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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 25 African Americans And Smoking |
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| | Among African American males in urban areas, the smoking prevalence rates are |
| | about 40-50%, and up to 50% in unemployed men. In women it is about 35%. |
| | Tobacco Control, Autumn 1995, p. 515 |
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| | African American newspapers and magazines receive about $6 million per year in |
| | tobacco advertising revenue. |
| | Wall Street Journal, October 6, 1986, p. 31 |
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| | From 1960 to 1990 in African Americans, lung cancer increased by 170% in males |
| | and 464% in females. The increase for cancer of the larynx was 77% for males and |
| | 210% for females. |
| | CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, March/April 1996, p. 115 |
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| | An estimated 48,000 African Americans die from smoking-related diseases yearly. |
| | American Lung Association Fact Sheet, Targeted Populations and Smoking |
| | (August 1997 Update) |
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| | African American smokers have more than a threefold higher rate of cancers of the |
| | upper respiratory and digestive tracts than whites. The incidence of oral and |
| | pharyngeal cancer in black men increased by 47% between 1977 and 1988, |
| | compared to a decline in oral cancer of 9% for white men in the same time period. |
| | Western Journal of Medicine, March 1997, p. 189 |
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