Association of Smoking Initiation and Cessation Across the Life Course and Cancer Mortality: Prospective Study of 410 000 US Adults

Blake Thomson; Jonathan Emberson; Ben Lacey; Sarah Lewington; Richard Peto; Farhad Islami

doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.4949

Association of Smoking Initiation and Cessation Across the Life Course and Cancer Mortality: Prospective Study of 410 000 US Adults

JAMA Oncol. 2021 Dec 1;7(12):1901-1903. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.4949.

Authors

Blake Thomson¹, Jonathan Emberson², Ben Lacey², Sarah Lewington², Richard Peto², Farhad Islami¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surveillance and Health Equity Science, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Abstract

This cohort study investigates the association between age at smoking initiation and cessation and cancer mortality using National Health Interview Survey data.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Health Behavior
Humans
Life Change Events*
Neoplasms* / epidemiology
Prospective Studies
Smoking / adverse effects
Smoking / epidemiology

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding