Abstract:
:Despite the secular trend of decreasing prevalence of smoking and consumption of tobacco in most industrialized countries, the prevalence of smoking in Japan continues to be one of the highest. Based on the alternative measure of population attributable fractions, the present study gives an estimate of the number of deaths and the years of life lost (YLLs) attributable to tobacco in Japan for both 1985 and 1995. This study shows a considerable increase in mortality from tobacco-related diseases over the decade, in particular from lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a consequence of the intensified exposure to tobacco in the early 1960s. Although the period of the highest exposure to tobacco was in the late 1970s, prevalence of smoking is still considerably high in Japan and the burden from tobacco will persist if proper anti-smoking measures are not implemented immediately.
journal_name
Asia Pac J Public Healthjournal_title
Asia-Pacific journal of public healthauthors
Shibuya Kdoi
10.1177/101053959901100203keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
1999-01-01 00:00:00pages
65-70issue
2eissn
1010-5395issn
1941-2479journal_volume
11pub_type
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