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International: General

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The countries with the highest female smoking prevalence (age 15 and over) are

Denmark (37%), Norway (35%), the Czech Republic (31%), Fiji (30.6%), and Israel

and Russia (30%). Countries with a female smoking prevalence of 4% or less include

China, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Egypt,

Saudi Arabia, Lesotho, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.

Tobacco or Health: a Global Status Report, World Health Organization, 1997

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Worldwide, tobacco provides an estimated 47 million jobs, including 30 million in

growing the crop. (15 million of the agricultural jobs are in China.)

10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997 (Kenneth Warner)

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Average 1999 prices in U.S. dollars for a pack of cigarettes are $3.88 in Hong Kong

and $5.50 in the United Kingdom.

CBS evening news, July 8, 1999

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The world's top five tobacco producers are China (2.9 million tons per year), the US

(698,000 tons), India (445,000), Brazil (440,000), and the Soviet Union (242,000

tons). The top consumers are China, the United States, and the former Soviet Union.

Los Angeles Times, June 5, 1990, p. H1 and International Journal of Health

Services 16:281, 1986

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Of the half billion deaths from tobacco expected among people alive today, about 100

million are expected to be in Chinese men.

Curbing the Epidemic, p. 23

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