The Role of Smoking in Country Differences in Life Expectancy Across Europe, 1985-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Smoking contributes substantially to mortality levels and trends. Its role in country differences in mortality has, however, hardly been quantified. The current study formally assesses the-so far unknown-changing contribution of smoking to country differences in life expectancy at birth (e0) across Europe.

Methods

Using all-cause mortality data and indirectly estimated smoking-attributable mortality rates by age and sex for 30 European countries from 1985 to 2014, the differences in e0 between each individual European country and the weighted average were decomposed into a smoking- and a nonsmoking-related part.

Results

In 2014, e0 ranged from 70.8 years in Russia to 83.1 years in Switzerland. Men exhibited larger country differences than women (variance

SUBMITTER: Janssen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789949 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature