“These variations are the result, respectively, of the decrease in the average number of cigarettes smoked between 15 and 44 years among men over the past 10 years and its increase in women,” indicate the authors of the study.
According to this study, lung cancer mortality peaked in 1993 in men and has declined significantly since, while it has been increasing since 1980 in women.
The study also found that average tobacco consumption reached a maximum of 9 cigarettes per adult per day for men in 1980 and 3.5 cigarettes per day for women in 1991. “The decline therefore began for men 11. years earlier and was much more marked than in women “, explain the lead authors of the study.
This study was conducted by Catherine Hill, Eric Jougla and François Beck, respectively affiliated with the Gustave Roussy Institute in Villejuif, the Center for Epidemiology on Medical Causes of Death and the National Institute for Prevention and Education for health (INPES).
