Cigarette Smoking and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Adult Mortality in the United States.

ABSTRACT: This study illuminates the association between cigarette smoking and adult mortality in the contemporary United States. Recent studies have estimated smoking-attributable mortality using indirect approaches or with sample data that are not nationally representative and that lack key confounders. We use the 1990-2011 National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality Files to estimate relative risks of all-cause and cause-specific mortality for current and former smokers compared with never smokers. We examine causes of death established as attributable to smoking as well as additional causes that appear to be linked to smoking but have not yet been declared by the U.S. Surgeon General to be caused by smoking. Mortality risk is substantially elevated among smokers for established causes and

SUBMITTER: Lariscy JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6219821 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature