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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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| | Annual deaths from avoidable causes: smokers from smoking, 434,000; alcohol |
| | (including drunk driving), 105,000; nonsmokers from second-hand smoke, 53,000; car |
| | accidents, 50,000; AIDS, 31,000; firearms, 35,000; homicide, 22,000; and illicit |
| | drugs, 20,000. |
| | Saving Lives and Raising Revenue, Coalition on Smoking or Health, February |
| | 1995 |
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| | "While Americans recognize smoking as hazardous to health, they greatly |
| | underestimate the dangers of smoking, both in absolute terms and relative to other |
| | health hazards." |
| | American Journal of Public Health, July 1991, p. 841 (Kenneth Warner) |
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| | Every ton of tobacco consumed results in approximately one death (it may be closer |
| | to 1.3). One in eight deaths in less developed countries is caused by tobacco, one in |
| | four in developed countries, and one in six for the world as a whole. |
| | Tobacco Control, Winter 1994, p. 359 |
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| | Each ton of tobacco produces one million cigarettes, which eventually leads to one |
| | death. |
| | World Health Organization |
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| | There have been more than 60,000 studies in the medical literature linking tobacco |
| | use and disease. |
| | Tobacco Use, p. iii |
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