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ACS Activities at Global Tobacco Control Conference in Mumbai: Oxford Health Alliance video

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The first part of this video, produced for the American Cancer Society by the Oxford Health Alliance, shows two of the programs in which the American Cancer Society was involved at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (WCTOH), held in Mumbai, India, in March 2009. The first program shown...

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Because there is a lag of several years between when people start using tobacco and when their health suffers, the epidemic of disease and death (as it appears today) has just begun in this world. Millions are going to die due to tobacco.

  • 100 million deaths were caused by tobacco in the 20th century. If current trends continue, there will be up to one billion deaths in the 21st century.

  • Unchecked, tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight million a year by 2030, and 80% of those deaths will occur in the developing world.

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