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Smoking as a risk factor for injury death: a meta-analysis of cohort studiesB N Leistikow
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616 8638, USA
Prev Med 27:871-8. 1998..Understanding the causes of injury and the effects of smoking may help reduce those burdens. Some smokers have high risks of injury. We provide an initial meta-analysis of cohort associations between smoking and fatal injury...
Male tobacco smoke load and non-lung cancer mortality associations in MassachusettsBruce N Leistikow
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
BMC Cancer 8:341. 2008..This study assessed cumulative tobacco smoke damage (smoke load)/non-lung cancer mortality associations across time from 1979 to 2003 among all Massachusetts males and ages 30-74 years, using this novel methodology...
Tobacco smoke overload and ethnic, state, gender, and temporal cancer mortality disparities in Asian-Americans and Pacific Islander-AmericansBruce N Leistikow
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Prev Med 42:430-4. 2006..So we assessed cumulative tobacco smoke overexposure (smoke overload)/cancer mortality associations across states, ethnicities, years, and genders among API-Americans...
Lung cancer rates as an index of tobacco smoke exposures: validation against black male approximate non-lung cancer death rates, 1969-2000Bruce Leistikow
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Prev Med 38:511-5. 2004....
Commentary: Questionable premises, overadjustment, and a smoking/suicide association in younger adult menBruce Leistikow
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Univeristy of California, 1 Shields Ave, TB 168, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:1005-6. 2003
Injury death excesses in smokers: a 1990-95 United States national cohort studyB N Leistikow
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616 8638, USA
Inj Prev 6:277-80. 2000....
Fire injuries, disasters, and costs from cigarettes and cigarette lights: a global overviewB N Leistikow
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616 8638, USA
Prev Med 31:91-9. 2000..Fires cause 1% of the global burden of disease. Fire (includes explosion) disasters have immense health, social, and environmental costs. We will provide initial estimates of overall U. S. and global fire tolls from smoking...
Estimates of smoking-attributable deaths at ages 15-54, motherless or fatherless youths, and resulting Social Security costs in the United States in 1994B N Leistikow
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616 8638, USA
Prev Med 30:353-60. 2000..So we estimated the smoking-attributable (SA) counts and percentages (SA%) of U.S. 1994 deaths at child-rearing ages; youths (ages <18) left motherless or fatherless; and resulting Social Security Survivors Insurance taxes...
Smoking as a risk factor for accident death: a meta-analysis of cohort studiesB N Leistikow
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616 8638, USA
Accid Anal Prev 32:397-405. 2000..Further studies and warnings of the smoking/accident death associations seem merited...
The human and financial costs of smokingB N Leistikow
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California at Davis, School of Medicine, USA
Clin Chest Med 21:189-97, x-xi. 2000..In the face of such costs, smoking cessation and prevention services are likely to be highly cost-effective...
Might stopping smoking reduce injury death risks? A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trialsB N Leistikow
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, 95616 8638, USA
Prev Med 28:255-9. 1999..We analyzed injury, accident, suicide, and homicide deaths as secondary endpoints in RCT that induced cessation...
Smoking and ischemic heart disease disparities between studies, genders, times, and socioeconomic strataBruce N Leistikow
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
J Cardiovasc Transl Res 2:267-73. 2009..Further efforts to minimize smoke exposures and better quantify cumulative smoking-attributable burdens are needed...
Cancer death epidemics in United States Black males: evaluating courses, causation, and curesBruce N Leistikow
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Prev Med 41:380-5. 2005..Estimates that smoking contributes 38-72% of the United States (US) Black male cancer death rate leave a wide range of uncertainty. This paper uses additional and regional data, and refined methods, to reassess that range...
Smoke load/cancer death rate associations in Korea females, 1985-2004Hye Youn Park
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Prev Med 45:309-12. 2007..The sources of those cancer death epidemics are unclear but may be related to rising cumulative tobacco smoke damage (smoke load). We assessed Korea female smoke load/cancer death rate associations from 1985 to 2004...
Leistikow respondsBruce N Leistikow
Am J Public Health 98:388-9. 2008
