Impact of reduced tobacco smoking on lung cancer mortality in the United States during 1975-2000.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Considerable effort has been expended on tobacco control strategies in the United States since the mid-1950s. However, we have little quantitative information on how changes in smoking behaviors have impacted lung cancer mortality. We quantified the cumulative impact of changes in smoking behaviors that started in the mid-1950s on lung cancer mortality in the United States over the period 1975-2000.

Methods

A consortium of six groups of investigators used common inputs consisting of simulated cohort-wise smoking histories for the birth cohorts of 1890 through 1970 and independent models to estimate the number of US lung cancer deaths averted during 1975-2000 as a result of changes in smoking behavior that began in the mid-1950s. We also estimated the number of dea

SUBMITTER: Moolgavkar SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3317881 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature