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Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco by Jha, Prabhat, Peto, Richard

“…Cigarette smoking is a major cause of illness and death. This article reviews both the magnitude of the disease burden from cigarette smoking worldwide and…”
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Quantitative implications of the approximate irrelevance of mammalian body size and lifespan to lifelong cancer risk by Peto, Richard

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The 21st century hazards of smoking and benefits of stopping: a prospective study of one million women in the UK by Pirie, Kirstin, MSc, Peto, Richard, Prof, Reeves, Gillian K, PhD, Green, Jane, DPhil, Beral, Valerie, Prof

“…Summary Background Women born around 1940 in countries such as the UK and USA were the first generation in which many smoked substantial numbers of cigarettes…”
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Does happiness itself directly affect mortality? The prospective UK Million Women Study by Liu, Bette, DPhil, Floud, Sarah, PhD, Pirie, Kirstin, MSc, Green, Jane, Prof, Peto, Richard, Prof, Beral, Valerie, Prof

“…Summary Background Poor health can cause unhappiness and poor health increases mortality. Previous reports of reduced mortality associated with happiness could…”
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21st-Century Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation in the United States by Jha, Prabhat, Ramasundarahettige, Chinthanie, Landsman, Victoria, Rostron, Brian, Thun, Michael, Anderson, Robert N, McAfee, Tim, Peto, Richard

“…In this analysis of current data from a nationally representative U.S. survey, smoking was associated with a reduction in life expectancy of 10 years, and the…”
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Contrasting male and female trends in tobacco-attributed mortality in China: evidence from successive nationwide prospective cohort studies by Chen, Zhengming, Prof, Peto, Richard, Prof, Zhou, Maigeng, MSc, Iona, Andri, MSc, Smith, Margaret, PhD, Yang, Ling, PhD, Guo, Yu, MSc, Chen, Yiping, DPhil, Bian, Zheng, MSc, Lancaster, Garry, MA, Sherliker, Paul, BA, Pang, Shutao, MSc, Wang, Hao, MSc, Su, Hua, MD, Wu, Ming, PhD, Wu, Xianping, MSc, Chen, Junshi, Prof, Collins, Rory, Prof, Li, Liming, Prof

“…Summary Background Chinese men now smoke more than a third of the world's cigarettes, following a large increase in urban then rural usage. Conversely, Chinese…”
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20-Year Risks of Breast-Cancer Recurrence after Stopping Endocrine Therapy at 5 Years by Pan, Hongchao, Gray, Richard, Braybrooke, Jeremy, Davies, Christina, Taylor, Carolyn, McGale, Paul, Peto, Richard, Pritchard, Kathleen I, Bergh, Jonas, Dowsett, Mitch, Hayes, Daniel F

“…In a meta-analysis of 88 trials involving nearly 63,000 women with breast cancer who were disease-free after 5 years of endocrine therapy, the risk of…”
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Quality of primary health care in China: challenges and recommendations by Li, Xi, Krumholz, Harlan M, Yip, Winnie, Cheng, Kar Keung, De Maeseneer, Jan, Meng, Qingyue, Mossialos, Elias, Li, Chuang, Lu, Jiapeng, Su, Meng, Zhang, Qiuli, Xu, Dong Roman, Li, Liming, Normand, Sharon-Lise T, Peto, Richard, Li, Jing, Wang, Zengwu, Yan, Hongbing, Gao, Runlin, Chunharas, Somsak, Gao, Xin, Guerra, Raniero, Ji, Huijie, Ke, Yang, Pan, Zhigang, Wu, Xianping, Xiao, Shuiyuan, Xie, Xinying, Zhang, Yujuan, Zhu, Jun, Zhu, Shanzhu, Hu, Shengshou

“…China has substantially increased financial investment and introduced favourable policies for strengthening its primary health care system with core…”
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Stages of the cigarette epidemic on entering its second century by Thun, Michael, Peto, Richard, Boreham, Jillian, Lopez, Alan D

“…ObjectivesA four-stage model of the cigarette epidemic was proposed in 1994 to communicate the long delay between the widespread uptake of cigarette smoking…”
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Tobacco use in 3 billion individuals from 16 countries: an analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional household surveys by Giovino, Gary A, Prof, Mirza, Sara A, PhD, Samet, Jonathan M, Prof, Gupta, Prakash C, ScD, Jarvis, Martin J, Prof, Bhala, Neeraj, MRCP, Peto, Richard, Prof, Zatonski, Witold, Prof, Hsia, Jason, PhD, Morton, Jeremy, MS, Palipudi, Krishna M, PhD, Asma, Samira, DDS

“…Summary Background Despite the high global burden of diseases caused by tobacco, valid and comparable prevalence data for patterns of adult tobacco use and…”
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Association Between Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Rural and Urban Areas of China by Bragg, Fiona, Holmes, Michael V, Iona, Andri, Guo, Yu, Du, Huaidong, Chen, Yiping, Bian, Zheng, Yang, Ling, Herrington, William, Bennett, Derrick, Turnbull, Iain, Liu, Yongmei, Feng, Shixian, Chen, Junshi, Clarke, Robert, Collins, Rory, Peto, Richard, Li, Liming, Chen, Zhengming

“…IMPORTANCE: In China, diabetes prevalence has increased substantially in recent decades, but there are no reliable estimates of the excess mortality currently…”
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Considerations in boosting COVID-19 vaccine immune responses by Krause, Philip R, Fleming, Thomas R, Peto, Richard, Longini, Ira M, Figueroa, J Peter, Sterne, Jonathan A C, Cravioto, Alejandro, Rees, Helen, Higgins, Julian P T, Boutron, Isabelle, Pan, Hongchao, Gruber, Marion F, Arora, Narendra, Kazi, Fatema, Gaspar, Rogerio, Swaminathan, Soumya, Ryan, Michael J, Henao-Restrepo, Ana-Maria

“…A new wave of COVID-19 cases caused by the highly transmissible delta variant is exacerbating the worldwide public health crisis, and has led to consideration…”
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Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Metabolites and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke by Holmes, Michael V., Millwood, Iona Y., Kartsonaki, Christiana, Hill, Michael R., Bennett, Derrick A., Boxall, Ruth, Guo, Yu, Xu, Xin, Bian, Zheng, Hu, Ruying, Walters, Robin G., Chen, Junshi, Ala-Korpela, Mika, Parish, Sarah, Clarke, Robert J., Peto, Richard, Collins, Rory, Li, Liming, Chen, Zhengming

“…Blood lipids are established risk factors for myocardial infarction (MI), but uncertainty persists about the relevance of lipids, lipoprotein particles, and…”
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Estimating the Risks of Breast Cancer Radiotherapy: Evidence From Modern Radiation Doses to the Lungs and Heart and From Previous Randomized Trials by Taylor, Carolyn, Correa, Candace, Duane, Frances K, Aznar, Marianne C, Anderson, Stewart J, Bergh, Jonas, Dodwell, David, Ewertz, Marianne, Gray, Richard, Jagsi, Reshma, Pierce, Lori, Pritchard, Kathleen I, Swain, Sandra, Wang, Zhe, Wang, Yaochen, Whelan, Tim, Peto, Richard, McGale, Paul

“…Purpose Radiotherapy reduces the absolute risk of breast cancer mortality by a few percentage points in suitable women but can cause a second cancer or heart…”
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Fresh Fruit Consumption and Major Cardiovascular Disease in China by Du, Huaidong, Li, Liming, Bennett, Derrick, Guo, Yu, Key, Timothy J, Bian, Zheng, Sherliker, Paul, Gao, Haiyan, Chen, Yiping, Yang, Ling, Chen, Junshi, Wang, Shanqing, Du, Ranran, Su, Hua, Collins, Rory, Peto, Richard, Chen, Zhengming

“…In a study involving 451,665 adults in China, higher levels of fruit consumption were associated with lower blood pressure and blood glucose levels and,…”
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Alcohol and mortality in Russia: prospective observational study of 151 000 adults by Zaridze, David, Prof, Lewington, Sarah, DPhil, Boroda, Alexander, MD, Scélo, Ghislaine, PhD, Karpov, Rostislav, Prof, Lazarev, Alexander, Prof, Konobeevskaya, Irina, MD, Igitov, Vladimir, MD, Terechova, Tatiyana, PhD, Boffetta, Paolo, Prof, Sherliker, Paul, BA, Kong, Xiangling, MSc, Whitlock, Gary, PhD, Boreham, Jillian, PhD, Brennan, Paul, PhD, Peto, Richard, Prof

“…Summary Background Russian adults have extraordinarily high rates of premature death. Retrospective enquiries to the families of about 50 000 deceased Russians…”
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Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease in Women after Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer by Darby, Sarah C, Ewertz, Marianne, McGale, Paul, Bennet, Anna M, Blom-Goldman, Ulla, Brønnum, Dorthe, Correa, Candace, Cutter, David, Gagliardi, Giovanna, Gigante, Bruna, Jensen, Maj-Britt, Nisbet, Andrew, Peto, Richard, Rahimi, Kazem, Taylor, Carolyn, Hall, Per

“…A large study shows that irradiation of the chest in women with breast cancer delivers an average of about 5 Gy and that the risk of a subsequent coronary…”
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Night Shift Work and Breast Cancer Incidence: Three Prospective Studies and Meta-analysis of Published Studies by Travis, Ruth C, Balkwill, Angela, Fensom, Georgina K, Appleby, Paul N, Reeves, Gillian K, Wang, Xiao-Si, Roddam, Andrew W, Gathani, Toral, Peto, Richard, Green, Jane, Key, Timothy J, Beral, Valerie

“…It has been proposed that night shift work could increase breast cancer incidence. A 2007 World Health Organization review concluded, mainly from animal…”
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Alcohol and cause-specific mortality in Russia: a retrospective case–control study of 48 557 adult deaths by Zaridze, David, Prof, Brennan, Paul, PhD, Boreham, Jillian, PhD, Boroda, Alex, MSc, Karpov, Rostislav, Prof, Lazarev, Alexander, Prof, Konobeevskaya, Irina, MD, Igitov, Vladimir, MD, Terechova, Tatiana, PhD, Boffetta, Paolo, MD, Peto, Richard, Prof

“…Summary Background Alcohol is an important determinant of the high and fluctuating adult mortality rates in Russia, but cause-specific detail is lacking. Our…”
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Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors by Doll, Richard, Peto, Richard, Boreham, Jillian, Sutherland, Isabelle

“…Abstract Objective To compare the hazards of cigarette smoking in men who formed their habits at different periods, and the extent of the reduction in risk…”
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