| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 25 African Americans And Smoking |
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| African-Americans absorb significantly more nicotine per cigarette smoked than do whites. |
| Journal of the National Cancer Institute, August 18, 1999, p. 1367 |
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| The American Cancer Society in 1981 published a brochure entitled Smoking and Genocide. The word genocide was removed from subsequent editions of the ACS brochure because of fear of offending potential contributors. |
| Minorities and Cancer, Lovell Jones, Springer-Verlag, 1989, p. 152 |
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| The years of potential life lost before age 65 attributed to smoking for African Americans is twice that for whites. The lung cancer death rate is 2.3 times higher in blacks than for whites. And from 1980 through 1990, lung cancer increased 99% for African American females compared to 86% for white females, and 32% for African-American males compared to 21% for white males. |
| Tobacco Use: An American Crisis, p. 44 |
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| In 1987, the proportion of persons who ever smoked and had successfully quit was 46% for whites but only 31% for blacks. |
| Tobacco Use, p. 44 |
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| A billboard produced by the National Medical Association in white tombstone letters on a black background says: "Last year 45,000 African Americans died for a cigarette. To die for smoking is to die for nothing." |
| JAMA, September 8, 1993 |
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