One Disadvantage of Using the Pack-Year Method for Calculating Cigarette

question 32

Multiple Choice

One disadvantage of using the pack-year method for calculating cigarette consumption is that:

• A) the method is not used widely throughout the United States.
• B) advanced mathematical calculations are required to obtain the figure.
• C) the method does not reveal how many packs per day were smoked over how many years.
• D) the values are more meaningful to RTs and physicians than to other health care providers.

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