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Smoking in public has declined
dramatically since social acceptance changed, and gradually state
laws followed in the 1990s and 2000s. The overall smoking rate in the
United States is only half what it was in 1950.
Time to declare victory and move on to
other issues? ...maybe not. Tobacco is still killing Americans in shockingly high numbers.
The World Health Organization of the United Nations has just released a report analyzing the effect of tobacco use on death rates around the world. Despite the fact that smoking is more prevalent and better-accepted in other countries, the USA has the world's highest death rates from smoking. 23% of all deaths in America can be traced to smoking, compared to 5% in France and 12% in Japan, both of which have higher smoking rates and lower rates of mortality overall.
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2012/9789241564434_eng.pdf
Proportion of deaths attributable to tobacco
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Russia |
4% |
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France |
5% |
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Brazil |
6% |
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Italy |
7% |
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Germany |
9% |
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China |
11% |
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Japan |
12% |
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GLOBAL AVERAGE |
12% |
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Australia |
14% |
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United Kingdom |
20% |
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Canada |
20% |
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USA |
23%
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Josh Mitteldorf, a senior editor at OpEdNews, was educated to be an astrophysicist, and has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. He is an (more...)
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Blame Smoking = Blame the Victims
by John Jonik on Monday, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:51:38 PM
double weird
by zzz05 on Monday, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:52:23 PM
It goes back to 3 things
by Doc "Old Codger" McCoy on Monday, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:49:04 PM
The comparative analysis
by Doc "Old Codger" McCoy on Monday, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:00:45 PM
Those folks at WHO ain't so dumb
by Josh Mitteldorf on Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:23:24 AM
More....
by John Jonik on Monday, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:10:22 PM
John
by Doc "Old Codger" McCoy on Monday, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:47:14 PM
Who's Statistics?
by Scott Baker on Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:08:39 AM
Smoking Kills
by Bob Alexander on Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:05:38 AM
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