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International: India and Bangladesh

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Tobacco was introduced to India by Portuguese traders about 1600. Of the 400

million people age 15 or over in India, 47 percent use tobacco in some form, including

16 percent who use smokeless tobacco. Including Pakistan, there are an estimated

100 million smokeless tobacco users on the subcontinent.

Smokeless Tobacco or Health, pp. 51 and 315

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In India and Southeast Asia, cancer of the oral cavity represents about 35 percent of

all malignant tumors.

CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, November-December 1995, p. 352

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In India in 1983, 59% of men and 3% of women were smokers.

Minorities and Cancer, p. 148

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Per capita cigarette consumption in India has increased by 80% since 1972.

9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (Alan Lopez)

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In India, the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use among men is 30% (women 30%),

smoking 43% (4% in women), and overall tobacco use 65% in men and 33% in

women.

9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (P. Gupta)

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"Delhi's air is the most polluted of any city in the world. Breathing it is as dangerous as

smoking twenty cigarettes a day."

The Ends of the Earth, Robert Kaplan, Random House, 1996, p. 350

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