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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 1 Scope of the problem and overall death and disability |
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| | Tobacco kills more Americans every year and a half than have all the wars of this |
| | century. |
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| | Total war deaths for the US are: Vietnam, 58,167; Korea, 43,891; World War II, |
| | 405,399; World I, 116,516; and the Civil War, 624,511. |
| | From Gettysburg, Mort Kunstler, Turner, 1992 |
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| | Cigarette smoking accounts for 30% of all deaths in adults in the District of Columbia. |
| | Among black men, 40% of the deaths are attributable to smoking. |
| | Journal of the National Medical Association 81:1125, 1989 |
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| | Tobacco is responsible for 19.4% of all the deaths in the United States, or 1147 |
| | deaths each day. |
| | Tobacco Control, Fall 1994, p. 196 |
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| | The 434,000 tobacco-related deaths in 1988 in the United States included 198,000 |
| | from cardiovascular disease (including 26,000 from stroke), 112,000 from lung |
| | cancer, 31,000 from other cancers, 83,000 from emphysema and related disease, |
| | and 1300 burn deaths from fires caused by smoking. |
| | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 40:62, 1991 |
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| | "Smoking represents the most extensively documented cause of disease ever |
| | investigated in the history of biomedical research." |
| | Antonia Novello, preface to 1990 Surgeon General report |
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