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Analysis of deaths from malignant disease showed an excess of deaths from carcinoma of lung (O\/E 1.37) (95% CI 1.14 to 1.62) and from smoking related cancers (O\/E 1.32) (95% CI 1.13 to 1.52) but there was no significant excess mortality from any other neoplasm. An excess of deaths within one year of the operation was seen from circulatory disease (O\/E 1.85) (95% CI 1.17 to 2.78), respiratory disease (O\/E 3.56) (95% CI 1.78 to 6.37), and digestive disease (O\/E 21.46) (95% CI 13.75 to 31.93). These deaths are concentrated in the first postoperative month and as there is no excess mortality from circulatory, respiratory or digestive disease between 1 and 20 years postoperatively, show the direct effects of the operation as a cause of death. This together with the excess mortality from all respiratory disease confirms that excess mortality after duodenal ulcer surgery is, in the short term, the result of the operation itself and in the long term largely attributable to cigarette smoking. Operations for gastric ulcer largely account for the subsequent excess mortality from gastric cancer reported after peptic ulcer surgery. 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