OBJECTIVES: To support policies to tackle socio-economic inequalities in smoking,
monitoring systems should include information on smoking according to socio-economic …

Socioeconomic adversity is among the foremost fundamental causes of human suffering,
and this is no less true in old age. Recent reports on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality …

Objective: To examine whether trends in smoking behaviour in Western Europe between
1985 and 2000 differed by education group. Design: Data of smoking behaviour and …

Objective: To determine those groups who are at increased risk of smoking related diseases,
we assessed in which male and female generations smoking was more prevalent among …

Aim To provide a population-based characterization of sociodemographic and clinical risk
and protective factors associated with consumption of alcohol, tobacco, or both as a coping …

For a long time, studies of socioeconomic gradients in health have limited their attention to
between-group comparisons. Yet, ignoring the differences that might exist within groups and …

Background: While the incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is similar across the
world (range, 1.0 to 2.5/100 000), a latitude gradient from north to south has been observed …

Lung cancer remains one the most common cancers in Europe and ranks first in terms of
cancer mortality in both sexes. Incidence rates vary by region and depend above all on the …

Introduction: Since the 1990s, there has been a downturn in mortality for specific types of
tumour in Spain and other European countries. This article reports on the current situation of …

Our objective was to examine social class and educational differences in long-term smoking
cessation success among a cohort of smokers attending a specialized smoking clinic. We …