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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 27 International |
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| | International: Eastern Europe |
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| | Philip Morris spokesman Michael Parsons sees "a lot of people around Eastern |
| | Europe right now who are very glad that the Marlboro Man came in. I think people are |
| | seeing right in front of their eyes that it's good for them." |
| | INFACT Update, Winter 1994-95 |
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| | Five Eastern European nations are among the top ten consumers of cigarettes per |
| | capita (1993 data, cigarettes smoked per person per year). The top countries are, in |
| | order: Greece (2800 per capita), Hungary, Japan, Poland (2600), South Korea, |
| | Switzerland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Spain, and Czech and Slovak (approximately 1950 |
| | cigarettes per capita per year). |
| | Washington Post National Weekly Edition, December 9-15, 1996, p. 9 |
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| | 42% to 45% of premature deaths in men ages 35 to 69 are attributable to smoking in |
| | the countries of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia. |
| | International Union Against Cancer (Geneva) newsletter, January 1995 |
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| | In Eastern Europe, the chance of a 15 year old boy living to age 60 is lower than a |
| | child growing up in China, Latin America, or even India. |
| | Multinational Monitor, July-August 1997, p. 25 |
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| | "The tobacco epidemic in Eastern Europe is worse than anywhere else in the world. |
| | Consumption in some countries is about twice the world average and still increasing. |
| | High smoking rates have been around for decades. WHO estimates that in Eastern |
| | Europe there are now 763,000 tobacco-related deaths a year, about one quarter of |
| | the world's total. In Eastern Europe, as many as 80% of these tobacco-related deaths |
| | occur before the age of 70; the comparable rate in Western countries is estimated at |
| | 50% or less. In some parts of Eastern Europe, lung cancer rates in men are the |
| | highest ever recorded anywhere in the world." |
| | Smoke and Mirrors, p. 237 (Rob Cunningham) |
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