WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THE TOPIC?
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Smoking is an avoidable risk factor increasingly found to be associated with more diseases. One of the indicators used to characterize the smoking epidemic among the population is smoking-attributable mortality. Only a few studies in Spain have estimated region-specific smoking-attributable mortality. To date, attributable mortality estimates are only available for 6 regions, and all refer to different time points. The latest estimate was for 2001 to 2006 in Galicia.
WHAT DOES THIS STUDY ADD?
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