Smoking

New smoking study findings reported from S. Allender and co-authors

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 30th, 2009

"Smoking is one of the biggest avoidable causes of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. This paper quantifies the current health and economic burden of smoking in the UK," researchers in Oxford, the United Kingdom report.

"It provides comparisons with previous studies of the burden of smoking in the UK and with the costs for other chronic disease risk factors. A systematic literature review to identify previous estimates of National Health Service costs attributable to smoking was undertaken. Information from the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease Project and routinely collected mortality data were used to calculate mortality due to smoking...

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