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??Who likes a smoke?????GREECE has the highest smoking rate in the world, with each person puffing over eight cigarettes every day according to ERC, a market-research company. Of the 123 countries surveyed, 17 European countries feature in the top 20. Smoking rates tend to decline when countries get wealthier, thanks to higher taxes, bans and [...]
??ON APRIL 1st America’s government announced a big increase in taxes on cigarettes. Federal taxes leapt from 39 cents to .01 a packet. American smokers also pay state taxes ranging from 17 cents in Missouri to a whopping .75 in New York. Anti-smoking campaigners argue that higher taxes encourage smokers to quit and deter others [...]
One in every 25 deaths worldwide can be linked to diseases or injuries related to alcohol consumption, concludes a Canadian-led study, which equates the libation’s burden of harm to that of smoking almost a decade ago.????In 2004, the most recent year for which global statistics are available, 3.8 per cent of all deaths were attributable [...]
Indonesian cigarette firms will have to pay an additional 7 percent excise tax next year, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, as the government seeks to curb smoking in one of the world’s largest tobacco markets.
A new ministerial decree, which will come into effect on Feb 1, 2009, will adjust the retail price range for [...]
The World Health Organization released its 2008 World Cancer Report Tuesday, and the numbers show that developing countries that adopt increasingly Westernized lifestyles and tobacco use are catching up to developed nations in the number of cancer deaths annually.
By 2010 cancer will surpass heart disease, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis as the leading killer in the [...]
Cancer will surpass heart disease as the world’s number one killer by 2010, with poorer countries set to suffer most from the trend due to smoking, high-fat diets and other factors, international health experts warned Tuesday.
Some 12 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed this year and more than seven million people will die from [...]
Cancer is on pace to supplant heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death worldwide in 2010, with a growing burden in poor countries thanks to more cigarette smoking and other factors, global health experts said on Tuesday.
Globally, an estimated 12.4 million people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer this year and [...]
Despite the recent good news that cancer incidence and death rates for men and women in the United States continue to decline, cancer is projected to become the leading cause of death worldwide in the year 2010, and low- and middle-income countries will feel the impact of higher cancer incidence and death rates more sharply [...]
In a paper to be published in Nature Genetics on 2nd November, a worldwide consortium of investigators present a major breakthrough for understanding the genetic basis of lung cancer.
The results are based on the largest genetic study of lung cancer ever conducted, and was organised by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, Lyon, [...]
Tobacco use and the spread of Westernized lifestyles are the two main factors pushing up cancer death figures in developing countries globally, according to a new report issued by IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer). The Agency predicts that the total number of annual cancer deaths globally will double within the next twenty years.
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