Public health strategies reduce smoking-related premature deaths across the US

Cigarette smoking increases the risk of developing lung cancer and other diseases, but how effective are public health strategies?

Professor Theodore Holford at the Yale School of Public Health, USA, is part of the CISNET Lung Cancer Working Group. His work uses population health models, such as the Smoking History Generator, to show age-period-cohort effects on smoking rates across US states.

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Read the original research: doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.08.018