Smoking cessation
NEW YORK, August 7 (Praxis Press) By 1950, about 80% of men and 40% of women in the United Kingdom smoked, but decades would pass before the health effects of long-term smoking and smoking cessation could be quantified. Peto and colleagues studied national trends in smoking prevalence and lung cancer rates. The epidemiologic study included hospitalized patients with and without lung cancer in 1950 and 1990; it also included 1,465 case-control pairs from the 1950 study and 982 cases and 3,185 con
The Scientist Staff
Aug 7, 2000
NEW YORK, August 7 (