Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco
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- 2 January 2014
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 370 (1), 60-68
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra1308383
Abstract
On the basis of current smoking patterns, with a global average of about 50% of young men and 10% of young women becoming smokers and relatively few stopping, annual tobacco-attributable deaths will rise from about 5 million in 2010 to more than 10 million a few decades hence,1-3 as the young smokers of today reach middle and old age. This increase is due partly to population growth and partly to the fact that, in some large populations, generations in which few people smoked substantial numbers of cigarettes throughout adult life are being succeeded by generations in which many people did so. There were about 100 million deaths from tobacco in the 20th century, most in developed countries.2,3 If current smoking patterns persist, tobacco will kill about 1 billion people this century, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. About half of these deaths will occur before 70 years of age.1-4Keywords
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