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Repatriation Medical Authority Statement

Chronic myeloid leukaemia - Cigarette smoking Factor

Last reviewed for CCPS 17 December 2003.

Investigative Documents

Claimant Report - Smoking [CRD905]

Claimant Report - Smoking [CRV905]

Preliminary questions [10876]

5803

the veteran has ever smoked cigarettes.

10880the veteran has established the causal connection between the cigarette smoking and operational service for the clinical onset of chronic myeloid leukaemia.

Clinical onset and operational service [10880]

10881

the veteran had smoked at least fifteen pack-years of cigarettes before the clinical onset of chronic myeloid leukaemia and, where smoking has ceased, the clinical onset occurred within ten years of cessation.

3116the veteran has some period or periods of cigarette smoking that are causally related to operational service.