| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 1 Scope of the problem and overall death and disability |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| 1991 tobacco deaths were 491,000, including 195,000 from heart disease, stroke, |
| and vascular disease, 157,000 from cancer, 83,000 from pulmonary disease, 53,000 |
| from passive smoking, and 3500 from burns and pediatric diseases. |
| Archives of Family Medicine, September 1992, p. 129 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| At present smoking rates, at least 5 million American children, none of whom yet |
| smoke, will eventually die from tobacco-induced disease. Worldwide, 200 million |
| children now alive will die from disease caused by tobacco. |
| World Health Organization and Antonia Novello, M.D. |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| The number of US tobacco-related deaths each year equals the number of American |
| troops stationed in Saudi Arabia in February 1991 at the peak of the Desert |
| Shield/Desert Storm buildup. |
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| The number of deaths caused by tobacco in the next decade in the United States will |
| exceed the current combined populations of the cities of Washington, D.C., Boston, |
| San Francisco, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, Miami, Atlanta, and Kansas City. |
| Preventive Medicine 22:514, 1993 |
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| The yearly death toll from tobacco in the United States is equal to the disappearance |
| of a city the size of Denver, Seattle, or Miami. |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| The number of deaths that will be caused by tobacco in the decade of the 1990's in |
| the United States, about 4.5 million, is greater than the current population of 35 of the |
| 50 states. |
| San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 1993 |
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