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In this issue of Thorax
Pelkonen et al1 make another
contribution to the substantial body of literature relating smoking habit, lung function, and long term mortality. In this paper the effects of smoking cessation are emphasised, describing 30 years of
follow up of a Finnish cohort recruited in 1959 for the Seven Countries
study of coronary artery disease. It is somewhat unusual in that the
study enrolled essentially all the age eligible (40-59 years) men in
two localities and had extremely high rates of follow up. Lung function
was measured at baseline, as were other risk factors for coronary
disease such as smoking habit, blood pressure, cholesterol, and body
mass index. About half of the 1600 men were smoking on entry to the
study and about 37% of them quit during follow up. Baseline lung
function was reasonable, with two thirds of the men having forced
expiratory volume in one second in 0.75
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