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Tobacco Trade, Use, and Control

Council on Scientific Affairs

JAMA. 1990;263(24):3312-3318.

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DURING the past two decades, use of tobacco has increased worldwide by almost 75%.¹ In 1986, an estimated 1 billion persons consumed more than 5 trillion cigarettes.² Globally, increasing tobacco use is responsible for almost 2.5 million excessive or premature deaths per year—almost 5% of all deaths.¹ International tobacco trade and antitobacco activities are of growing significance for the worldwide smoking epidemic. Activities to restrict the use of tobacco in the United States and Canada, as well as in countries in both Oceania and Western Europe, have produced a declining demand for tobacco and tobacco products in these areas of the world.³ To maintain and expand markets for their ongoing growth of tobacco leaf and manufactured tobacco products, multinational tobacco conglomerates in the United States, Great Britain, and West Germany, however, have responded by increasingly seeking favorable markets in countries where demand remains or has the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill.

Footnotes
This report was presented to the American Medical Association House of Delegates in June 1989 as Report B of the Council on Scientific Affairs. Action of the American Medical Association House of Delegates June 1989, Adopted.

This report is not intended to be construed or to serve as a standard of medical care. Standards of medical care are determined based on all of the facts and circumstances involved in an individual case and are subject to change as scientific knowledge and technology advance and patterns of practice evolve. This report reflects the views of scientific literature as of June 1989.

Reprint requests to Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association, 535 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610 (William R. Hendee, PhD).

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