1980-2012

TL;DR: Modeled age-standardized prevalence rates exhibited substantial variation across age, sex, and countries, with rates below 5% for women in some African countries to more than 55% for men in Timor-Leste and Indonesia.
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Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Marissa B Reitsma, +233 more
- 13 May 2017 - 
TL;DR: The pace of progress in reducing smoking prevalence has been heterogeneous across geographies, development status, and sex, and as highlighted by more recent trends, maintaining past rates of decline should not be taken for granted, especially in women and in low- SDI to middle-SDI countries.
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International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems

TL;DR: There is substantial global variation in the relative burden of stroke compared with IHD, and the disproportionate burden from stroke for many lower-income countries suggests that distinct interventions may be required.
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Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors

TL;DR: In this article, the British Medical Association forwarded to all British doctors a questionnaire about their smoking habits, and 34440 men replied, with few exceptions, all men who replied in 1951 have been followed for 20 years.
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The Causes of Cancer: Quantitative Estimates of Avoidable Risks of Cancer in the United States Today

TL;DR: Evidence that the various common types of cancer are largely avoidable diseases is reviewed, and it is suggested that, apart from cancer of the respiratory tract, the types of cancers that are currently common are not peculiarly modern diseases and are likely to depend chiefly on some long-established factor.
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Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

TL;DR: Below the range 22.5-25 kg/m(2), BMI was associated inversely with overall mortality, mainly because of strong inverse associations with respiratory disease and lung cancer, despite cigarette consumption per smoker varying little with BMI.

The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General

TL;DR: This new report of the Surgeon General on the health effects of smoking provides a startling picture of the damage to health caused by tobacco use as discussed by the authors, and tragically this injury often leads to incurable disease and death.
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