Elsevier

Preventive Medicine

Volume 9, Issue 2, March 1980, Pages 169-173
Preventive Medicine

Assessment of risk factor
Smoking and cancer in the United States

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Abstract

Based on the mortality experience of over one million Americans who have been followed in a prospective epidemiologic study since 1959, it is estimated that from 25 to 35% of cancer mortality in the U.S. male population and 5 to 10% in the female population are mainly due to smoking of tobacco products and cigarettes. These estimates are remarkably close to those derived from other U.S. studies and similar studies in the United Kingdom and Japan. While it is clear that several factors contribute to the causation of smoking-related cancer mortality, it is unlikely that the excess in deaths would occur in the absence of tobacco usage. The contribution of smoking is hence considered as the preponderant risk, and one that could be controlled by combined actions of individuals' responses to education, legislation, and modification of cigarettes toward less hazardous characteristics.

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Presented at the American Health Foundation/Deutsche Krebshilfe Conference of the Primary Prevention of Cancer: Assessment of Risk Factors and Future Directions, N.Y., N.Y., June 7–8, 1979.

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