Smoking-attributable mortality in Bangladesh: proportional mortality study

Dewan S Alam; Prabhat Jha; Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige; Peter Kim Streatfield; Louis W Niessen; Muhammad Ashique H Chowdhury; Ali T Siddiquee; Shyfuddin Ahmed; Timothy G Evans

doi:10.2471/blt.13.120196

journal article Jul 12, 2013

Smoking-attributable mortality in Bangladesh: proportional mortality study

Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige Peter Kim Streatfield Louis W Niessen Muhammad Ashique H Chowdhury Ali T Siddiquee Shyfuddin Ahmed Timothy G Evans

Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 91 No. 10 pp. 757-764 · WHO Press

View at Publisher Save 10.2471/blt.13.120196

Topics

No keywords indexed for this article. Browse by subject →

References

23

[1]

Jha "Avoidance." Nat Rev Cancer (2009) 10.1038/nrc2703

[2]

Global Tobacco Surveillance System.Global Adult Tobacco Survey – Bangladesh report 2009. Dhaka: World Health Organization, Country office for Bangladesh; 2009.

[3]

Jha "A nationally representative case-control study of smoking and death in India." N Engl J Med (2008) 10.1056/nejmsa0707719

[4]

Global Tobacco Surveillance System.Global Adult Tobacco Survey – India report 2010.New Delhi, India: World Health Organization and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; 2010.

[5]

Pirie "The 21st century hazards of smoking and benefits of stopping: a prospective study of one million women in the UK." Lancet (2013) 10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61720-6

[6]

Jha "21st-century hazards of smoking and benefits of cessation in the United States." N Engl J Med (2013) 10.1056/nejmsa1211128

[7]

International Agency for Research on Cancer. Vol. 83. Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking. In:IARC monographs on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risks of chemicals to humans.Lyon: IARC; 2004.

[8]

Centre for health and population research.Health and demographic surveillance system – Matlab, volume.36: registration of health and demographic events 2003. Dhaka: ICDDR, B; 2005.

[9]

Alam "Causes of death of adults and elderly and healthcare-seeking before death in rural Bangladesh." J Health Popul Nutr (2010) 10.3329/jhpn.v28i5.6161

[10]

International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, 10Geneva: World Health Organization; 2008.

[11]

Peto R, Lopez AD, Boreham J, Thun M.Mortality from smoking in developed countries, 1950–2000.2nd ed. Available from: www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~tobacco/ [accessed 30 June 2013].

[12]

Liu "Emerging tobacco hazards in China: 1. Retrospective proportional mortality study of one million deaths." BMJ (1998) 10.1136/bmj.317.7170.1411

[13]

Zaridze "Alcohol and cause-specific mortality in Russia: a retrospective case-control study of 48,557 adult deaths." Lancet (2009) 10.1016/s0140-6736(09)61034-5

[14]

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Report of Sample Vital Registration System, 2010. Dhaka: Ministry of Planning, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh; 2010.

[15]

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.World population prospects, the 2012 revision. New York: UN; 2012. Available from: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Excel-Data/mortality.htm [accessed 30 June 2013].

[16]

Chowdhury "Control of tuberculosis by community health workers in Bangladesh." Lancet (1997) 10.1016/s0140-6736(96)11311-8

[17]

Razzaque "Sociodemographic differentials of selected noncommunicable diseases risk factors among adults in Matlab, Bangladesh: findings from a WHO STEPS survey." Asia Pac J Public Health (2011) 10.1177/1010539510392743

[18]

Gajalakshmi "Peto R, Kanaka S, Jha P. Smoking and mortality from tuberculosis and other diseases in India: retrospective study of 43000 adult males and 35000 controls." Lancet (2003) 10.1016/s0140-6736(03)14109-8

[19]

Gupta "Survey of sociodemographic characteristics of tobacco use among 99,598 individuals in Bombay, India using handheld computers." Tob Control (1996) 10.1136/tc.5.2.114

[20]

Jha "Prospective study of one million deaths in India: rationale, design, and validation results." PLoS Med (2006) 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030018

[21]

Cancer mortality in India: a nationally representative survey

Rajesh Dikshit, Prakash C Gupta, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige et al.

The Lancet 2012 10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60358-4

[22]

Barkat A, Chowdhury AU, Nargis N, Rahman M, Khan MS, Kumar A et al.The economics of tobacco and tobacco taxation in Bangladesh. Paris: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; 2012.

[23]

Jha P, Chaloupka FJ.Curbing the epidemic: governments and the economics of tobacco control. Washington: The World Bank; 1999.

Cited By

43

A comprehensive economic assessment of the health effects of tobacco use and implications for tobacco control in Bangladesh

Nigar Nargis, Golam Mohiuddin Faruque · 2021

Tobacco Control

Metrics

43

Citations

23

References

Details

Published: Jul 12, 2013
Vol/Issue: 91(10)
Pages: 757-764

Authors

D

Dewan S Alam

Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.

P

Prabhat Jha

Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael’s Hospital at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

C

Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige

Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael’s Hospital at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

P

Peter Kim Streatfield

Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.

L

Louis W Niessen

Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.

M

Muhammad Ashique H Chowdhury

Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.

A

Ali T Siddiquee

Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.

S

Shyfuddin Ahmed

Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.

T

Timothy G Evans

Human Development Network, The World Bank, Washington, United States of America.

Cite This Article

Dewan S Alam, Prabhat Jha, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, et al. (2013). Smoking-attributable mortality in Bangladesh: proportional mortality study. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 91(10), 757-764. https://doi.org/10.2471/blt.13.120196

Smoking-attributable mortality in Bangladesh: proportional mortality study

You May Also Like