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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 1 Scope of the problem and overall death and disability |
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| | "Tobacco is the single, chief, avoidable cause of death in our society, and the most |
| | important public issue of our time." |
| | C. Everett Koop, M.D., 1984 |
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| | Deaths caused by smoking in developed countries from 1950 to 2000 will total an |
| | estimated 52 million men (20% of the total deaths) and 10.5 million women (4% of all |
| | deaths of women in this time period.) |
| | Tobacco or Health: A Global Status Report, 1997, p. 44 |
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| | Annual tobacco-attributable mortality is expected to increase from three million deaths |
| | in 1990 to 8.4 million in 2020, with almost all of this annual increase (4.7 million out of |
| | 5.4 million deaths) expected to occur in developing countries. |
| | The Global Burden of Disease, Christopher Murray and Alan Lopez, Harvard |
| | University Press, 1996, p. 317 |
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| | Annual worldwide deaths from cigarettes will quadruple from the present 2.5 million to |
| | 10 million by the year 2030. |
| | Mortality from Smoking, Richard Peto |
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| | The 434,000 Americans who die from smoking each year exceed the combined total |
| | of deaths from car accidents, plane crashes, homicide, suicide, AIDS, alcohol, and |
| | drug abuse. |
| | Saving Lives and Raising Revenue Coalition on Smoking or Health, February 1995 |
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| | The death toll from tobacco is equivalent to four fully loaded jumbo jets crashing each |
| | day, each one without any survivors. |
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