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Tobacco smoking continues to threaten the health of Asian populations and is associated with mortality, with the public health threat projected to grow over the coming decades.
This editorial highlights the ongoing and growing public health threat of tobacco smoking on mortality in Asian populations.
and India, omitting many other Asian countries. Thus, future studies are warranted to confirm these findings in the remaining Asian countries. In assessing the association of smoking with mortality, the authors considered a number of covariates and conducted sensitivity analyses. However, residual confounding is still possible (eg, air pollution 7 ). Despite these limitations, "One flaw cannot obscure the splendor of the jade," as a Chinese proverb says. The study was based on a collaborative research project (the Asia Cohort Consortium) and combined data from several countries, providing very important data on tobacco smoking in Asia. The results are concerning: the health of many Asian populations is still threatened by tobacco smoking, and the threat will become greater over the coming decades. During the past decade, governments, organizations (eg, the World Health Organization), and policy makers have taken actions to reduce tobacco use.
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Yang et al. (2019) conducted an editorial in Tobacco smoking. Tobacco smoking was evaluated on Mortality. Tobacco smoking continues to threaten the health of Asian populations and is associated with mortality, with the public health threat projected to grow over the coming decades.
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