Smoking counts: experience of implementing questions on smoking on official death certification systems

We describe our experience in several settings, following a suggestion in 1983 to add questions on the smoking status of the deceased on the UK death certificate as an effective way to monitor the evolution of the smoking epidemic. In South Africa in 1997 and in Tianjin Municipality, China, in 2010,...

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Main Authors: Sitas, F, Bradshaw, D, Egger, S, Jiang, G, Peto, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2018