New insights from the British doctors study

摘要: Risks for persistent smoking are substantially larger than previously suspected The cause of the sharp increase in lung cancer rates that began early last century was not well established until Richard Doll and colleagues presented initial findings from British doctors study exactly 50 years ago.1 That paper updates followed provided irrefutable evidence showing extraordinarily adverse health consequences cigarette smoking. The current report represents far more a celebratory milestone public health.2 With extended follow up cohort, this new provides critical information convincingly shows risks actually had been suspected. Indeed, about half to two thirds all smokers will eventually be killed by their habit. This with successive age cohorts, reflecting earlier ages at initiation, death …