European Code against Cancer, 4th Edition: Tobacco and cancer

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F15%3A10320660" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/15:10320660 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00064165:_____/15:10320660

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2015.06.001" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2015.06.001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2015.06.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.canep.2015.06.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

European Code against Cancer, 4th Edition: Tobacco and cancer

Original language description

Tobacco use, and in particular cigarette smoking, is the single largest preventable cause of cancer in the European Union (EU). All tobacco products contain a wide range of carcinogens. The main cancer-causing agents in tobacco smoke are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines, aromatic amines, aldehydes, and certain volatile organic compounds. Tobacco consumers are also exposed to nicotine, leading to tobacco addiction in many users. Cigarette smoking causes cancer in multipleorgans and is the main cause of lung cancer, responsible for approximately 82% of cases. In 2012, about 313,000 new cases of lung cancer and 268,000 lung cancer deaths were reported in the EU; 28% of adults in the EU smoked tobacco, and the overall prevalence of current use of smokeless tobacco products was almost 2%. Smokeless tobacco products, a heterogeneous category, are also carcinogenic but cause a lower burden of cancer deaths than tobacco smoking. One low-nitrosamine product, sn

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FN - Epidemiology, infection diseases and clinical immunology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cancer Epidemiology

ISSN

1877-7821

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Suppl 1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

"S20"-"S33"

UT code for WoS article

000373179500003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84939558818