Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization

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''The Global Perspective: A New Opium War''
by Dr. Judith M. Mackay, San Francisco's Forum On Global Tobacco Control Policies
May 19th, 1997

1. Why we need to address tobacco control from a global perspective

Reducing tobacco use in the USA -- a country with only 4% of the world's smokers -- will not solve the global tobacco epidemic. As cigarette consumption in the US has fallen from 624 billion in 1982 to 472 billion in 1996,[1] output has increased and US to bacco exports have risen from 85 to 250 billions over the same period.[1] American (and British) tobacco companies are now flooding the globe with tobacco products."