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.
And most of that 3% are non-smokers.
Amazing! We are 6 years into this century and they are already able to predict the next 94 years' worth of death! I'm super dissappointed that I won't be able to live to 132 years!
We should include the govt. in the list of enemies in the War On Terror.
"they call it premature death and it is defined by the health nazis as dying before you're done paying taxes"
Which is why we must not repeal the estate/death tax!
What are they doing?
Handrolling each cigarette individually?
It does. That's the only way the tobacco companies would sign on the dotted line.....if they could pass the cost on to their "customers".
This just in:
All human beings on this planet will die! Exclusive report at 11.
In that case the graphic is fraudulent and deceptive.
The cost to manufacture should be smaller and the "to government" obviously bigger.
Nanny State Ping..........
I know a few of you have already stopped by - but I'm just getting around to this.
This is a good thread - most folks really do get it!!!!
still the government makes more from cigarettes than the cigarette companies do...
Cigarettes are one of the most heavily taxed consumer products in the United States. Federal, state and local governments have a virtual monopoly on tobacco profits, collecting more money from the sale of cigarettes than retailers, wholesalers, farmers and manufacturers combined.
Federal, state and local excise taxes on cigarettes for fiscal year 2004 amounted to more than $20.1 BILLION.
The government per-pack profit from cigarettes in 2004 was $1.88 (or 49 percent of the cost of a pack of cigarettes), more than 13 times the profit for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ($1.88 vs. 14¢).
Government pocketed nearly $77 million a day from smokers from 1998 to 2004. In 2004, government pocketed more tobacco revenue per minute ($58,940) than the average working family brought home in a year ($41,754).
But excise taxes are just one source of government revenues from tobacco. After many years of intense national debate, the major issues regarding cigarette marketing and underage smoking were comprehensively addressed through a Master Settlement Agreement, signed Nov. 23, 1998, by the major U.S. tobacco companies and 46 states and a number of U.S. territories. The provisions of that settlement were similar to those in individual settlements previously reached with the other four states (Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi and Texas).
From 1998-2004, federal, state and local governments collected more than $196 BILLION in tax and Master Settlement Agreement/state payments.
I'd join you but I quit smoking three years ago. Kinda lost it's appeal over time. Still tempted by the occassional cigar though.
"This is a good thread - most folks really do get it!"
Well, on THIS thread anyway, LOL! (I just got here, too. Busy day!)
That must be why the nanny staters don't say anything about male to male sex, they can't tax it.
There is no question that smoking cigarettes is more healthy than smoking meat whistles.
good point, maybe if we taxed bombs then the liberals would get behind dropping them on the terrorists, and then they could claim it is "for the children"
Good point.
So were all gonna die..........
Oh, well.
Yep. The Death rate is still 100% last time I checked.
Nobody gets off the planet alive.
OH, NOOOOO!!!! Don't say we're all gonna DIE!!! If it wasn't for death, life would be sooo simple, or would it?
Me, I want no more than my allotted time. Then, this test is over.
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