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M M Kristein

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PubMed1984

40 years of U.S. cigarette smoking and heart disease and cancer mortality rates.

This paper reviews some recent studies of the associations between cigarette smoking and mortality rates. It also reports on time series correlation studies of the relationships between per capita cigarette smoking and mortality rates for heart disease and respiratory cancer for the period 1940-1979 for the United States. Major findings tend to support the view that there is a 20 year lag relationship between smoking (especially number of cigarettes consumed per capita) and respiratory cancer mortality, while there appears to be no lag in the relationship of smoking (especially pounds of tobacco consumed per capita) to heart disease mortality. Smoking is found to explain over 90% of the variance in the relationship between smoking and respiratory cancer mortality, while it explains only 50% of the variance between smoking and heart disease mortality.

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PubMed1983

How much can business expect to profit from smoking cessation?

The data reviewed in this article, drawn from well-known, published sources; offer an estimate of the annual costs of smoking to the average employer. These costs range from +336 to +601 in January 1980 dollars per average smoking employee. The analysis is largely based on aggregate epidemiological data and, in general, the emphasis is on the under-estimating of the costs to business. It reports "averages" true for large populations and, therefore, is not individually predictive. The cost centers dealt with are insurance, medical, and others such as absenteeism, productivity, involuntary smoking, and occupational health risk. Included is a discussion of employer-sponsored smoking cessation programs and the benefits therefrom.

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