Tobacco May Kill 1 Billion By 2100, Study Says

[The Straight Story]

Tobacco May Kill 1 Billion By 2100, Study Says

POSTED: 1:19 pm EDT July 10, 2006
UPDATED: 1:47 pm EDT July 10, 2006

WASHINGTON -- If current trends hold, tobacco will kill one billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, public health officials said Monday.

Tobacco accounts for one in five cancer deaths, or 1.4 million deaths worldwide each year, according to two new reference guides that chart global tobacco use and cancer. Lung cancer remains the major cancer among the 10.9 million new cases of cancer diagnosed each year, according to the Cancer Atlas.

Reducing tobacco use would have the greatest affect on global cancer rates, health officials said. Improving nutrition and reducing infection by cancer-causing viruses and bacteria could also cut rates dramatically, they said.

"We know with cancer, if we take action now, we can save 2 million lives a year by 2020 and 6.5 million by 2040," said Dr. Judith Mackay, a World Health Organization senior policy adviser.

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[sutz12]

1. And aren't we the biggest provider, world wide? nt

[The Straight Story]

6. Like sex, people will always do it. So we should help provide them

with safer cigs :)

[jus_the_facts]

2. Pffft...what about industrial pollution and CAR EXHAUST?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1603159&mesg_id=1603213

....those are much more damaging to the entire planet than people who use tobacco much less those who're near someone using tobacco. :eyes:

[niyad]

3. fewer and fewer people smoking, fewer and fewer places they CAN

smoke, and yet the cancer rates are going up? hmmmmmm, perhaps it doesn't have anything to do with tobacco?

[Hissyspit]

4. MORE and MORE people are smoking.

Worldwide.

[The Straight Story]

5. And I don't really have an issue with it myself

People are free to live or die how they want. After smoking drinking probably kills an insane amount of folks as well. That would be next on the list.

There will always be a leading killer :)

[Mojambo]

7. Maybe I'll finally be able to get a parking space. n/t

[Ron Green]

8. But, but, ... the government can't tell people what TO DO ...

It's a free country, I should be able to do what I want, I don't pay any attention to advertising, alcohol is just as bad, what are they going to ban NEXT????

:sarcasm: