American Cancer Society Response to LANCET Article on WorldwideAmerican Cancer Society The Sept. 13 issue of THE LANCET includes a study that finds tobacco is an increasingly important cause of global mortality. Below is a statement from John R. Seffrin, PhD, president of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and national CEO of the American Cancer Society. "This study is the first to quantify that the 21st century's "brown plague" is striking the world's middle- and low-income countries with an intensity equal to that which has already been felt in the world's high-income nations and is, in fact, on the verge of surpassing it. Without immediate worldwide action - most notably, strong support for the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - we can expect tobacco's death toll to nearly triple in the developing world over the next 20 years, killing in numbers that will rival any other world epidemic in human history."
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