European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 21, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 11big Rise in smoking deaths forecast smoking deaths predicted deaths attributed to smoking in developed countries 1950 to 2000/ in millions of deaths 35-69 years men 70years women source Quot mortality from smoking in developed countries 1950-2000�?T aps amps London apr deaths from cigarettes Are Likely to More than triple Over the next Quarter Century to 20 every minute around the world scientists warn the findings Are in a Book mortality from smoking in developed countries 1950-2000, published tuesday by scientists at Britain a Imperial cancer research fund the world health organization and the american cancer society. A worldwide smoking is already killing 3 million people each year and this num her is increasing a Richard Peto a researcher at the Imperial cancer research fund said monday. That translates to six people every minute he said and the worst is yet to come. A if current smoking patterns persist then by the time the Young smokers of today reach Middle or old age there will be about 10 million deaths a year from tobacco a one death every three seconds a Peto said. 7. The new Survey provides the most comprehensive analysis of the worlds smokers describing trends in smoking related deaths since the 1950s and forecasting deaths into the next Century. A previous study by the same authors two years ago covered the 1960s through the 1990s, the new Book covers 45 countries 15 More than the previous study. The additional nations Are from Eastern Europe and the former soviet Union. Sixty million deaths have been caused by smoking since the 1950s, the investigators estimate. They predict smoking will kill about 10 million people a year by 2020, the vast majority m developing countries where the habit continues to attract Young women. A smoking is like no other Hazard. It will Kilt one in two smokers eventually a said or. Alan Lopez of the world health organization a co author of the study. Investigators were unable to acquire smoking statistics from every country which would allow the most precise estimates. Instead they compared data on death rates from lung cancer among american nonsmokers to the lung cancer death rate in each country to get an estimate of the number of smokers in a nation. They used other data from the american cancer society to estimate How Many smokers would die of various other smoking related causes such As heart disease. The researchers used lung cancer rates As the yardstick a because in developed countries lung cancer is so closely related to smoking and so Seldom caused by any other Factor among  according to the report 10 percent of Middle age British men will die from smoking by the time they Are 35 to 69. In Poland 20 percent of men Are doomed to die from smoking the researchers pc dieted. In Spain where women began smoking in Large numbers in the 1970s, the lung cancer rate among women remains Low. But Peto said lung cancer is increasing and will kill millions of Spanish women in the next decades. A to said he hoped the Survey would encourage governments to enforce stringent Vartti smoke big policies such As raising cigarette prices. In addition to lung cancer smoking also increases the risk of cancer of the Mouth Larynx oesophagus kidney and bladder. Smokers Are also More Likely than nonsmokers to die of heart attacks and strokes. Judith Hatton a researcher at Forest a British organization for smokers rights called the statistics unreliable. The tobacco Institute in Washington declined to comment. On Washington a the Clinton administration has handed Over to the Fri threatening letters received by the labor department in response to its proposal to restrict smoking in the nations workplaces. A we got a few letters that were Over the line a Joe dear head of the occupational safety and health administration said monday. He said Osha a division of the labor department received an estimated 100,000 pieces of correspondence after proposing in March new regulations that would require employers to provide separately ventilated rooms for smokers or ban smoking altogether. Dear said the contents of 12 letters were considered threatening enough to Call in the Fri. Asked whether any of the letters contained death threats dear responded a we interpreted them that  he did not provide a text of any of the letters. The Agency was to begin protracted hearings on the proposed regulations tuesday. It could be several years before final rules Are  before has the government talked about such restrictions on smoking at work. Quot a a How to reach ust .72 that s How Little this space can Cost to advertise your Bazaar fest Marathon. You name it. 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