Deaths from smoking

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Deaths from smoking
in the United Kingdom
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Deaths from smokingin the United Kingdom
This presentation provides estimates of the
number of deaths caused by smoking in the United
Kingdom

• Particular emphasis is given to the number of
  deathsin middle age (defined as ages 35 to 69)
• Available on www.deathsfromsmoking.net

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Source of data Mortality from Smoking in
Developed Countries, 19502000
Updated edition of a 1994 book, authored by
an international team of scientists Richard
Peto, Professor of Medical Statistics, University
of Oxford Alan Lopez, Professor of Medical
Statistics, University of Queensland Jillian
Boreham, Senior Research Fellow, University of
Oxford Michael Thun, Chief of Epidemiology,
American Cancer Society

• Uses WHO mortality data for lung cancer and for
  other diseases, and UN population data

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Deaths from smoking, 1950 to 2000
United Kingdom
About 6.3 million people died from smoking
during this 50-year period in the United Kingdom

• About half (3.2 million) of them were still in
  middle agewhen they died
• This was about one in three of all the deaths
  inmiddle age during this period (3.2 million out
  ofthe 10.3 million deaths at ages 35-69)

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Annual deaths from smoking
United Kingdom, year 2000
Smoking kills about 115,000 people a year in
the United Kingdom

• About 32,000 die in middle age from smoking
• Many of those killed in middle age would have
  lived on for 10, 20, 30 or more good years
• About 21 years of life are lost, on average, by
  those killed in middle age by smoking

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Smoking causes about six times as many deaths as
all non-medical causes put together
United Kingdom, year 2000
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Smoking kills 115,000 people a year,from many
different diseases
United Kingdom, year 2000
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About one in four of all cancer deathsis due to
smoking
United Kingdom, year 2000
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Male deaths in middle age from smoking
The main pattern of increase and,
eventually, decrease in premature deaths from
smoking is at a more advanced stage among men
than among women

• This pattern is seen first in middle age, then in
  old age
• The next three slides concentrate on male
  deathsin middle age

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About one in four of all deaths inmiddle-aged
men is due to smoking
United Kingdom, year 2000

• 21,000 (25) of the83,000 deaths at ages 35-69

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Of 100 men aged 35 years
United Kingdom, year 2000
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Male death in middle age changing hazards
United Kingdom, 1950-2000
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Summary for the whole population
United Kingdom, year 2000
In the United Kingdom

• Smoking kills about 115,000 men and women every
  year
• About 32,000 die in middle age from smoking
• Smoking causes about six times as many deaths as
  all non-medical causes put together
• About one in four of all cancer deaths is due to
  smoking

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Messages for the individual smoker
The risk is big about half are killed

• Those killed in middle age lose many years
• Stopping smoking works
• Even in early middle age, those who stop (before
  they have lung cancer or some other fatal
  disease) avoid most of their risk of being killed
  by tobacco
• Stopping before middle age works even better

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• Deaths from smoking an electronic resource
• www.deathsfromsmoking.net
• Published by
• International Union Against Cancer (UICC),
  Geneva Switzerland, 2006
• Funded by
• Clinical Trial Service Unit Epidemiological
  Studies Unit (CTSU), University of Oxford
• International Union Against Cancer (UICC)
• Fogarty International Center, US NIH
• UK Medical Research Council
• Cancer Research UK
• Project team Richard Peto, Judith Watt, Jillian
  Boreham
• Project management Sinéad Jones
• Advice and support Steve Woodward, Konrad
  Jamrozik, Lesley Walker, Trish Cotter
• Design bwa-design.co.uk