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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 27 International |
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| | International: Western Europe |
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| | Smoking causes 120,000 deaths each year in the United Kingdom, and smoking |
| | prevalence is 28% in adults. |
| | British Medical Journal, January 16, 1999, p. 182 |
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| | In 1991 in Great Britain, there were smokers in three quarters of the families receiving |
| | income support from the government, and one seventh of their disposable income |
| | was spent on cigarettes. |
| | British Medical Journal, November 7, 1998, p. 1266 |
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| | In the United Kingdom, 10% of women and 12% of men in the highest socioeconomic |
| | group are smokers. The figures for the lowest socioeconomic groups are 35% for |
| | women and 40% for men. |
| | Curbing the Epidemic, p. 16 |
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| | In the United Kingdom, 350 deaths a year are due to illicit drugs, 25,000 deaths from |
| | alcohol, and 100,000 deaths a year from smoking. (By 1994, deaths had increased to |
| | 138,000 - Richard Peto.) |
| | British Journal of Addiction 85:313, 1990 |
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| | In England in 1992, 25% of girls and 21% of boys at the age of 15 years were regular |
| | smokers. |
| | Tobacco Control, Spring 1995, p. 103 |
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| | Benson and Hedges cigarettes in the UK have "by appointment to her Majesty the |
| | Queen" printed on each package. |
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