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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 27 International |
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| | International: India and Bangladesh |
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| | 43% of all cancers in Sri Lanka are tobacco related. An advertising ban was imposed |
| | in 1999. |
| | Lancet, October 10, 1998, p. 1204 |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| | In Bangladesh, cigarette consumption more than doubled in the last 10 to 15 years. |
| | The popular film hero is seldom to be seen in a moment of crisis without a cigarette. |
| | The most important tobacco health risk may be the reduction in nutritional status of |
| | young children that results from expenditure on tobacco in households whose income |
| | for food purchase is already marginal. |
| | Lancet, May 16, 1991, p. 1090 |
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| | Low-income people in Bangladesh who smoke have to cut food purchases to pay for |
| | tobacco, leading to a reduction of daily caloric intake to 1700 from an already low |
| | 2000. |
| | Panos Briefing, September 1994, p. 9 |
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| | In Bangladesh, the perinatal mortality is 27% for children of smoking mothers, more |
| | than twice the rate for babies of nonsmokers. |
| | NEJM, March 28, 1991, p. 918 |
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| | In Bangladesh, as many as 20-30% of women in rural areas use smokeless tobacco. |
| | Tobacco and Health, p. 178 |
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