Titre : | Smoking |
Auteurs : | C. A. NATHANSON |
Type de document : | Chapitre |
Editeur : | New York, NY : Russell Sage Foundation, 2007 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-87154-644-9 |
Format : | 109-159 |
Note générale : | In: Disease prevention as social change: The state, society, and public health in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada, Nathanson C.A., 2007, New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SAN (Santé publique / Public health) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés TABAC ; SANTE PUBLIQUE ; PREVENTION ; PREVALENCE ; POLITIQUE ; LEGISLATION ; LOI EVIN ; LUTTE ; TABAGISME PASSIFThésaurus géographique ETATS-UNIS ; FRANCE ; ROYAUME-UNI ; CANADA |
Résumé : | The connection between smoking and lung cancer was established, to all intents and purposes, simultaneously by British and American investigators following virtually identical scientific pathways. An “alarming” rise in death rates attributed to cancer of the lung was observed in both countries in the late 1940s, in England by statisticians employed by the registrar-general's office and in the United States by epidemiologists at the American Cancer Society (Lock, Reynolds, and Tansey 1998; Nathanson 1999; Kluger 1996). In 1950 retrospective case-control studies concluding, in the words of the British study, that "smoking is a factor, and an important factor, in the... [Extract] |
Domaine : | Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette |
Lien : | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610444194 |
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