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Auteur R. PETO |
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Article : Périodique
P. JHA ; C. RAMASUNDARAHETTIGE ; V. LANDSMAN ; B. ROSTRON ; M. THUN ; R. N. ANDERSON ; T. McAFEE ; R. PETO |Background: Extrapolation from studies in the 1980s suggests that smoking causes 25% of deaths among women and men 35 to 69 years of age in the United States. Nationally representative measurements of the current risks of smoking and the benefit[...]![]()
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D. ZARIDZE ; P. BRENNAN ; J. BOREHAM ; BORODA A. ; KARPOV R. ; LAZAREV A. ; KONOBEEVSKAYA I. ; IGITOV V. ; TERECHOVA T. ; P. BOFFETTA ; R. PETO |ENGLISH : BACKGROUND: Alcohol is an important determinant of the high and fluctuating adult mortality rates in Russia, but cause-specific detail is lacking. Our case-control study investigated the effects of alcohol consumption on male and fem[...]![]()
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M. J. THUN ; R. PETO ; A. D. LOPEZ ; J. H. MONACO ; S. J. HENLEY ; C. W., Jr. HEATH ; J. R. C. W. ; R. DOLL |Background - Alcohol consumption has both adverse and beneficial effects on survival. We examined the balance of these in a large prospective study of mortality among U.S. adults. Methods - Of 490, 000 men and women (mean age, 56 years; range,[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
Tripling real cigarette prices would approximately halve cigarette consumption worldwide. Although high excise taxes could increase smuggling, weak customs enforcement (rather than high price) is the main determinant of illegal cigarette sales. [...]![]()
Article : Périodique
On the basis of current smoking patterns, with a global average of about 50% of young men and 10% of young women becoming smokers and relatively few stopping, annual tobacco-attributable deaths will rise from about 5 million in 2010 to more than[...]![]()
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Recent studies have shown that in developed countries, smokers are more likely to die before age 70 than are non-smokers, and the proportion is increasing. For each major developed country, and for various groups of such countries, tables and gr[...]![]()
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Article : Périodique
R. DOLL ; R. PETO ; J. BOREHAM ; I. SUTHERLAND |Background: To relate alcohol consumption patterns to mortality in an elderly population. Methods: We undertook a 23-year prospective study of 12 000 male British doctors aged 48-78 years in 1978, involving 7000 deaths. Questionnaires about drin[...]![]()
Périodique
R. DOLL ; R. PETO ; E. HALL ; WHEATLEY K. ; R. GRAY | 1994ENGLISH : OBJECTIVE--To assess the risk of death associated with various patterns of alcohol consumption. DESIGN--Prospective study of mortality in relation to alcohol drinking habits in 1978, with causes of death sought over the next 13 years[...]![]()
Périodique
R. DOLL ; R. PETO ; J. BOREHAM ; I. SUTHERLAND | 2004FRANÇAIS : Cette étude prospective a été menée de 1951 à 2001. Son objectif était de comparer les risques liés à la consommation de cigarettes chez des hommes ayant pris cette habitude à des moments différents de leur vie, puis d'étudier dans [...]![]()
Article : Périodique
R. PETO ; S. C. DARBY ; H. DEO ; P. SILCOCKS ; E. WHITLEY ; R. DOLL |OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN: To relate UK national trends since 1950 in smoking, in smoking cessation, and in lung cancer to the contrasting results from two large case-control studies centred around 1950 and 1990. SETTING: United Kingdom. PARTICIP[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
K. PIRIE ; R. PETO ; G. K. REEVES ; J. GREEN ; V. BERAL |Background: Women born around 1940 in countries such as the UK and USA were the first generation in which many smoked substantial numbers of cigarettes throughout adult life. Hence, only in the 21st century can we observe directly the full effec[...]![]()
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G. A. GIOVINO ; S. A. MIRZA ; J. M. SAMET ; P. C. GUPTA ; M. J. JARVIS ; N. BHALA ; R. PETO ; W. ZATONSKI ; J. HSIA ; J. MORTON ; K. M. PALIPUDI ; S. ASMA |Background: Despite the high global burden of diseases caused by tobacco, valid and comparable prevalence data for patterns of adult tobacco use and factors influencing use are absent for many low-income and middle-income countries. We assess th[...]