Mortality from smoking worldwide

Mortality from smoking worldwide.

Estimates are made of the numbers and proportions of deaths attributable to smoking in 44 developed countries in 1990. In developed countries as a whole, tobacco was responsible for 24% of all male deaths and 7% of all female deaths, rising to over 40% in men in some former socialist economies and 17% in women in the USA. The average loss of life for all cigarette smokers was about 8 years and ...

Worldwide mortality from cirrhosis.

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proportion of mortality attributable to tobacco worldwide

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Mortality from benign prostatic hyperplasia: worldwide trends 1950-92.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To provide a systematic overview of worldwide trends in mortality from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) over the past four decades. DESIGN This was a descriptive analysis based on age adjusted mortality rates for BPH between 1950 and 1992 for 41 countries from five continents. SETTING Official death certifications from the World Health Organization database. MAIN RESULTS...

Smoking and mortality from coalworkers' pneumoconiosis.