While reading about breast cancer, I came across the following: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_data/health_consequences/mortali.htm
"Between 1960 and 1990, deaths from lung cancer among women have increased by more than 400%--exceeding breast cancer deaths in the mid-1980s. The American Cancer Society estimated that in 1994, 64,300 women died from lung cancer and 44,300 died from breast cancer." From: http://msnbc.com/news/788780.asp?0dm=C13KH "In 1980, emphysema killed 16,000 women and 37,000 men. In 2000, it killed 60,000 women and 59,000 men. �This is a silent epidemic that we are now just beginning to bring to light and have the public recognize� said Dr. Barry Make of National Jewish Medical and Research Center." Among Chinese men, tobacco is also taking its toll (Chinese women are not (yet) taking up smoking at the same rate): http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v5/n1/full/nm0199_15.html "The largest study ever undertaken to examine the health effects of tobacco finds that there are already a million deaths a year from smoking in China, and it predicts large increases in mortality over the next few decades. This pattern is likely to be repeated in other developing countries. "...Both the retrospective study and the early results from the prospective study in China indicate that in 1990 tobacco caused about 12 percent of adult male deaths, and by 2030 it will probably be a cause of about one third of them." Cigarette Tag Maru __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
