Quantitative relationship between cumulative cigarette consumption and lung cancer mortality in Japan
Author(s) -
Nobuyasu Yamaguchi,
Y. Mochizuki-Kobayashi,
Osamu Utsunomiya
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/29.6.963
Subject(s) - lung cancer , medicine , cumulative risk , cigarette smoking , environmental health , consumption (sociology) , epidemiology , demography , oncology , social science , sociology
Sufficient evidence has been accumulated to demonstrate the causal relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer risk. Therefore, the lung cancer risk of a country is supposedly determined by the amount of cigarettes consumed in the country, but this quantitative relationship has yet to be clarified at a national level.
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