• DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2796.2002.00993.x
Corpus ID: 9172672

Tobacco use, cancer causation and public health impact.

@article{Kuper2002TobaccoUC,
  title={Tobacco use, cancer causation and public health impact.},
  author={Hannah Kuper and H-O Adami and Paolo Boffetta},
  journal={Journal of internal medicine},
  year={2002},
  volume={251 6},
  pages={
          455-66
        }
}

Hannah Kuper, H-O Adami, Paolo Boffetta

Published in Journal of internal medicine 2002

Medicine

This review describes global patterns of tobacco use and the mechanisms by which tobacco use is involved in carcinogenesis. A second part will discuss the association between tobacco use and risk of specific cancer types. Tobacco use has traditionally been a practice of high-income countries, but it has recently been taken up in low-income countries and it is particularly common in men. A wide variety of tobacco products exist, of which cigarettes are most frequently consumed. Tobacco products… CONTINUE READING

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