Smoking and mortality--beyond established causes.

Brian D. Carter; C. Abnet; D. Feskanich; N. Freedman; P. Hartge; C. Lewis; J. Ockene; R. Prentice; F. Speizer; M. Thun; E. Jacobs

DOI:10.1056/NEJMsa1407211

Corpus ID: 34821377

Smoking and mortality--beyond established causes.

@article{Carter2015SmokingAM,
  title={Smoking and mortality--beyond established causes.},
  author={Brian D. Carter and C. Abnet and D. Feskanich and N. Freedman and P. Hartge and C. Lewis and J. Ockene and R. Prentice and F. Speizer and M. Thun and E. Jacobs},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2015},
  volume={372 7},
  pages={
          631-40
        }
}

Brian D. Carter, C. Abnet, +8 authors E. Jacobs

Published 2015

Medicine

The New England journal of medicine

BACKGROUND Mortality among current smokers is 2 to 3 times as high as that among persons who never smoked. Most of this excess mortality is believed to be explained by 21 common diseases that have been formally established as caused by cigarette smoking and are included in official estimates of smoking-attributable mortality in the United States. However, if smoking causes additional diseases, these official estimates may significantly underestimate the number of deaths attributable to smoking… CONTINUE READING

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