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Smoking's Global Death Toll Shows Shift
11 September 2003
By The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) -- The global death toll from smoking is shifting dramatically, with about as many people now dying from smoking in the developing world as in industrialized nations, according to the most thorough estimate to date.
The research, published this week in The Lancet medical journal, concludes that 4.84 million people died from smoking worldwide in 2000 -- 2.41 million in developing countries and 2.43 million in rich nations.
"This study is the first to quantify that the 21st century's 'brown plague' is striking the world's middle- and low-income countries with an intensity equal to that which has already been felt in the world's high-income nations and is, in fact, on the verge of surpassing it," said John R. Seffrin, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society.
Copyright 2003 The Associated Press
For the Full Article, go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Smoking-Deaths.html
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/
The Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com/
Read the Article, "Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000"
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol362/iss9387/full/llan.362.9387.original_research.27132.1
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Andrea Welch on 12 September 2003
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