Smoking and inequalities in mortality in 11 European countries: a birth cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To study the trends of smoking-attributable mortality among the low and high educated in consecutive birth cohorts in 11 European countries.

Methods

Register-based mortality data were collected among adults aged 30 to 79 years in 11 European countries between 1971 and 2012. Smoking-attributable deaths were estimated indirectly from lung cancer mortality rates using the Preston-Glei-Wilmoth method. Rate ratios and rate differences among the low and high-educated were estimated and used to estimate the contribution of inequality in smoking-attributable mortality to inequality in total mortality.

Results

In most countries, smoking-attributable mortality decreased in consecutive birth cohorts born between 1906 and 1961 among low- and high-educated men and high-edu

SUBMITTER: Long D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7847590 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature