The 1964 report on smoking and health
On this theme, theres a great paper by Julia Rohrer and Nick Brown breaking down the idea of a happiness pie, in which approximately 50% of individual differences in happiness are due to genetic factors and 10% to life circumstances, leaving 40% available to be changed via volitional activities. Surprisingly, Ive also seen this conceptual mistake made in a press release by the National Cancer Institute, which described the causes of the decline in breast cancer deaths like this: In breast cancer, 1 million deaths (out of 2.71 million that would have occurred in the absence of all interventions) were averted from 1975 to 2020, with treatment advances contributing to three-quarters of the deaths averted and mammography screening contributing to the rest.
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Additionally, smokers with diabetes have a higher risk of developing complications, including nephropathy, blindness, peripheral neuropathy, and amputations [25]
By 2023, this was just 12% of men and 10% of women
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