Smoking prevalence, population attributable risk, and number of deaths due to tobacco smoking in selected Asian populations.

Estimates are provided for populations age 45 y or older.aBecause of the small sample size in the current study for these populations, data for smoking prevalence rates were obtained from other sources: Bangladeshi men and women: [12], Taiwanese women: [19], and Korean women: [34].bPARs were estimated using HRs derived from all South Asian cohorts combined because of unstable HR estimates using Bangladeshi data alone.cMortality data for Taiwan were obtained from http://www.mohw.gov.tw/CHT/Ministry/Index.aspx.dPARs were estimated using weighted HRs and smoking prevalence of the study populations.Thus, the number of deaths attributable to smoking in these populations may not be equal to the sum of the numbers of deaths from the countries in the population areas. East Asia: mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Republic of Korea, and Japan. South Asia: Bangladesh and India. All populations: all seven countries/regions listed above.