Patients were classified as current smokers at a given index date if their most recent smoking-related entry in their medical records prior to this index date identified them as such.
†People taking part in more than one survey period are counted only once and are classified by their most recent known smoking status.
Our projections implicitly assume that the reduction in smoking will continue, but do not explicitly model smoking rates or take account of the most recent changes in smoking prevalence.
Nevertheless, in the most recent survey of smoking Britain, more than a quarter of the UK adult and 10% of children said they were regular smokers [ 1, 2].
For example, in the most recent survey of smoking in Scotland in 2007, 13% and 40% respectively of the most affluent and most deprived fifths of the population smoked, 12 compared with 45%and58%8% respectively of the highest and lowest social classes in our cohort at recruitment.
The third and most recent report on smoking and breast cancer from the Nurses Health Studyy reported an increased risk of 18 % with a significant test for trend for every increase of 20 pack-years smoked before first childbirth compared with never smokers [ 13].
The researchers attributed the most recent drop in the smoking rate to the 2006 television campaign highlighting the physical ravages of smoking.
According to the most recent IARC monograph cigarette smoking is possibly carcinogenic to the human breast [ 5].
Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical School, claims this is because many of the most recent reports on active smoking weren't considered when the Surgeon General's report was being produced.
According to the most recent update of the smoking epidemic model [ 16], among women the stage II is characterized by a rapid increase of the prevalence of smoking, along with few deaths attributable to smoking; stage III starts when the peak prevalence is achieved.
