Skurnik Y, Shoenfeld Y
Kaplan Medical Center, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Clin Dermatol. 1998 Sep-Oct;16(5):545-56. doi: 10.1016/s0738-081x(98)00037-6.
Cigarette smoking, the chief preventable cause of illness and death in the industrialized nations, is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. It is also the most important preventable factor in the development of lung cancer and various other malignancies, and it may also have a significant role in the pathogenesis of other diseases. Cigarette smoking, the leading cause of morbidity, disability, and death in the Western world, may be considered the most serious pandemic of our century.
吸烟是工业化国家中主要的可预防致病和致死原因，是心血管疾病和呼吸系统疾病发病及死亡的主要促成因素。它也是肺癌和其他各种恶性肿瘤发展过程中最重要的可预防因素，并且在其他疾病的发病机制中可能也起着重要作用。吸烟是西方世界发病、致残和死亡的主要原因，可被视为我们这个世纪最严重的流行病。
