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Deaths from smoking
in Canada
Deaths from smokingin Canada
• 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 Canada
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
Deaths from smoking, 1950 to 2000
• About half (633,000) of them were still in middle agewhen they died
• This was about one in four of all the deaths inmiddle age during this period 633,000 out ofthe 2.8 million deaths at ages 35-69)
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
Canada
• About 1.2 million people died from smoking during this50-year period in Canada
Annual deaths from smoking
• About 16,000 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 23 years of life are lost, on average, by those killed in middle age by smoking
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
Canada, year 2000
• Smoking kills about 44,000 people a year in Canada
Smoking causes about three times as many deaths as all non-medical causes put together
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
Canada, year 2000
13,249*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
44,000smoking
Smoking kills 44,000 people a year,from many different diseases
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
Canada, year 2000
*includes 14,000 (87%) ofthe 16,134 lung cancer deaths
20,000cancer*
10,000vascular(heart disease,stroke and other diseases of the arteries and veins)
8,000respiratory
6,000 other
63,000total cancer deaths
About one in three of all cancer deathsis due to smoking
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Canada, year 2000
20,000 (32%)from smoking
33,000male
13,000 (39%)from smoking
30,000female
7,000 (23%)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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• 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 four of all deaths inmiddle-aged men is due to smoking*
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Canada, year 2000
*10,000 (28%) of the36,000 deaths at ages 35-69
Of 100 men aged 35 years …
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Canada, year 2000
*risks at year 2000death rates for ages 35-69
• 22 die in middle age*
22%
• 6 of these 22 deaths are from smoking
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*risks at period-specificdeath rates for ages 35-69
Male death in middle age: changing hazards*
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Canada, 1950-2000
39%
All causes
38%
38%
38%
37%
36%
33%
27%
25%
22%
30%
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Smoking
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Summary for the whole population
• Smoking kills about 44,000 men and women every year
• About 16,000 die in middle age from smoking
• Smoking causes about three times as many deaths as all non-medical causes put together
• About one in three of all cancer deaths is due to smoking
www.deathsfromsmoking.net
Canada, year 2000
In Canada:
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
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• 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