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Georgina
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Date Posted: 21:32:05 04/07/04 Wed
Hi Brady and thank you for getting back to me here. I apologize that your original post got deleted (my mistake, sorry) so I have re-posted your question.
The information I was able to get is for North America only(which is the reference point for the numbers mentioned). According to Health Canada and the figures from the CDC (Centre for Disease Control in the U.S.) the approximate figure for smoking-related deaths is 500,000 annually (some consider this conservative but I prefer to err on the side of understatement rather than exaggeration).
That means 1,369 smokers die every day from tobacco related disease which is approximately one-half of the 3,000 daily figure for replacement smokers we talked about. Bear in mind this does not take into account relapse for those who quit smoking and other regional variances.
Some people your age have worked hard to raise awareness about tobacco deaths. If you click here (bottom of page 2) to see one way they have addressed the number of daily tobacco deaths in the U.S. with an equivalent number of body bags dumped outside of the world's largest tobacco company's head office (the numbers do not include Canadians).
"Truckloads of teens pull up outsidethe headquarters of a major tobacco company. They unload heavy body bags from the backs of the trucks, and pile themon the sidewalk outside the building. By the end of the spot,the teens have piled up 1,200 body bags representative of thenow more than 1,200 people who die every day from smoking-related illness.Our strategy is working.
The American Journal of Public Health study cited above shows that in the truth campaign’s first 10 months, its ads have made 12- to 17-year-old kids’attitudes toward tobacco more negative, reducing their future likelihood of smoking. Those 12- to 17-year-olds exposed to truth were more likely to want to join the fight to end smoking, more likely to agree that taking a stand against smoking is important, more likely to agree that the tobacco industry had lied and hidden the truth about the health effects of tobacco, and more likely to agree that cigarettecompanies try to get young people to start smoking."
I hope that answers your question; if not, let me know. Thank you very much for asking.
If you are interested Click Here for the excellent site for these savvy and active young people working to raise awareness about tobacco.
Georgina
>What is the ratio of quit\die each year???¿¿¿
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