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... mortality-related factors are small compared to the causal effects of tobacco consumption itself. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1972 1972 Cigarette Smoker Tobacco Smoking American Cancer Society Residual Term United States Population References Davis K...

.... National Institutes of Health . Burns , D.M. , Shanks , T.G. , Choi , W. , Thun , M.J. , Heath , C.W. , & Garfinkel , L. ( 1998 ). “The American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study I: 12-Year Follow-up of 1 Million Men and Women.” . In D.M. Burns , L...

... ). Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . Cancer Facts & Figures 2009 . ( 2009 ). Atlanta, GA : American Cancer Society . Bill-Axelson A. , Holmberg L. , Ruutu M. , Haggman M. , Andersson S.O. , Bratell S. , Spangberg A. , Busch C...

... of smokers and nonsmokers that would produce the observed lung cancer mortality rate for that group. It was assumed that smokers and nonsmokers by population group had the same lung cancer mortality rates as their counterparts in the American Cancer Society Cancer Preventive Study-II (CPS-II), a large...

... ). Cohort studies demonstrating the link between cigarette smoking and individual mortality track the mortality of individuals according to their smoking behavior. The prospective study of British doctors, beginning in 1951 (Doll et al. 2004 ), and the American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Studies...

.... men (American Cancer Society 2018 ). Carter and associates (Carter et al. 2015 ) also included deaths from cancers of unknown primary site and deaths from unknown causes because a portion of these deaths may actually be due to smoking-attributable causes but are not identified as such (Anderson...

... is not as well known as the link between of smoking and CVD and respiratory conditions. However, the American Cancer Society (2004) reported that "smoking increases stomach cancer risk, particu- larly for cancers of the proximal stomach (the upper portion of the stomach closest to the esophagus). The rate...

... in American society (pp. 103 – 131 ). New York : Academic . Steenland K. S. , Henley J. , & Thun M. J. ( 2002 ). All-cause and cause-specific death rates by educational status for two million people in two American Cancer Society cohorts, 1959–1996 . American Journal...

... , 65 ( Supp. 1 ), 72 – 99 . 10.2307/3349952 “Black and White View of Veins.” 1994. Science 265 (July 8):183. Boring , C.C. , Squires , T.S. , Tong , T. , & Montgomery , S. ( 1994 ). Cancer Statistics, 1994 . Atlanta : American Cancer Society . Christenson...

.... ( 2010 ). Reducing obesity in early childhood: Results from Romp & Chomp, an Australian community-wide intervention program . American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 91 , 831 – 840 . Doll , R. , & Hill , A. B. ( 1956 ). Lung cancer and other causes of death in relation...

... particular attention to the deplorable housing, sanitation, and health care contexts in which urban blacks tended to live. Later, Preston and Haines ( 1991 ) comprehensively documented the context of child health in American society around 1900. Although sanitation was poor, health knowledge was low compared...

... Population Association of America 2003 2003 Lung Cancer Gender Equality Smokeless Tobacco Lung Cancer Mortality Diffusion Argument References Beck N. , & Katz J.N. ( 1995 ). What to Do (and What Not to Do) With Time-Series-Cross-Sectional Data . American Political Science...

....tb00874.x Bonney G. E. , Lathrop G. M. , & Lalouel J.-M. ( 1988 ). Combined Linkage and Segregation Analysis Using Regressive Models . American Journal of Human Genetics , 43 , 29 – 37 Breslow N. E. , & Day N. E. ( 1980 ). Statistical Methods in Cancer...

... based on the cumulative number of years of being a smoker at earlier ages and the smoking experiences of older cohorts (see Wang and Preston 2009 for more detail). We smoothed the cohort smoking histories using Lowess (Cleveland 1979 ). Our mortality data came from four sources. Lung cancer death...

... mortality vary over time for young non-Hispanic Black and White males and females aged 15–24. Second, we contrast these trends against trends in the five leading causes of death for Americans aged 15–24 (four external: transport accidents, homicide, suicide, and drug-related; and one internal: cancer...

... ). Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare . Chicago : University of Chicago . Eliassen A.H. , Colditz G.A. , Rosner B. , Willett W.C. , & Hankinson S.E. ( 2006 ). Adult Weight Change and Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer . Journal of the American...

... ). The Incidence of Helicobacter pylori Infection . Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics , 9 ( 2 ), 45 – 41 . Prasad K.N. , & Edwards-Prasad J. ( 1992 ). Vitamin E and Cancer Prevention: Recent Advances and Future Potentials . Journal of the American College of Nutrition , 11 ( 5...

... cancer survivors and their parents . Clinical Psychology Review , 26 , 233 – 256 . Budig M. J. , & England P. ( 2001 ). The wage penalty for motherhood . American Sociological Review , 66 , 204 – 225 . Bygren M. , & Duvander A.-Z . ( 2006 ). Parents...

... and from a selected group of European countries to examine age-specific differences in prevalence and incidence of heart disease, stroke, lung disease, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer as well as mortality associated with each disease. Not surprisingly, we find that Americans have higher disease...

... , & R. J. Serfling (Eds.), Reliability and Biometry (pp. 291 – 302 ). Philadelphia : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . Marshall , A. W. , & Olkin , I. ( 1967 ). A Multivariate Exponential Distribution . Journal of the American Statistical Association , 62...