A modified new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high-income countries

Brian L. Rostron
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Brian L. Rostron: US Food and Drug Administration

Demographic Research, 2010, vol. 23, issue 14, 399-420

Abstract: Preston, Glei, and Wilmoth (2010) recently proposed an innovative regression-based method to estimate smoking-attributable mortality in developed countries based on observed lung cancer death rates. Their estimates for females, however, differ appreciably from some published estimates. This article presents a modified version of the Preston, Glei, and Wilmoth method that includes an age-period interaction term in its model. This modified version produces improved estimates of smoking-attributable mortality that are consistent with results from a modified version of the Peto-Lopez indirect method.

Keywords: mortality; life expectancy; smoking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.14

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