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tob2.jpg (3280 bytes)Full text of Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control, World Bank, 1999. Analyses economic, social and health issues around tobacco controls. Translations in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish and Japanese.
Why the report was written, its topics, audience, authors and data sources.
Translation of the World Bank Report on Tobacco Control
Economics of Tobacco Database - Key country-specific data on tobacco use, deaths caused by tobacco use, expenditures on health, tobacco tax structures, levels and revenues regulations and restrictions on tobacco, tobacco leaf and cigarette production, employment related to tobacco, trade: imports and exports (volume and value) of tobacco leaves and cigarettes
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12 myths and facts on: tobacco and the poor, what smokers know about the risks of tobacco, tobacco taxes, rates and revenues, smuggling, impact of tobacco controls on farmers. Questions and answers on strategies governments could use to reduce tobacco use and their cost-effectiveness.
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INDIVIDUAL HAZARDS OF SMOKING
United Kingdom: Current Risks

On average, among 1000 20-year-olds who smoke cigarettes regularly,

  • about 1 will die from homicide
  • about 6 will die from motor vehicles
  • about 250 will be killed by smoking in MIDDLE age alone (+ 250 more in OLD age)
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