Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Policy lessons from comparing mortality from two global forces: international terrorism and tobacco | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Research Open Access Policy lessons from comparing mortality from two global forces international terrorism and tobacco George Thomson and Nick Wilson Address Department of Public Health Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Otago PO Box 7343 Wellington South New Zealand Email GeorgeThomson - gthomson@ NickWilson - nwilson@ Corresponding author Published 15 December 2005 Received 23 August 2005 AAI- I m J_. I rnz n . I in Accepted 15 December 2005 Globalization and Health 2005 1 18 doi 1744-8603-1-18 r This article is available from http content 1 1 18 2005 Thomson and Wilson licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The aim of this study was to compare the mortality burdens from two global impacts on mortality international terrorism and the major cause of preventable death in developed countries - tobacco use. We also sought to examine the similarities and differences between these two causes of mortality so as to better inform the policy responses directed at prevention. Methods Data on deaths from international terrorism were obtained from a US State Department database for 1994-2003. Estimates for tobacco-attributable deaths were based on Peto et al 2003. The countries were 37 developed and East European countries. Results and discussion The collective annualized mortality burden from tobacco was approximately 5700 times that of international terrorism. The ratio of annual tobacco to international terrorism deaths was lowest for the United States at 1700 times followed by Russia at 12 900 times. The tobacco death burden in all these countries was equivalent to the .
