Estimated impact of a tobacco-elimination strategy on lung-cancer mortality in 185 countries: a population-based birth-cohort simulation study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The tobacco-free generation aims to prevent the sale of tobacco to people born after a specific year. We aimed to estimate the impact of eliminating tobacco smoking on lung-cancer mortality in people born during 2006-10 in 185 countries.

Methods

For this population-based birth-cohort simulation study, we proposed a scenario in which tobacco sales were banned for people born between Jan 1, 2006, and Dec 31, 2010, and in which this intervention was perfectly enforced, quantified until Dec 31, 2095. To predict future lung-cancer mortality rates, we extracted lung-cancer mortality data by sex, 5-year age group, and 5-year calendar period for countries with at least 15 years of data from the WHO Mortality Database. For countries for which mortality data were not availa

SUBMITTER: Rey Brandariz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11447277 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature