RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SMOKING AND PULMONARY DISEASE IN ALCOHOLISM

Abstract

The mortality encountered in alcoholics may therefore also be influenced by other factors associated with alcoholism, and smoking is a most relevant factor. Any mortality found to be associated with one of these habits has to be evaluated in relation to the other as well. The final interpretation, of the figures for the total mortality of alcoholics should therefore be delayed until this aspect is taken into account. This cannot be done satisfactorily until the principal disease components have been separately studied and compared with cause-specific mortality found to be related to smoking.—Sundby, 1967.