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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


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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

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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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