Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors

By R. Doll, R. Peto, J. Boreham, I. Sutherland. British medical journal, 2004

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Influence of smoking cessation after diagnosis of early stage lung cancer on prognosis: systematic review of observational studies with meta-analysis (2010, background): “As well as potentially reducing the risk of cancer related morbidity and mortality, quitting smoking at diagnosis could reduce overall mortality, as smoking cessation reduces mortality from other diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and chronic obstructive airways disease.”
The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors (2009, background): “There is also evidence that former smokers reduce their risk to that of never-smokers over time [40].”
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (2015, neutral): “33,72 Without all of these ingredients, now facilitated by WHO’s stewardship and private philanthropy driving the MPOWER programme, progress will be slow, diﬃ cult, and at risk of reversals.”