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Cancer diagnosis: An opportune time to help patients and their families stop smoking?
  Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of cancer, ill health and premature death in developed countries. Although the decrease in smoking prevalence among adults over the last few decades has been responsible for improvements in cancer mortality rates, tobacco use continues to account for one-third of all cancer deaths and up to 90% of all lung cancer cases.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    13 July 2010

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Elsevier BV

  • DOI:

    10.1016/j.puhe.2010.04.006

  • Cross Ref:

    S003335061000123X

  • ISSN:

    0033-3506

  • Library of Congress:

    RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    610 Medicine & health

Citation

Ozakinci, G., Wells, M., Williams, B., Munro, A., & Donnelly, P. (2010). Cancer diagnosis: An opportune time to help patients and their families stop smoking?. Public Health, 124(8), 479-482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2010.04.006

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Keywords

Smoking, tobacco use, cancer, lung cancer,

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