Impacts of early smoking initiation: long-term trends of lung cancer mortality and smoking initiation from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Great Britain.

ABSTRACT: To show long-term trends of smoking initiation in Great Britain including unanalysed data and assess the impact of early smoking initiation on the lung cancer mortality in later ages focusing on birth cohorts. Reanalysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys conducted 13 times during 1965-1987. Great Britain. Men and women aged 16 years and over in each survey. Smoking initiation for 1898-1969 birth cohorts and lung cancer mortality in 1950-2009. In men, 1900-1925 birth cohorts showed high smoking initiation (>32%, >50% and >80% at 15, 17 and 29 years old, respectively). Correspondingly, the lung cancer mortality in these cohorts exceeded 1 per 1000 at a young age (50-54 years old). In women, smoking initiation increased clearly from the 1898 cohort to the 1925 cohort (2% to 12%, 4% to 24%,

SUBMITTER: Funatogawa I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3488725 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature