Table 2 Attribution of causal role of smoking in smoking-related disease (%) among Estonian physicians by gender, 1982–2014
Statement | 1982 | 2002 | 2014 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
n = 850 | n = 2654 | n = 465 | n = 2229 | n = 518 | n = 2347 | |
Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) | ||||||
A major cause | 4.9 | 4.8 | 8.4 | 7.2 | 14.7 | 11.4 |
One of the causes | 79.8 | 79.3 | 88.2 | 89.1 | 83.8 | 86.6 |
Probably not a cause | 5.5 | 4.6 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
Not a cause | 2.5 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
Cannot say | 7.3 | 9.6 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 1.0 |
Lung cancer | ||||||
A major cause | 12.5 | 13.5 | 30.3 | 32.7 | 37.6 | 33.6 |
One of the causes | 77.3 | 75.1 | 68.0 | 66.4 | 61.2 | 65.6 |
Probably not a cause | 2.2 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 |
Not a cause | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
Cannot say | 6.1 | 7.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Chronic bronchitis | ||||||
A major cause | 24.4 | 23.0 | 33.6 | 35.9 | 38.6 | 40.3 |
One of the causes | 70.4 | 70.9 | 65.2 | 63.2 | 60.4 | 58.9 |
Probably not a cause | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
Not a cause | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Cannot say | 2.7 | 4.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |