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International: Russia and the former Soviet Union

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In a survey from Yerevan, Armenia, 57% of physicians were smokers (81% of males

and 42% of females), and 39% smoked near their patients. 39.6% of pregnant

patients and 37% of teenagers also smoked.

` Abstract OS 253, 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997

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Cigarette brands in Russia include standard American brands plus new ones that

glamorize the Western way of life. These include Hollywood, West, and Apollo Soyuz

(depicting the joint ventures in space programs.)

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In Russia, cigarette consumption rose 25% between 1988 and 1993.

Conde Nast Traveler, August 1995, p. 49

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Almost 50% of the male physicians in the former Soviet Union smoke, and 40% of

Polish medical students are smokers.

American Medical News, October 3, 1994, p. 14

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From 1965 to 1989, the number of cigarettes imported into Russia has doubled to

more than 73 billion per year, and Russia is now the largest importer of tobacco

products in the world. In 1990 during the Russian economic crisis, RJ Reynolds, Philip

Morris, and the British American Tobacco Company made "emergency" shipments

of an estimated 38 billion cigarettes to Russia.

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, October 1995, p. 1007

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