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Global Tobacco Problem Getting Worse, Not Better

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Tobacco use is responsible for one in three cancer-related deaths.¹ Thanks to 50 years of aggressive public education efforts, tobacco use is declining in most industrialized countries. As a result of this decline and the associated reduction in tobacco-related diseases in the industrialized world, many commentators in the United States have argued that the tobacco problem is going away. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Worldwide, tobacco consumption is actually increasing, driven in part by population growth and economic development in China, India, Indonesia, and parts of Africa and the Middle East. Unless aggressive steps are taken now to change . . . [Click for More]

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