title: [Aspects of tobacco attributable mortality: systematic review].
abstract: The objective of the article was to assess methodologies published and applied in calculating mortality attributable to smoking. A review of the literature was made for the period 1990 to 2006, in the electronic databases MEDLINE and LILACS. A total of 186 studies were found, which measured mortality based on calculating the smoking-attributable risk. Of these, a total of 41 were selected. The studies that were carried out in the United States and Canada presented a more standard methodology and reported smoking attributable mortality to be 18%-23%, with male mortality being 25%-29% and female mortality 14%-17%. The variations can be attributed to methodological differences and to different estimates of the main tobacco-related illnesses.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Epidemiologia e Métodos Quantitativos em Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. andreiaf@ensp.fiocruz.br
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Valente
authors.forename: I C
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Leite
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality*