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Each study is assessed for quality considering issues such as the presence of bias, confounding or chance. The body of evidence is assessed to determine whether smoking causes prostate cancer using epidemiological criteria, first proposed by Bradford-Hill, such as consistency of the association, strength of the association, evidence of a dose-response relationship, the presence of the correct temporal relationship and biological plausibility.