Epidemiology of smoking-induced cardiovascular disease

DM Burns - Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 2003 - Elsevier
Cigarette smoking is a major cause of coronary heart disease, stroke, aortic aneurysm, and
peripheral vascular disease. The risk is manifest both as an increased risk for thrombosis of
narrowed vessels and as an increased degree of atherosclerosis in those vessels. The
cardiovascular risks owing to cigarette smoking increase with the amount smoked and with
the duration of smoking. Risks are not reduced by smoking cigarettes with lower machine-
measured yields of tar and nicotine, but those who have only smoked pipes or cigars seem …