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International: Eastern Europe

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In Turkey, 63% of adult men and 25% of women (including 48% of doctors) were

smokers in a 1988 survey, and the country of 62.5 million people (in 1995) ranked

sixth in the world in cigarette consumption. In a survey of children ages 7 to 13 years,

14% of boys and 9% of girls had smoked, and either one or both parents of 66% of

children were smokers.

Chest, September, 1997, p. 863

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In a survey from Ankara, Turkey, 44% of physicians were current smokers, as were

31.5% of male and 20% of female high school students.

Abstracts OS 325 and PO 12, 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health,

Beijing, 1997

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In Poland in the early 1980's, 70% of male physicians smoked, as did more than 50%

in the Netherlands, Greece, France, Spain, and Hungary.

European Journal of Respiratory Disease 69:209, 1986

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There are 12 million tobacco consumers in Poland out of a total population of 38

million, and 4 million smokers in Hungary out of 10.6 million people.

Tobacco and Health, p. 57

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In Poland, up to 50% of all billboard and press advertisements are for tobacco, and

the tobacco industry is the source of 50% of the entire profit of advertising companies.

International Union Against Cancer (Geneva) newsletter, January 1995

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