U.S. Veterans Mortality Study, 1952-1980

<p>This study contains data measuring the relationship between adult smoking behavior and lung cancer as well as other causes of death. The sample consists of nearly 300,000 mostly male veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. These veterans served at some point between 1917 and 1940 and were identified in 1953 as holders of active government life insurance policies administered by the Veterans Administration. The files have response data from sample members on their smoking behavior and other tobacco use and their occupation and industry of employment in 1954 and 1957. Follow-up studies were conducted using data from the Veterans Administration to determine who among the sample members had died and the cause of death. These files include information on the study members' tobacco use (cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking use and use of chewing tobacco), demographic characteristics, job characteristics, and date and cause of death. This study is often referred to as the "Dorn Study" as the study was begun by Dr. Harold Dorn.</p>