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A new American Cancer Society report says cancers associated with lifestyles and behaviors related to economic development, including lung, breast, and colorectal cancers, will continue to rise in developing countries if preventive measures are not widely applied. The finding comes from the second edition of Global Cancer Facts & Figures and its academic publication, Global Cancer Statistics, published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Both publications were released on World Cancer Day, Feb. 4, 2011. The latest edition of Global Cancer Facts & Figures includes a special section on cancer in Africa, where according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) about 681,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 new cancer cases and 512,400 cancer deaths occurred in 2008,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], numbers that are projected to nearly double by 2030 due to growth and aging of the population.
According to estimates from IARC, there were approximately 12.7 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2008, 5.6 million of which occurred in economically developed countries and 7.1 million in economically developing countries. There were approximately 7.6 million cancer deaths worldwide in 2008, 2.8 million of which occurred in economically developed countries and 4.8 million in economically developing countries. By 2030, the global cancer burden is expected to nearly double,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], growing to 21.4 million cases and 13.2 million deaths.
And while that increase is the result of demographic changes ?C a growing and aging population ?C it may be compounded by the adoption of unhealthy lifestyles and behaviors related to economic development, such as smoking, poor diet, and physical inactivity. On one hand, as a liberal, I embrace the purpose behind the ban. I respect science-based public policy, and want action that promotes the public good.
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Drinking Liberally isn't about the alcohol you are welcome drink water or coffee, juice or soda but about the social community that forms around talking politics (and I should note that plenty of conservatives attend). But we do meet in bars despite the evidence that alcohol consumption has a potentially deleterious effect on personal health and alcohol abuse is extremely destructive to society. We have our vices. Shouldn't smokers be allowed to have theirs?
Even through a recession in which other tax revenues have ebbed for the state,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], about $700 million or more each year continues to flow into the state Treasury from New Jersey's $2.70-per-pack tax on cigarettes the sixth-highest cigarette tax in the nation. There is legislation on the books that called for millions to be spent on anti-smoking and smoking cessation programs from this pot, but there are no dictates about how money is spent in the state budgets that are passed each June.
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Then there's the landmark settlement the big tobacco-makers agreed to with state attorneys general in 1998 to put an end to all the Medicaid reimbursement lawsuits the companies were facing. Since New Jersey started receiving payments from this settlement in 2000, it has received no less than $220 million a year and as much as $405 million.