Tobacco consumption and mortality from cancer and other diseases.

摘要: IN 1954 the Public Health Service in coopera,tion with Veterans Administration initiated a study of causes of' death among policyholders U.S. Government life insurance. This insurance was available only to persons who served Armed Forces United States between 1917 and 1940. Although most were veterans World War I, an appreciable number first after tha,t date. All except less than 0.5 percent included this men.