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1. Explain the risk factor approach and the meaning of the statistic "male smokers have a relative risk of about 23.3 for dying of lung cancer".

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Risk factor approach is a method that is used to determine how likely a person is to health challenges such as cardiac arrest compared to a normal person.

An activity is.used as a basis for estimating risk

Step-by-step explanation:

The meaning of the statistic "male smokers have a relative risk of about 23.3 for dying of lung cancer".

Refers to relative risk. In this instance it means that a person that smokes has a 23.3 times more chance of dying of lung cancer compared to someone that does not smoke.

Smoking is used as a basis for measuring relative health between smokers and non smokers.

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