Chapter 25 African Americans And Smoking

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African-Americans absorb significantly more nicotine per cigarette smoked than do

whites.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, August 18, 1999, p. 1367

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The American Cancer Society in 1981 published a brochure entitled Smoking and

Genocide. The word genocide was removed from subsequent editions of the ACS

brochure because of fear of offending potential contributors.

Minorities and Cancer, Lovell Jones, Springer-Verlag, 1989, p. 152

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The years of potential life lost before age 65 attributed to smoking for African

Americans is twice that for whites. The lung cancer death rate is 2.3 times higher in

blacks than for whites. And from 1980 through 1990, lung cancer increased 99% for

African American females compared to 86% for white females, and 32% for

African-American males compared to 21% for white males.

Tobacco Use: An American Crisis, p. 44

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In 1987, the proportion of persons who ever smoked and had successfully quit was

46% for whites but only 31% for blacks.

Tobacco Use, p. 44

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A billboard produced by the National Medical Association in white tombstone letters

on a black background says: "Last year 45,000 African Americans died for a

cigarette. To die for smoking is to die for nothing."

JAMA, September 8, 1993

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