… b The lower sensitivity limit values assume that (a) US cigarette fire costs were 20% lower
… ; (b) that smoking caused 70% of US child access to cigarette lighters and matches; and (b) …

OBJECTIVE: To present the first estimate of the costs of job related osteoarthritis (OA) in the
USA. METHODS: Data were drawn from national data sets collected by the US Bureau of …

Toassess the clinical significance of asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis, we evaluated the
relationship between radiographic evidence of pleural fibrosis and spirometric values in 1,211 …

Objective To estimate the direct and indirect costs of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the United
States in 1997. Design Aggregation and analysis of national data sets collected by the …

Objectives—Assess injury death relative risks (RR), dose-response, and attributable fractions
for current cigarette smokers (smokers) in a recent representative sample of the United …

Purpose Although cigarette smoking remains the most common risk factor for heart disease
among the young, few studies have explored the relationship of smoking with heart disease …

The costs of smoking are immense, diverse, sometimes controversial, and increasingly
important as the number of smokers exceeds 1.1 billion and the toll from smoking rises toward …

Background.Injury and tobacco effects represent one-quarter of the global burden of disease.
Understanding the causes of injury and the effects of smoking may help reduce those …

… ), McLeod (rake-like tool; Figure 1A,B), and shovel. Additional job tasks include what are known
as … b Calculated using exact conditional logistic regression to account for small cell sizes, …

… or ember in their lap when one is dropped while driving [Leistikow, unpublished data]). …
and tobacco products other than cigarettes or (b) cigarette/accident sub-type associations. …