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- Title
Cigarette smoking and suicide: a prospective study of 300,000 male active-duty Army soldiers.
- Authors
Miller, M; Hemenway, D; Bell, N S; Yore, M M; Amoroso, P J
- Abstract
The authors examined the relation between cigarette smoking and suicide by conducting a cohort study of 300,000 male US Army personnel followed prospectively from January 1987 through December 1996 for 961,657 person-years. They found that the risk of suicide increased significantly with the number of cigarettes smoked daily (p for trend < 0.001). In multivariable-adjusted analyses, smokers of more than 20 cigarettes a day, compared with never smokers, were more than twice as likely to commit suicide. For male active-duty army personnel, the dose-related association between smoking and suicide was not entirely explained by the greater tendency of smokers to be White, drink heavily, have less education, and exercise less often.
- Publication
American journal of epidemiology, 2000, Vol 151, Issue 11, p1060
- ISSN
0002-9262
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a010148