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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 2 Demographics of tobacco use

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In a survey of medical students graduating in 1996, 2% were current smokers, and

13% were former smokers.

JAMA, October 7, 1998, p. 1192

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48% of gay men in a survey were current smokers, a rate much higher than the

smoking prevalence of 28.6% of men in the general population.

American Journal of Public Health, December 1999, p. 1875

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1998 AIDS deaths worldwide were 2.28 million, comparable to the previous year.

Tuberculosis 1998 deaths were just under 1.5 million.

Associated Press, May 12, 1999

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Worldwide, there were 2.6 million deaths from AIDS in 1999, and a total of 16.3

million deaths since the epidemic began. 33.6 million people are living with AIDS or

are infected with HIV; more than two thirds are in sub-Saharan Africa. 5.6 million

people were newly infected with HIV in 1999.

Report for World AIDS Day, December 1, 1999

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Deaths from AIDS in the United States decreased from 49,357 in 1995 to 36,792 in

1996, 21,222 in 1997 and 17,047 in 1998. In the late 1990's there were about 40,000

new cases of AIDS each year, a decrease from a peak of 150,000 cases a year a

decade earlier.

CDC Data

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