The incidence and mortality from lung cancer is decreasing in the US due to decades of
public education and tobacco control policies, but are increasing elsewhere in the world …

A worldwide lung cancer epidemic has occurred during the 20th century. Although the
incidence of lung cancer is presently declining among middle-aged men in some countries …

Abstract The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco causes approximately 5
million deaths annually worldwide, a number expected to double by 2025. Cigarette …

In the United States, the 20th century witnessed the emergence of a lung cancer epidemic
that peaked and began to decline by the century's end, a decline that continues today …

In the United States, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in both men
and women even though an extensive list of risk factors has been well-characterized. Far …

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and worldwide. Lung
cancer was rare in the nineteenth century, but its incidence increased dramatically …

Background: Ever since a lung cancer epidemic emerged in the mid-1900s, the
epidemiology of lung cancer has been intensively investigated to characterize its causes …

Lung cancer is the most frequent cancer worldwide, accounting for about 12% of all new
cancer diagnoses in the two sexes combined. During the 1950s and 1960s clear evidence …

Tobacco is the world's single most avoidable cause of death. The World Health Organization
has calculated that the 5.6 trillion cigarettes smoked per year at the close of the twentieth …

Efforts to understand trends in and patterns of lung cancer are well served by studies of
trends in and patterns of tobacco use. In the United States, the manufactured cigarette …