IMASS
International Mortality And Smoking Statistics

Latest News  (February 2010)

IMASS v4.05 Full Version (8th February 2010)

• Population and mortality data updated from the World Health Organization (WHO) as of 1st December 2009.

• Updated smoking statistics and sales data from ISS3 (Web edition) France and Sweden chapters and the ISS3 Supplement 1 update
     

Download: IMASS v4.05 (free registration required)

IMASS System Details

• A comprehensive Excel database system with smoking related data from 30 different countries.
• Consumption of tobacco products
• Prevalence of smoking
• Mortality from the major smoking-related diseases. 
• Powerful routines using drop down menu selections for creating graphs and tables
• Compare data from different countries on one graph
• Combine mortality with  prevalence or consumption on one graph
• Produce scatter plots displaying mortality against consumption or prevalence for multiple countries on one graph
• Ability to lag prevalence or consumption data thus allowing plots of mortality against smoking data from earlier years
• Ranking available on country plots

IMASS was reviewed in the favourable IJE* review of  International Smoking Statistics (2nd edition). Since then  the system has been much improved and updated resulting in the latest release IMASSv4.01

* International Journal of Epidemiology (April 2004)  ( IJE Review by Debbie A Lawlor)

  Download: IMASS (free registration required)

   The following example shows the simple use of drop down menu selections to create a typical consumption plot

------------------------  Period For Lagging or Averaging  ------------------------- Sex Cohort or Age Group Tobacco Type Start (Youngest) End (Oldest) Source   Tar Adjustment Relative Scaling