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Tobacco Control 2001;10:210-211; doi:10.1136/tc.10.3.210
Copyright © 2001 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
Tob Control 2001;10:210-211 ( Autumn )

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Poverty and tobacco

Joy de Beyer, Chris Lovelace, Ayda Yürekli

World Bank, Washington DC, USA

Correspondence to: Dr Joy de Beyer, World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington DC 20433, USA jdebeyer@worldbank.org

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    Introduction

Concern about the harm that tobacco use causes usually focuses on the risks of serious illness and premature death that smokers and their families face. The statistics are probably well known to readers of this journal---an estimated 4 million deaths are caused by tobacco each year, with the figure expected to reach 10 million per year by 2030 given current trends in tobacco use.1 The proportion of that burden borne by people living in low and middle income countries is rapidly increasing from 50% to 70%. Countries still grappling with infectious diseases traditionally associated with low incomes, increasingly also face a rising epidemic of cancers, and respiratory and circulatory diseases caused by tobacco.

Many (but not all) of the risks to health and life caused by tobacco consumption develop over a long period, and take decades to become fully evident. But tobacco use can also inflict immediate harm on users and their . . . [Full text of this article]
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