The Adoption of Smoking and Its Effect on the Mortality Gender Gap in Netherlands: A Historical Perspective

We examine in depth the effect of differences in the smoking adoption patterns of men and women on the mortality gender gap in Netherlands, employing a historical perspective. Using an indirect estimation technique based on observed lung cancer mortality from1931 to 2012, we estimated lifetime smoking prevalence and smoking-attributable mortality.We decomposed the sex difference in life expectancy at birth into smoking-related and nonsmoking-related overall and cause-specificmortality.Thesmoking epidemic in Netherlands, which started among men born around 1850 and among women from birth cohort... Mehr ...