Authors: Pesce, Giancarlo, Marcon, Alessandro, Calciano, Lucia, Perret, Jennifer L., Abramson, Michael J., Bono, Roberto, Bousquet, Jean, Fois, Alessandro G., Janson, Christer, Jarvis, Deborah, Jõgi, Rain, Leynaert, Benedicte, Nowak, Dennis, Schlunssen, Vivi, Urrutia-Landa, Isabel, Verlato, Giuseppe, Villani, Simona, Zuberbier, Torsten, Minelli, Cosetta, Accordini, Simone, Boezen, Marike, Elger, Bernice, Gleditsch, Bo Alexander, Heijmans, Bas, Romieu, Isabelle, Thompson, John
Venue: PLOS ONE
Type: Publication
Abstract: BackgroundSmoking is the main risk factor for most of the leading causes of death. Cessation is the single most important step that smokers can take to improve their health. With the aim of informing policy makers about decisions on future tobacco control strategies, we estimated time and age trends in smoking cessation in Europe between 1980 and 2010.MethodsData on the smoking history of 50,228 lifetime smokers from 17 European countries were obtained from six large population-based studies included in the Ageing Lungs in European Cohorts (ALE...
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Topics: 
Demography
Gerontology
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