Table 1

Mortality burdens from tobacco and international terrorism in developed and East European countries

Country
Number of international terrorist attacks (1994–2003)
Number of international terrorism deaths (1994–2003)**
International terrorism deaths (per million population per year) (1994–2003)
Total deaths attributed to tobacco in year 2000 (estimated by Peto et al)
Ratio of tobacco deaths to annualized international terrorism deaths

Established market economies
Australia
0
0
0
18,600
-
Austria
0
0
0
8,900
-
Belgium
0
0
0
18,600
-
Canada
0
0
0
44,800
-
Denmark
0
0
0
11,600
-
Finland
0
0
0
5,200
-
France
7
19
0.032
64,900
34,158
Germany
2
3
0.004
111,100
370,333
Greece
3
3
0.027
13,400
44,667
Ireland
0
0
0
5,700
-
Italy
0
0
0
80,700
-
Japan
0
0
0
114,200
-
Netherlands
1
6
0.037
25,700
42,833
New Zealand
0
0
0
4,500
-
Norway
0
0
0
5,600
-
Portugal
0
0
0
8,400
-
Spain
1
1
0.002
46,400
464,000
Sweden
0
0
0
8,200
-
Switzerland
1
1
0.014
6,800
68,000
United Kingdom
3
32
0.054
114,000
35,625
United States
2
2,970
1.020
514,000
1,731

Subtotal
20
3,035
0.351
1,231,300
4,057

Former socialist economies of Europe*
Belarus
0
0
0
18,000
-
Bulgaria
0
0
0
11,200
-
Croatia
0
0
0
8,000
-
Czech Republic
0
0
0
17,900
-
Estonia
0
0
0
2,700
-
Hungary
0
0
0
28,700
-
Latvia
0
0
0
4,100
-
Lithuania
0
0
0
4,700
-
Macedonia
0
0
0
2,000
-
Poland
1
1
0.003
68,700
687,000
Romania
0
0
0
31,900
-
Russia
7
256
0.178
330,000
12,891
Serbia & Montenegro
3
6
0.057
17,800
29,667
Slovakia
0
0
0
8,100
-
Slovenia
0
0
0
2,900
-
Ukraine
0
0
0
99,100
-

Subtotal
11
263
0.081
655,800
24,935

Total (all selected countries)
31
3,298
0.278
1,887,100
5,722

* Excluding Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina for which tobacco-related mortality burdens were not available. Moldova was not included in the WHO report from which this grouping comes.

** Excluding the deaths of perpetrators.

Thomson and Wilson Globalization and Health 2005 1:18   doi:10.1186/1744-8603-1-18