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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 2 Demographics of tobacco use |
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| | The three largest consumers of cigarettes in 1989 were China (1586 billion), the |
| | United States (556 billion), and the USSR (468 billion). |
| | American Medical News, September 28, 1992 |
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| | Smoking has been responsible for 60,000,000 deaths since the 1950's. |
| | Associated Press, September 20, 1994 |
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| | The World Health Organization estimates that 500 million of the 5.3 billion people |
| | populating the earth in 1990 will die from disease caused by tobacco. |
| | British Medical Journal, September 28, 1991, p. 732 |
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| | The World Health Organization estimates that unless present trends change, 200 to |
| | 250 million of the world's children, none of whom yet smoke, will eventually die from |
| | smoking-induced disease. Two thirds of these are from developing countries, and |
| | each will lose an average of 20 years of life. |
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| | About a third of the global population age 15 and older are smokers, 1.1 billion |
| | people in all. 800 million of these are in developing countries, and most of these |
| | smokers in developing countries are men (700 out of 800 million). |
| | Tobacco or Health: A Global Status Report, 1997, p. 12 |
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| | There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world, 300 million in developed or "rich" countries |
| | and 800 million in the developing world. Of the total, 900 million are males and 200 |
| | million are females. |
| | 9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (Alan Lopez) |
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