Background Use of smokeless tobacco (SLT) products has been linked to multiple adverse
effects, especially precancer and cancer of oral cavity. However, the association of SLT use …

Objectives: We compared long-term survival after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) of never-
smokers, pre-AMI quitters, post-AMI quitters, and persistent smokers and assessed whether …

USA. The criteria for country selection were somewhat arbitrary, largely being based on
geographical location (Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Middle …

Background Mortality among current smokers is 2 to 3 times as high as that among persons
who never smoked. Most of this excess mortality is believed to be explained by 21 common …

Objectives: To estimate the risk of ischaemic heart disease caused by exposure to
environmental tobacco smoke and to explain why the associated excess risk is almost half …

The aim was to study whether occasional smoking increases mortality risk. The mortality of
random samples of the Finnish Adult Health Behavior surveys from 1978 to 1991 were …

Smoking and other forms of tobacco use are major risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
The effect of cigarette smoking on cardiovascular health is evident even at the lowest levels …

Objective: To compare risk of myocardial infarction associated with smoking in men and
women, taking into consideration differences in smoking behaviour and a number of …

Smoking is an established risk factor for cardiovascular events, such as myocardial
infarction, stroke and cardiovascular death. However, most pertinent studies primarily relied …

Background The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of tobacco smoking on the risk
of developing 25 different cancers in patients followed for up to 30 years in general practices …