| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 27 International |
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| International: General |
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| On average, about 50% of men and 8% of women in developing countries are |
| smokers. About 800 million of the world's 1.1 billion smokers (73% of the total) are in |
| developing countries. |
| Tobacco Control, Winter 1995, p. 327 |
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| During the 1980's, while per capita cigarette consumption was declining an average |
| of 1.4% per year in developed countries, it rose an average of 1.7% annually in |
| less-developed countries. In 1970, per capita consumption was 3.25 times higher in |
| developed countries as in less-developed countries. By 1992, the ratio had fallen to |
| 1.75, and it is expected to be equal by 2005 or 2010. |
| Smoke and Mirrors, pp. 209-210 |
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| While low tar and nicotine cigarettes are popular in developed countries, most |
| cigarettes available in underdeveloped countries are very high in tar and nicotine. |
| NEJM, March 28, 1991, p. 918 |
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| 1990 smoking prevalence in the Philippines was 64% of men and 19% of women; in |
| India, 53% of men and 3% of women; in China, 61% of men and 7% of women; in |
| Russia, 50% of men and 12% of women; and in Saudi Arabia, 53% of men and only |
| 2% of women. |
| American Medical News, October 3, 1994, p. 14 |
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| "A white supremacist racism is explicit in much Third World tobacco advertising...with |
| products in Western settings with Caucasian models...Such advertising...offering |
| vicarious participation in wildly fantastic jet-setting lifestyles to populations often living |
| in the world's worst squalor and shanty-town degradation." |
| Tobacco Control in the Third World, p. 78 |
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