Study: Smoking Death Rates Equal Throughout World
Most Smoking Deaths Worldwide Among Men
POSTED: 8:00 am MDT September 12, 2003
LONDON -- A new estimate of tobacco deaths says smoking is killing equally in the developing and developed world.
The research, published in this week's issue of the journal The Lancet, said deaths attributed to tobacco use are about equal in both groups. It estimates 4.8 million people died worldwide in 2000 from smoking-related diseases.More than three-fourths of all smoking deaths worldwide were among men -- and in developing nations, 84 percent of the smoking deaths were in men.
Dr. Majid Ezzati, a researcher from the Harvard School of Public Health, said tobacco is no longer just a Western risk. He said it will require a lot more antitobacco efforts in developing countries.The researchers found that the main causes of death worldwide were cardiovascular disease, with 1.7 million deaths; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, with just under 1 million deaths; and lung cancer, with around 850,000 deaths.
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