Deaths from Smoking

Accepting premature deaths from smoking.

1) Smoking cessation 2) Replacement of the pharmacologic (pleasurable) sensations of nicotine in cigarette products with non-cigarette products that can be viewed as providing either medicinal nicotine or analogue chemicals with similar function 3) Reduction in toxic components of cigarette smoke immediately to levels that are suggested by current science as ‘‘acceptable’’ based on existing dos...

Avoidable global cancer deaths and total deaths from smoking

| On the basis of current consumption patterns, approximately 450 million adults will be killed by smoking between 2000 and 2050. At least half of these adults will die between 30 and 69 years of age, losing decades of productive life. Cancer and the total deaths due to smoking have fallen sharply in men in high-income countries but will rise globally unless current smokers, most of whom live i...

Harm reduction over morals to reduce smoking deaths.

Proportions of cancer deaths attributable to cigarette smoking in women.

Over two-thirds of a million American women mostly over age 45 were enrolled in a prospective mortality study in 1982 and followed up for four years. In this time period 1,527 women died of six smoking-related cancer sites: oral cavity, esophagus, pancreas, larynx, lung, and bladder. Age-adjusted death rates in nonsmokers were used to obtain smoking-attributable risks and numbers of deaths due ...

Prison tobacco control policies and deaths from smoking in United States prisons: population based retrospective analysis

OBJECTIVE To determine the mortality attributable to smoking and years of potential life lost from smoking among people in prison and whether bans on smoking in prison are associated with reductions in smoking related deaths. DESIGN Analysis of cross sectional survey data with the smoking attributable mortality, morbidity, and economic costs system; population based time series analysis. SE...