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Mortality burdens from tobacco and international terrorism in developed and East European countries |
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| 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 |
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| Established market economies |
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| 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 |
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| Subtotal |
20 |
3,035 |
0.351 |
1,231,300 |
4,057 |
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| Former socialist economies of Europe* |
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| 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 |
- |
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| Subtotal |
11 |
263 |
0.081 |
655,800 |
24,935 |
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| Total (all selected countries) |
31 |
3,298 |
0.278 |
1,887,100 |
5,722 |
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* 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 |
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