Estimating the burden of disease attributable to smoking in South Africa in 2000

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 674-681

  Groenewald, Pam ^a   Vos, Thoe ^b   Norman, Rosana ^a   Laubscher, Ria ^a   van Walbeek, Corné ^c   Saloojee, Yussuf ^d   Sitas, Freddy ^e   Bradshaw, Debbie ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d National Council Against Smoking   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LAW; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMOKING CESSATION; SOUTH AFRICA; STROKE; UNSAFE SEX; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COST OF ILLNESS; MIDDLE AGED; RACE; SMOKING; STATISTICS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 38449122389     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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