Smoking and mortality in Asia

(JAMA Network) In this analysis of data from 20 studies conducted in China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and India with more than 1 million participants, deaths associated with smoking continued to increase among men in Asia grouped by the years in which they were born. Among the study participants, there were 144,366 deaths (with 9,158 from lung cancer) during an average follow-up of almost 12 years.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news