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Smoking and Mortality — Beyond Established Causes

2015; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 372; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmsa1407211

1533-4406

Brian D. Carter, Christian C. Abnet, Diane Feskanich, Neal D. Freedman, Patricia Hartge, Cora E. Lewis, Judith K. Ockene, Ross L. Prentice, Frank E. Speizer, Michael J. Thun, Eric J. Jacobs,

Air Quality and Health Impacts

Mortality among current smokers is 2 to 3 times as high as that among persons who never smoked. Most of this excess mortality is believed to be explained by 21 common diseases that have been formally established as caused by cigarette smoking and are included in official estimates of smoking-attributable mortality in the United States. However, if smoking causes additional diseases, these official estimates may significantly underestimate the number of deaths attributable to smoking.