The Tobacco Reference Guide

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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