| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 27 International |
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| International: India and Bangladesh |
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| Tobacco was introduced to India by Portuguese traders about 1600. Of the 400 |
| million people age 15 or over in India, 47 percent use tobacco in some form, including |
| 16 percent who use smokeless tobacco. Including Pakistan, there are an estimated |
| 100 million smokeless tobacco users on the subcontinent. |
| Smokeless Tobacco or Health, pp. 51 and 315 |
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| In India and Southeast Asia, cancer of the oral cavity represents about 35 percent of |
| all malignant tumors. |
| CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, November-December 1995, p. 352 |
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| In India in 1983, 59% of men and 3% of women were smokers. |
| Minorities and Cancer, p. 148 |
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| Per capita cigarette consumption in India has increased by 80% since 1972. |
| 9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (Alan Lopez) |
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| In India, the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use among men is 30% (women 30%), |
| smoking 43% (4% in women), and overall tobacco use 65% in men and 33% in |
| women. |
| 9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (P. Gupta) |
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| "Delhi's air is the most polluted of any city in the world. Breathing it is as dangerous as |
| smoking twenty cigarettes a day." |
| The Ends of the Earth, Robert Kaplan, Random House, 1996, p. 350 |
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