| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 2 Demographics of tobacco use |
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| In a survey of medical students graduating in 1996, 2% were current smokers, and |
| 13% were former smokers. |
| JAMA, October 7, 1998, p. 1192 |
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| 48% of gay men in a survey were current smokers, a rate much higher than the |
| smoking prevalence of 28.6% of men in the general population. |
| American Journal of Public Health, December 1999, p. 1875 |
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| 1998 AIDS deaths worldwide were 2.28 million, comparable to the previous year. |
| Tuberculosis 1998 deaths were just under 1.5 million. |
| Associated Press, May 12, 1999 |
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| Worldwide, there were 2.6 million deaths from AIDS in 1999, and a total of 16.3 |
| million deaths since the epidemic began. 33.6 million people are living with AIDS or |
| are infected with HIV; more than two thirds are in sub-Saharan Africa. 5.6 million |
| people were newly infected with HIV in 1999. |
| Report for World AIDS Day, December 1, 1999 |
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| Deaths from AIDS in the United States decreased from 49,357 in 1995 to 36,792 in |
| 1996, 21,222 in 1997 and 17,047 in 1998. In the late 1990's there were about 40,000 |
| new cases of AIDS each year, a decrease from a peak of 150,000 cases a year a |
| decade earlier. |
| CDC Data |
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