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Smoking habits among doctors

Description

These data are from a famous study, initiated by Doll & Hill, which surveyed UK doctors and related their smoking habits to subsequent coronary-related deaths. The data in a form reduced to person-years exposure was reported by Breslow (1985).

References

Breslow, N.E. (1985) Cohort Analysis in Epidemiology. In 'A Celebration of Statistics', A.C. Atkinson and S.E. Fienberg (editors), 109-143. Springer-Verlag.

Doll, R. and Hill, A.B. (1966) Mortality of British doctors in relation to smoking: Observations on coronary thrombosis. National Cancer Institute Monograph, 19, 205-268.


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