Stages of the cigarette epidemic on entering its second century.

Journal article

OBJECTIVES: A four-stage model of the cigarette epidemic was proposed in 1994 to communicate the long delay between the widespread uptake of cigarette smoking and its full effects on mortality, as had been experienced in economically developed countries where cigarette smoking became entrenched decades earlier in men than in women. In the present work, the question of whether qualitative predictions from the model have matched recent trends in smoking and deaths from smoking in countries at v...

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Authors: Thun, M; Peto, R; Boreham, J; Lopez, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Tobacco control
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 96-101
• Publication date: 2012-03-01
• DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050294
• EISSN: 1468-3318
• ISSN: 0964-4563
• Language: English
• Keywords: Middle Aged; Sex Factors; Models, Biological; Humans; Adult; Mortality; Male; Female; Lung Neoplasms; Prevalence; Smoking; Developed Countries; Aged