| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 27 International |
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| International: Russia and the former Soviet Union |
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| A 1992 survey in Russia showed a peak smoking prevalence in the age group 30 to |
| 40, 72% of men and 13% of women. |
| 9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (S. Shalnova) |
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| In Russia, 73% of men ages 25 to 34 are smokers. |
| Tobacco Control, Spring 1998, p. 22 |
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| The average smoker in the Soviet Union spends 10% of his or her total income on |
| cigarettes. |
| Wall Street Journal, September 27, 1990, p. A13 |
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| Marlboro in the early 1990's was the only foreign cigarette sold in the former Soviet |
| Union, which is the world's third largest cigarette market behind China and the US. |
| Social Science and Medicine 38:111, 1993 |
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| The Marlboro Man, long banned from US television, is riding freely over the Russian |
| airways. Also on Russian television many nights, a sexy young couple in the |
| wide-open American desert share a sensual moment with a Lucky Strike - "the real |
| America", Russians are told. Western cigarettes are advertised as the key to a free |
| and romantic lifestyle. Tanya Rydlevich, a Moscow City Council member, says: "If they |
| want to introduce an American way of life, fine, but it should be a healthy way, not |
| something Americans have already rejected. What do they have, a wish to destroy our |
| people?" |
| Washington Post National Weekly Edition, August 23, 1993, p. 18 |
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