The impact of smoking status on 9.3 years incidence of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among Iranian men.

Aim: To examine the association of different smoking groups with cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart diseases (CHD) and CVD attributed death and death due to all causes in a male Tehranian population.

Methods: From a population-based study 3059 male individuals, aged ≥30 years, free of CVD at baseline were evaluated for a median of 9.3 years.