Posted on 07/10/2006 12:47:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - If current trends hold, tobacco will kill a 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.
The new Cancer Atlas and updated Tobacco Atlas were released Monday at a International Union Against Cancer conference. The American Cancer Society published the two atlases with help from the Union, WHO and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Even if smoking rates decline worldwide, there will be a constant or even slightly increasing number of smokers due to population increases," said Michael Eriksen, director of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University.
An estimated 1.25 billion men and women smoke cigarettes now, according to the Tobacco Atlas.
Why not? That's how they come up with 'alcohol related deaths'.
We used to get a CARTON for $2. They're killin' the dollar, too!!
GMTA. Can you imagine the reaction to an article that read:
AIDS may kill 1 billion this century
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/10/06 | Andrew Bridges - ap
Posted on 07/10/2006 3:47:50 PM EDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - If current trends hold, AIDS will kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, public health officials said Monday.
AIDS accounts for one in five homosexual deaths, or 1.4 million homosexual deaths worldwide each year, according to two new reference guides that chart global AIDS and homosexual activity.
AIDS remains the major death among the 10.9 million new cases of AIDS diagnosed each year, according to the AIDS Atlas. Reducing unprotected sexual encounters, especially with multiple partners, would have the greatest affect on global AIDS rates, health officials said. Improving nutrition and reducing infection by AIDS-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.....
Who cares? Only means that much more air and water for the rest of us,less traffic,more social security funds,cleaner air,less litter, sounds fine to me.
Yup, exactly. Or replace AIDs with "abortion" and really watch the lefties lose their minds...oh wait, they don't have minds to lose.
Smoking is a distant second to Islam. Ban that, and then maybe we can talk smokes.
The pathetic thing is, they are usually the same nazis........
And they all live off the tax dollars. None of them have ever owned a business or been in the private sector.
Great and true observation. LOL!!!
Exactly.
What really gets me is that so many people can not see the big picture here. This is NOT about smoking or tobacco...it is just the next incremental step in total people control by "our betters."
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Bumping back at 'cha!
No, actually it is sex.
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." ~ George Orwell
"Words fall upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. ~ George Orwell
"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever." ~ George Orwell
Apparently, according to these nuts anyone that ever smoked caused them to die.
How much longer would they have lived if they didn't smoke, 20 minutes?
6.5 million out of one billion? Less than two thirds of one percent saved in 40% of the given time frame? I guess their organization isn't really helping as much as we thought. Let's dismantle the World Health Org!!!!
Oh damn... I'm a dead man. Not so bad there, but I'm killing my wife in the process.
There is joke potential there, but this is a family website. ;-)
Thanks for the ping Gabz. It has been a long day/night ... will have to wait until tomorrow.
It's because of all the extra global warming it's going to cause. That ozone hole was a giant penguin putting out his cigarette. I thought everyone knew that.
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