Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Toronto - North York
Smoking to kill one billion in 21st century: cancer society
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Smoking will kill one billion people over the course of the 21st century if people continue to smoke at the current rate, the
American Cancer Society said.
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Tobacco use killed 100 million smokers over the past century -- half of them in developing countries, according to two new reference guides on tobacco an cancer released by the US society.
The studies, published in The Cancer Atlas and The Tobacco Atlas, said that 300 million lives could be saved over the next 50 years if smoking was cut in half.
The research notes that tobacco is the only product consumed by humans that kills more than half of its regular users, "with more than half of those deaths occurring between the ages of 30 and 69."
The study found that some one billion men and 250 million women currently smoke cigarettes and that the "global burden of cancer" is increasingly shifting from developed to developing countries.
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Now that is what I call population control!
heh, I was just thinking that
Jul-13-2006 14:47
psychosomatica
500 posts. What a shame.
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Toronto
quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Now that is what I call population control!
No, that's AIDS.
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Jul-13-2006 16:06
*~LiSa-LoO~*
Ferry Corsten's bitch
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: on holiday
Note to self: don't smoke
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Jul-13-2006 16:35
Jayx1
Prime Minister of TOTA
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: The Socialist People's Republic Of Canada
its funny how these days EVERY lung cancer death is linked to smoking or second hand smoke.
Meanwhile its proven that people die from it in many other ways.
1) naturally
2) asbestos exposure
3) radon gas exposure (apparently radon is a problem in 1 out of 4 houses)
4) suspended particulate (ie regular air pollution)
Yet somehow EVERY cancer death is automatically due to smoking these days.
If the government were really serious about preventing lung cancer, instead of trying to win votes, theyd install a radon detector into every single household and try to deal with what is in my opinion the biggest lung cancer threat that most of us face.
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Jul-13-2006 17:23
Time2Burn
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Registered: Mar 2001
Location:
Re: Smoking to kill one billion in 21st century: cancer society
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Originally posted by arek
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Smoking will kill one billion people over the course of the 21st century if people continue to smoke at the current rate
My prediction: 6 Billion people will die over the course of the 21st century if peolple continue to live at the current rate.
Jul-13-2006 17:47
monishb
Transformed
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Vancouver-Toronto-Dubai-Mumbai
good thing i quit
Jul-13-2006 18:16
neuromancer
solving the riddle
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada
oh fuck that, i'm not dead or so it seems ..
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Jul-13-2006 19:51
Cosmic Fur
Debbie Downer
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Mississauga, Canada
Re: Re: Smoking to kill one billion in 21st century: cancer society
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Originally posted by Time2Burn
My prediction: 6 Billion people will die over the course of the 21st century if peolple continue to live at the current rate.
FUUUUCCCK! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!
I need a smoke...
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Jul-13-2006 20:03
loca
the vibe raider
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Oz
Well you're bound to die from something. I saw a funny sign the other day on a bus, it said "One of these 2 people will die from smoking" (or something to that effect). All i could think of was both of these people are going to die anyways lol. One might die from smoking, the other one from drinking, or a car accident, plane crash, fuck knows. But either ways, they will BOTH die at some point.
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