Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years’ observations on male British doctors (PDF: 0.7Mb)
Doll R, Peto R, Boreham J, Sutherland I. BMJ 2004
• gives the final 50-year results from Richard Doll’s study of smoking and death in British doctors, showing the full hazards of persistent cigarette smoking (about 10 years loss of life expectancy) and the benefits of stopping at 60, 50, 40 or 30 years of age (gaining 3, 6, 9 or almost the full 10 years)
Mortality from tobacco in developed countries: indirect estimation from national vital statistics (PDF: 0.8Mb)
Peto R, Lopez A, Boreham J, Thun M, Heath C Jr. Lancet 1992
• described how to make indirect use of national disease-specific mortality rates to estimate tobacco-attributed mortality
Mortality from smoking in developed countries 1950-2000
Peto R, Lopez A, Boreham J, Thun M, Heath C Jr. Oxford University Press 1994
• first edition of the monograph that gave detailed tabulations of tobacco-attributed mortality in each developed country (using the 1992 methods)
Mortality from smoking in developed countries 1950-2000 (2nd edition) (PDF: 3.5Mb)
Peto R, Lopez A, Boreham J, Thun M. June 2006
second edition of the monograph using the same 1992 methods, but applying them to mortality data updated to the year 2000
Country comparisons
Six sets of pairs of pages from the monograph can be viewed. Each set contains one pair of pages for each country (and grouping of countries), to facilitate comparisons between different populations.
For the effects of smoking, main findings and trends:
Main tables and population risks: smoking-attributed & total deaths (PDF: 0.3Mb)
Trends in annual nos. of deaths: smoking-attributed and total (PDF: 0.3Mb)
Trends in annual death rates (all-cause and all cancer): total, smoking-attributed & not (PDF: 0.7Mb)
For overall mortality rates, irrespective of smoking:
Disease-specific mortality by age and sex, year 2000 (PDF: 0.5Mb)
Mortality trends at selected ages: cancer, vascular, respiratory & all causes (PDF: 1.3Mb)
For finer details of smoking-attributed deaths:
Detailed estimates of smoking-attributed deaths by age, sex and disease (PDF: 0.4Mb)
The above material resides on the website of the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit at the University of Oxford
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Central Asia (8 countries)
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