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Smoking to kill one billion in 21st century: cancer society
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| 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, 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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2006071...er_060711193358 |
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| rabbitjoker |
| Now that is what I call population control! |
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| Floorwhore |
| im sending this to my mom. |
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| Ub3rBreaker |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Now that is what I call population control! |
heh, I was just thinking that |
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| psychosomatica |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Now that is what I call population control! |
No, that's AIDS. |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
| Note to self: don't smoke |
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| Jayx1 |
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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| Time2Burn |
| quote: | 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. |
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| neuromancer |
| oh that, i'm not dead or so it seems .. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | 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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| loca |
| 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, knows. But either ways, they will BOTH die at some point. :conf: |
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