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Kombmail:
for an inclass activity, we need to answer this:
c) Suggest sources of data that could have been used to gather information for epidemiological studies on cigarette sales and lung cancer deaths

in reference to incidence of the mid 1900s australia.
But I cant find any.....
if you can please reply to this post:)

stella_atarnotes:

--- Quote from: Kombmail on June 16, 2019, 08:56:30 pm ---for an inclass activity, we need to answer this:
c) Suggest sources of data that could have been used to gather information for epidemiological studies on cigarette sales and lung cancer deaths

in reference to incidence of the mid 1900s australia.
But I cant find any.....
if you can please reply to this post:)

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Hey! This incident your describing sounds familiar to me, may have been in the old biology syllabus so try looking through some of the old textbooks. The general gist of the incident was that tobacco smoking became popular in the mid 1900s and there wasn't an immediate lung cancer effect seen then. However, in later years, and actually quite recently, we can see the trend in lung cancer beginning to rise. It is suspected that it was a culmination of all the tobacco use that took place earlier when tobacco became popular, and even though currently tobacco use is in decline, its affects from before can still be seen.

Have a look at some of the statistics from the Australian bureau of statistics and google the history of tobacco use and lung cancer in Australia. It's really important that you emphasize correlation vs causation since there is no direct evidence on a link between lung cancer and tobacco use. We are only able to analyse the trends in history.

Kombmail:

--- Quote from: stella_atarnotes on June 17, 2019, 06:22:12 pm ---Hey! This incident your describing sounds familiar to me, may have been in the old biology syllabus so try looking through some of the old textbooks. The general gist of the incident was that tobacco smoking became popular in the mid 1900s and there wasn't an immediate lung cancer effect seen then. However, in later years, and actually quite recently, we can see the trend in lung cancer beginning to rise. It is suspected that it was a culmination of all the tobacco use that took place earlier when tobacco became popular, and even though currently tobacco use is in decline, its affects from before can still be seen.

Have a look at some of the statistics from the Australian bureau of statistics and google the history of tobacco use and lung cancer in Australia. It's really important that you emphasize correlation vs causation since there is no direct evidence on a link between lung cancer and tobacco use. We are only able to analyse the trends in history.

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Thankyou very VERY much!!

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