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The causal effect of cigarette smoking on healthcare costs
2022-07-06
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Knowledge of the impact of smoking on healthcare costs is important for establishing the external effects of smoking and for evaluating policies intended to modify this behavior. Conventional analysis of this association is difficult because of omitted variable bias, reverse causality, and measurement error. We approached these challenges using a Mendelian Randomization study design, in which gen...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4b5b44c6-f9ca-5f3d-837b-c1dd656d1d7f
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.07.05.22277228
