deaths from smoking in the former yugoslav republic of macedonia
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Deaths from smoking
in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Deaths from smokingin the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Particular emphasis is given to the number of deathsin middle age (defined as ages 35 to 69)
• Available on www.deathsfromsmoking.net
• This presentation provides estimates of the numberof deaths caused by smoking in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Source of data: “Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries, 1950–2000”
• Uses WHO mortality data for lung cancer and for other diseases, and UN population data
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
• Updated edition of a 1994 book, authored by aninternational 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
Annual deaths from smoking
• About 1,000 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 20 years of life are lost, on average, by those killed in middle age by smoking
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
FYR Macedonia, year 2000
• Smoking kills about 2,000 people a year in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Smoking causes about three times as many deaths as all non-medical causes put together
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
FYR Macedonia, year 2000
728*non-medical
Murder / assault FallsSuicide DrowningRoad accidents PoisoningPlane crashes FiresTrain crashes Floods / stormsAccidents at work Other natural disastersAccidents at home Other accidents
*in year 2000
2,000smoking
Smoking kills 2,000 people a year,from many different diseases
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FYR Macedonia, year 2000
*includes 500 (83%) ofthe 599 lung cancer deaths
700 cancer*
800 vascular(heart disease,stroke and other diseases of the arteries and veins)
200 respiratory 300
other
3,000total cancer deaths
About one in four of all cancer deathsis due to smoking
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FYR Macedonia, year 2000
700 (23%)from smoking
1,800male
650 (36%)from smoking
1,200female
50 (4%)from smoking
Male deaths in middle age from smoking
• 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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FYR Macedonia, year 2000
• The main pattern of increase and, eventually,decrease in premature deaths from smoking is at a more advanced stage among men than among women
About one in three of all deaths inmiddle-aged men is due to smoking*
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
FYR Macedonia, year 2000
*1,300 (33%) of the4,000 deaths at ages 35-69
Of 100 men aged 35 years …
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FYR Macedonia, year 2000
*risks at year 2000death rates for ages 35-69
• 36 die in middle age*
36%
• 11 of these 36 deaths are from smoking
11
Summary for the whole population
• Smoking kills about 2,000 men and women every year
• About 1,000 die in middle age from smoking
• Smoking causes about three times as many deaths as all non-medical causes put together
• About one in four of all cancer deaths is due to smoking
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
FYR Macedonia, year 2000
In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
Messages for the individual smoker
• 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
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
• The risk is big: about half are killed
Deaths from smoking: an electronic resourcewww.deathsfromsmoking.netPublished by International Union Against Cancer (UICC), Geneva: Switzerland, 2006
Funded byClinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), University of OxfordInternational Union Against Cancer (UICC)Fogarty International Center, US NIHUK Medical Research CouncilCancer Research UK
Project team Richard Peto, Judith Watt, Jillian BorehamProject management Sinéad JonesAdvice and support Steve Woodward, Konrad Jamrozik, Lesley Walker, Trish CotterDesign bwa-design.co.uk