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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 8 Other Cancers |
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| | Other Cancers: General |
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| | Cancer death rates would have declined over the last three decades in the United |
| | States were it not for an increase in lung cancer and other cancers related to smoking. |
| | AMA Fact Sheet on Smoking |
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| | Cigarette smoking contributed to 157,000 of the 514,000 total cancer deaths in the |
| | United States in 1991. Smoking directly contributes to 22% of all cancer deaths in |
| | women and 45% of all cancer deaths in men. Lung cancer has displaced coronary |
| | heart disease as the single leading cause of excess mortality among smokers. |
| | Journal of the National Cancer Institute, August 21, 1991, p. 1142 |
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