SMOKING KILLED FIVE MILLION WORLDWIDE IN 2000

Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000

Thursday, September 11, 2003

London (Reuters) - Smoking killed nearly five million people in 2000, accounting for almost equal
numbers in the developed and developing nations and painting a bleak picture for the future,
scientists said on Friday.

Men accounted for three-quarters of all the deaths, a figure rising to 84 percent in the developing
nations where 930 million of the world's 1.1 billion smokers are to be found, researchers from
Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts and Queensland University, Australia said
in the Lancet medical journal.

The main causes of the tobacco-related deaths were heart and lung diseases, they noted.

The news comes as the major tobacco companies, increasingly under siege in the industrialized
world, switch their sales efforts to emerging nations with their expanding populations and rising
spending power.

"Our findings mark the beginning of an era when the majority of smoking-caused deaths occur in
developing countries," lead author Majid Ezzati of Harvard said.

"Smoking-related deaths will rise substantially, especially in developing countries, unless
effective intervention and policies to curb and reduce smoking among men and prevent rises among
women are implemented," he added.

Ezzati said that although anti-smoking policies were being widely implemented in the developed
world, they were lagging far behind in the poorer nations, which consequently faced a rising hazard.

The World Health Organization (news - web sites) (WHO) estimates that tobacco-related deaths will at
least double by 2030 as smoking takes its toll of men in the developing world and more women start
to take up the habit.

"This should provide a motivation to strengthen the case to implement tobacco control programs and
policies, which have generally lagged in developing countries, worldwide," Ezzati said.

Earlier this year the WHO adopted a sweeping anti-tobacco treaty in a bid to curb the product that
it said is a death warrant for half its habitual users.

Source - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...11/hl_nm/heal-
th_smoking_dc

Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 in part by Karmadillo

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Which countries do or do not want to minimize early tobacco-related deaths

I think this is an important question. In China, international tobacco companies are trying to force
their way into trade via WTO threats. Does China care more about protecting its tobacco trade,
allowing in big international bucks, discouraging its populace from ensuring early death by becoming
addicted to tobacco, domestic or foreign?

As a matter of fact, what does our government think about this? I know three people, one of which is
my father, who died from smoking-induced (apparently) lung cancer in the past two years. Two were
80; one was 54. They are no longer a concern of the government, I suppose.

Am I totally cynical,and if so, am I totally wrong?

s_m

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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:38:26 GMT, usenet@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj)
wrote:
>Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000

If those five million were anti-smoker Nazis, then what's the problem?

Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
>
> Thursday, September 11, 2003
>
> London (Reuters) - Smoking killed nearly five million people in 2000, accounting for almost equal
> numbers in the developed and developing nations and painting a bleak picture for the future,
> scientists said on Friday.
>
> Men accounted for three-quarters of all the deaths, a figure rising to 84 percent in the
> developing nations where 930 million of the world's 1.1 billion smokers are to be found,
> researchers from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts and Queensland
> University, Australia said in the Lancet medical journal.
>
> The main causes of the tobacco-related deaths were heart and lung diseases, they noted.
>
> The news comes as the major tobacco companies, increasingly under siege in the industrialized
> world, switch their sales efforts to emerging nations with their expanding populations and rising
> spending power.
>
> "Our findings mark the beginning of an era when the majority of smoking-caused deaths occur in
> developing countries," lead author Majid Ezzati of Harvard said.
>
> "Smoking-related deaths will rise substantially, especially in developing countries, unless
> effective intervention and policies to curb and reduce smoking among men and prevent rises among
> women are implemented," he added.
>
> Ezzati said that although anti-smoking policies were being widely implemented in the
> developed world, they were lagging far behind in the poorer nations, which consequently faced
> a rising hazard.
>
> The World Health Organization (news - web sites) (WHO) estimates that tobacco-related deaths will
> at least double by 2030 as smoking takes its toll of men in the developing world and more women
> start to take up the habit.
>
> "This should provide a motivation to strengthen the case to implement tobacco control programs and
> policies, which have generally lagged in developing countries, worldwide," Ezzati said.
>
> Earlier this year the WHO adopted a sweeping anti-tobacco treaty in a bid to curb the product that
> it said is a death warrant for half its habitual users.
>
> Source - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...0911/hl_nm/he-
> alth_smoking_dc
>
> Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 in part by Karmadillo
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> Which countries do or do not want to minimize early tobacco-related deaths
>
> I think this is an important question. In China, international tobacco companies are trying to
> force their way into trade via WTO threats. Does China care more about protecting its tobacco
> trade, allowing in big international bucks, discouraging its populace from ensuring early death by
> becoming addicted to tobacco, domestic or foreign?
>
> As a matter of fact, what does our government think about this? I know three people, one of which
> is my father, who died from smoking-induced (apparently) lung cancer in the past two years. Two
> were 80; one was 54. They are no longer a concern of the government, I suppose.
>
> Am I totally cynical,and if so, am I totally wrong?
>
> s_m
>
> Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 by
>
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>
> Jai Maharaj http://www.mantra.com/jai Om Shanti
>
> Panchaang for 17 Bhadrapad 5104, Thursday, September 11, 2003:
>
> Shubhanu Nama Samvatsare Dakshinaya Jivana Ritau Singh Mase Krishna Pakshe Guru Vasara Yuktayam
> Uttaraprostapad Nakshatr Ganda Yog Kaulav-Taitil Karan Pratham-Dvitiya Yam Tithau
>
> Hindu Holocaust Museum http://www.mantra.com/holocaust
>
> Hindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy http://www.hindu.org http://www.hindunet.org
>
> The truth about Islam and Muslims http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
>
> o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational purposes of research
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> poster.

Ask us if we give a Damm .

In <8ed928ee.0309120601.71ff2b03@posting.google.com>, on 09/12/03
at 07:01 AM, nicotine_addicts_suck@yahoo.com (Smokers Suckit) said:

>Kyoteee <kyoteee@mindnospamspring.com> wrote in message
>news:<vg93mvsscq4m1ut868dae87j817fkb704i@4ax.com>... > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003
>07:38:26 GMT, usenet@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) > wrote:
>> >Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
>>
>> If those five million were anti-smoker Nazis, then what's the problem?

>You are too stupid to care that a drug addiction that tastes bad, smells bad and has no enjoyable
>effect other than quieting the physical discomfort of withdrawal is killing you. What does that say
>about you? Never mind, you're too deep in denial to ever figure it out.

Well the problem you have is that you guys want everyone to think that smoking causes a 100% lung
cancer rate -- when the fact is that something less then 8% of all smokers get lung cancer. More
people probably die from sitting in traffic breathing in the crap from Suvs -- the trouble is we
aren't collecting the data on it.

Now I do agree that smoking is nasty to some, but there are lot of things that do that -- and we
aren't trying to ban them. How come?

Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:

> Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000

Is that all? Just 5 million?

usenet@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote in message news:<health-0351.20030911@news.mantra.com>...
> Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
>
> Thursday, September 11, 2003
>
> London (Reuters) - Smoking killed nearly five million people in 2000

<copyright violation snipped>

Jay/Johnny, is there any way I can persuade you to take up smoking? The sooner you're 5 feet under,
the better for all of us.

"Dr. Jai Maharaj" <usenet@mantra.com> wrote in message
news:health-0351.20030911@news.mantra.com...
> Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000

Hunger killed nearly three times that...

"Dr. Jai Maharaj" <usenet@mantra.com> wrote in message
news:health-0351.20030911@news.mantra.com...
> Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000

Did I mention that most of the 'victims' of starvation were children?

Kyoteee wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:38:26 GMT, usenet@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>
>>Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
>
>
> If those five million were anti-smoker Nazis, then what's the problem?
>

It needs to get more of them.

Kyoteee <kyoteee@mindnospamspring.com> wrote in message news:<vg93mvsscq4m1ut868dae87j817fkb704i@4ax.com>...
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:38:26 GMT, usenet@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> >Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
>
> If those five million were anti-smoker Nazis, then what's the problem?

You are too stupid to care that a drug addiction that tastes bad, smells bad and has no enjoyable
effect other than quieting the physical discomfort of withdrawal is killing you. What does that say
about you? Never mind, you're too deep in denial to ever figure it out.

rumik <rumik@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<kmo8b.6457$k81.622066@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
>
> > Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
>
> Is that all? Just 5 million?

Yeah, is that estimate hopelessly low or what? The operative though is that smoking kills, just like
it's killing you.

Light one up!

> > Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
>
> Hunger killed nearly three times that...

. . .and your point is what? Because hunger is a significant problem in the world, we shouldn't
concern ourselves with the other significant problems?

Smokers Suckit wrote:
> Kyoteee <kyoteee@mindnospamspring.com> wrote in message
> news:<vg93mvsscq4m1ut868dae87j817fkb704i@4ax.com>...
>
>>On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:38:26 GMT, usenet@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>>
>>>Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
>>
>>If those five million were anti-smoker Nazis, then what's the problem?
>
>
> You are too stupid to care that a drug addiction that tastes bad, smells bad and has no enjoyable
> effect other than quieting the physical discomfort of withdrawal is killing you. What does that
> say about you? Never mind, you're too deep in denial to ever figure it out.

Alkie !

In article <8ed928ee.0309121523.39e9f715@posting.google.com>,
nicotine_addicts_suck@yahoo.com (Smokers Suckit) posted:
>
> rumik <rumik@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<kmo8b.6457$k81.622066@news20.bellglobal.com>...

> > Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> >
> > > Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
> >
> > Is that all? Just 5 million?

> Yeah, is that estimate hopelessly low or what? The operative though is that smoking kills, just
> like it's killing you.
>
> Light one up!

Don't. Smoking kills.

Jai Maharaj http://www.mantra.com/jai Om Shanti

In article <3f61e16b$1$ryrgbhearnh$mr2ice@news.verizon.net>,
letoured@nospam.net posted:
>
> In <8ed928ee.0309120601.71ff2b03@posting.google.com>, on 09/12/03 at 07:01 AM,
> nicotine_addicts_suck@yahoo.com (Smokers Suckit) said:
>
> >Kyoteee <kyoteee@mindnospamspring.com> wrote in message
> >news:<vg93mvsscq4m1ut868dae87j817fkb704i@4ax.com>... > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003
> >07:38:26 GMT, usenet@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) > wrote:
> >> >Smoking Killed Five Million Worldwide in 2000
> >>
> >> If those five million were anti-smoker Nazis, then what's the problem?
>
> >You are too stupid to care that a drug addiction that tastes bad, smells bad and has no enjoyable
> >effect other than quieting the physical discomfort of withdrawal is killing you. What does that
> >say about you? Never mind, you're too deep in denial to ever figure it out.
>
> Well the problem you have is that you guys want everyone to think that smoking causes a 100% lung
> cancer rate -- when the fact is that something less then 8% of all smokers get lung cancer. More
> people probably die from sitting in traffic breathing in the crap from Suvs -- the trouble is we
> aren't collecting the data on it.
>
> Now I do agree that smoking is nasty to some, but there are lot of things that do that -- and we
> aren't trying to ban them. How come?

Where have you been? Murder *is* banned -- in fact, it is a crime.

Jai Maharaj http://www.mantra.com/jai Om Shanti