Patterns in tobacco attributed mortality in Belgium for 2019

Abstract Introduction Tobacco use is one of largest contributors to preventable disease burden in the world. In Belgium, tobacco use is a public health concern and prominent on the policy agenda. To monitor tobacco use and understand the impact on associated outcomes, we estimated the population attributable fraction (PAF) to tobacco use in Belgium and used that to compute the attributable mortality. Methods We used comparative risk assessment to calculate PAF and attributable mortality to tobacco use. Using estimates of tobacco use from a time series based on five waves of the Belgian Health... Mehr ...