In the United States, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in both men
and women even though an extensive list of risk factors has been well-characterized. Far …

Background The objective of this study was to summarize the published literature
concerning the epidemiology of lung cancer. Methods A narrative review of published …

Choices are often identity-based but the linkage to identity is not necessarily explicit or
obvious for a number of reasons. First, identities feel stable but are highly sensitive to …

Study objective: To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain
model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking. Setting: Ten municipalities and …

Tobacco use is causally associated with cancers of the lung, larynx, mouth, esophagus,
kidneys, urinary tract, and possibly, breast. Major classes of carcinogens present in tobacco …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to test a life span health behavior model in which
educational attainment and health behaviors (eating habits, smoking, and physical activity) …

Tobacco use has one of the highest rates of addiction and relapse of any abused drug.
Paradoxically, however, in animal models of reinforcement nicotine appears weak …

While the monoamine deficiency hypothesis of depression is still most commonly used to
explain the actions of antidepressant drugs, a growing body of evidence has accumulated …

Much of what is known about the deleterious effects of tobacco use on health was learned
from epidemiologic studies over the last half century. These studies establish unequivocally …

The contribution of common genetic variation to one or more established smoking behaviors
was investigated in a joint analysis of two genome wide association studies (GWAS) …