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| WHO Global Report on Mortality Attributable to Tobacco |
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| Nonserial Publications |
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ISBN-13
9789241564434
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ISBN-10
9241564431
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Order Number
11500838
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Price
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50.00
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US$
60.00
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Developing countries:
CHF
35.00
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English
2011
358
pages
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| Summary |
EXPECTED END MARCH
This report provides information that will assist countries assess the mortality outcomes of tobacco use as well as efforts to control the tobacco epidemic in their populations.
The information provided in this report is an extension of the global level information provided in the 2008 WHO report entitled "Global Health Risks: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks". Using mortality data for 2004, that report estimated that over five million people die each year from a cause that can be attributed to tobacco. Following the release of that report, some Member States requested WHO to consider generating estimates that could provide them with an indication of progress in their quest to counter the tobacco epidemic. This report provides for the first time estimates on the mortality attributable to tobacco for both high income as well for low and middle income countries for 2004, the year preceding the entry into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
The report covers the mortality effects of direct use of smoking and smokeless tobacco among adults aged 30 years and over. It provides information on mortality from both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Although many people associate tobacco with non-communicable diseases such as cancers, heart and respiratory diseases, tobacco is also a major cause of death for communicable diseases - tuberculosis being a case in point where the disease is at times in a latent or dormant state until activated by tobacco use, triggering significant ill-health, disability and death.
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