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Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors

BMJ, 2004-06, Vol.328 (7455), p.1519-1528 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. ;BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 2004 ;2004 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright: 2004 (c) 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. ;Copyright © 2004, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2004 ;ISSN: 0959-8138 ;ISSN: 0959-8146 ;EISSN: 1468-5833 ;EISSN: 1756-1833 ;DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38142.554479.AE ;PMID: 15213107 ;CODEN: BMJOAE

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Title:
Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors
Author: Doll, Richard ; Peto, Richard ; Boreham, Jillian ; Sutherland, Isabelle
Subjects: 19th century ; 20th century ; Adult ; Age ; Age Distribution ; Age specific mortality rates ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Anti smoking movements ; Biological and medical sciences ; Cause of Death ; Cigarette smoking ; Cigarettes ; Death ; Epidemiologic Methods ; Habits ; Health risk assessment ; Humans ; Life tables ; Lung cancer ; Lung neoplasms ; Lung Neoplasms - mortality ; Male ; Medical research ; Medical sciences ; Middle Aged ; Mortality ; Mortality - trends ; Neoplasms - etiology ; Neoplasms - mortality ; Physicians - statistics & numerical data ; Prospective Studies ; Smoking ; Smoking - mortality ; Smoking cessation ; Smoking Cessation - statistics & numerical data ; Studies ; Tobacco, tobacco smoking ; Toxicology ; United Kingdom - epidemiology ; Young adults
Is Part Of: BMJ, 2004-06, Vol.328 (7455), p.1519-1528
Description: Abstract Objective To compare the hazards of cigarette smoking in men who formed their habits at different periods, and the extent of the reduction in risk when cigarette smoking is stopped at different ages. Design Prospective study that has continued from 1951 to 2001. Setting United Kingdom. Participants 34 439 male British doctors. Information about their smoking habits was obtained in 1951, and periodically thereafter; cause specific mortality was monitored for 50 years. Main outcome measures Overall mortality by smoking habit, considering separately men born in different periods. Results The excess mortality associated with smoking chiefly involved vascular, neoplastic, and respiratory diseases that can be caused by smoking. Men born in 1900-1930 who smoked only cigarettes and continued smoking died on average about 10 years younger than lifelong non-smokers. Cessation at age 60, 50, 40, or 30 years gained, respectively, about 3, 6, 9, or 10 years of life expectancy. The excess mortality associated with cigarette smoking was less for men born in the 19th century and was greatest for men born in the 1920s. The cigarette smoker versus non-smoker probabilities of dying in middle age (35-69) were 42% ν24% (a twofold death rate ratio) for those born in 1900-1909, but were 43% ν 15% (a threefold death rate ratio) for those born in the 1920s. At older ages, the cigarette smoker versus non-smoker probabilities of surviving from age 70 to 90 were 10% ν 12% at the death rates of the 1950s (that is, among men born around the 1870s) but were 7% ν 33% (again a threefold death rate ratio) at the death rates of the 1990s (that is, among men born around the 1910s). Conclusion A substantial progressive decrease in the mortality rates among non-smokers over the past half century (due to prevention and improved treatment of disease) has been wholly outweighed, among cigarette smokers, by a progressive increase in the smoker ν non-smoker death rate ratio due to earlier and more intensive use of cigarettes. Among the men born around 1920, prolonged cigarette smoking from early adult life tripled age specific mortality rates, but cessation at age 50 halved the hazard, and cessation at age 30 avoided almost all of it.
Publisher: London: British Medical Journal Publishing Group
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0959-8138
ISSN: 0959-8146
EISSN: 1468-5833
EISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38142.554479.AE
PMID: 15213107
CODEN: BMJOAE
Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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