| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 1 Scope of the problem and overall death and disability |
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| Total AIDS cases in the US from 1981 through October 1995 were 494,493 adults |
| and adolescents and 6817 children. Total AIDS deaths in this fourteen-year period |
| were 311,381, equal to about nine months of deaths caused by tobacco. |
| US News and World Report, January 8, 1996, p. 16 |
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| Deaths from AIDS in the United States peaked at 43,115 in 1995, and declined to |
| 31,130 in 1996 and 16, 685 in 1997. |
| New York Times, October 8, 1998 |
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