Volume 36 - Article 8 | Pages 255–280
Contribution of smoking-attributable mortality to life-expectancy differences by marital status among Finnish men and women, 1971-2010
By Riina Peltonen, Jessica Y. Ho, Irma T. Elo, Pekka Martikainen
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