Social inequalities in male mortality, and in male mortality from smoking: indirect estimation from national death rates in England and Wales, Poland, and North America
The LancetPublished 1 July 2006
Prabhat Jha, Richard Peto, Witold Zatoński, Jillian Boreham, M. J. Jarvis, Alan D López
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Most, but not all, of the substantial social inequalities in adult male mortality during the 1990s were due to the effects of smoking.
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In these populations, most, but not all, of the substantial social inequalities in adult male mortality during the 1990s were due to the effects of smoking. Widespread cessation of smoking could eventually halve the absolute differences between these social strata in the risk of premature death.
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