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Tobacco related deaths

Eddie Farah

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Posted by Eddie FarahJuly 14, 2006 11:42 AM

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According to the American Cancer Society tobacco potentially will kill a billion people in the 21st Century; more than 10 fold the number who died in the 20th century.

Researcher state that 1.4 million deaths each year are from tobacco related cancer.

Lung cancer remains the major cancer among the 10.9 million new cases of cancer diagnosed each year.

The American Cancer Society published two atlases, the New Cancer Atlas and Tobacco Atlas and released these finding at an International Union Against Cancer conference recently. They report

reducing tobacco use would the greatest affect on global cancer rates. Improving nutrition and reducing infection by cancer-causing viruses and bacteria could also cut rates dramatically.

There are approximately 1.25 billion cigarette smokers world wide.

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