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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 1 Scope of the problem and overall death and disability

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1991 tobacco deaths were 491,000, including 195,000 from heart disease, stroke,

and vascular disease, 157,000 from cancer, 83,000 from pulmonary disease, 53,000

from passive smoking, and 3500 from burns and pediatric diseases.

Archives of Family Medicine, September 1992, p. 129

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At present smoking rates, at least 5 million American children, none of whom yet

smoke, will eventually die from tobacco-induced disease. Worldwide, 200 million

children now alive will die from disease caused by tobacco.

World Health Organization and Antonia Novello, M.D.

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The number of US tobacco-related deaths each year equals the number of American

troops stationed in Saudi Arabia in February 1991 at the peak of the Desert

Shield/Desert Storm buildup.

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The number of deaths caused by tobacco in the next decade in the United States will

exceed the current combined populations of the cities of Washington, D.C., Boston,

San Francisco, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, Miami, Atlanta, and Kansas City.

Preventive Medicine 22:514, 1993

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The yearly death toll from tobacco in the United States is equal to the disappearance

of a city the size of Denver, Seattle, or Miami.

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The number of deaths that will be caused by tobacco in the decade of the 1990's in

the United States, about 4.5 million, is greater than the current population of 35 of the

50 states.

San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 1993

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