Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer Mike Stobbe, Ap Medical Writer – Tue Dec 9, 5:43 pm ET
ATLANTA – Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts said in a report released Tuesday. Rising tobacco use in developing countries is believed to be a huge reason for the shift, particularly in China and India, where 40 percent of the world's smokers now live......
"Few are aware that cancer already kills more people in poor countries than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined. And if current smoking trends continue, the problem will get significantly worse," he said in a written statement.
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What the article leaves out is that this death is being exported by US firms. Tobacco companies even target children there, giving away free samples.
For a time I wondered how Phillip-Morris et al could be making records profits the past few years with the climate the way it is in the US.
This is how.