Deaths from smoking in Japan Deaths from smoking
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Deaths from smoking in Japan
Deaths from smoking in Japan • This presentation provides estimates of the number of deaths caused by smoking in Japan • Particular emphasis is given to the number of deaths in middle age (defined as ages 35 to 69) • Available on www. deathsfromsmoking. net
Source of data: “Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries, 1950– 2000” • Updated edition of a 1994 book, authored by an international 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 • Uses WHO mortality data for lung cancer and for other diseases, and UN population data www. deathsfromsmoking. net
Japan Deaths from smoking, 1950 to 2000 • About 2. 5 million people died from smoking during this 50 -year period in Japan • About 40% (1 million) of them were still in middle age when they died • This was about one in fourteen of all the deaths in middle age during this period (1 million out of the 13. 4 million deaths at ages 35 -69) www. deathsfromsmoking. net
Japan, year 2000 Annual deaths from smoking • Smoking kills about 113, 000 people a year in Japan • About 33, 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 22 years of life are lost, on average, by those killed in middle age by smoking www. deathsfromsmoking. net
Japan, year 2000 Smoking causes more deaths than all non-medical causes put together 113, 000 smoking 73, 805* non-medical Murder / assault Suicide Road accidents Plane crashes Train crashes Accidents at work Accidents at home *in year 2000 www. deathsfromsmoking. net Falls Drowning Poisoning Fires Floods / storms Other natural disasters Other accidents
Japan, year 2000 Smoking kills 113, 000 people a year, from many different diseases 21, 000 vascular 62, 000 cancer* (heart disease, stroke and other diseases of the arteries and veins) 10, 000 other 20, 000 respiratory www. deathsfromsmoking. net *includes 42, 000 (78%) of the 53, 724 lung cancer deaths
Japan, year 2000 About one in five of all cancer deaths is due to smoking 62, 000 (21%) from smoking 52, 000 (29%) from smoking 10, 000 (9%) 116, 000 from smoking female www. deathsfromsmoking. net 295, 000 total cancer deaths 179, 000 male
Male deaths in middle age from smoking • The main pattern of increase and, eventually, decrease in premature deaths from smoking is at a more advanced stage among men than among women • This pattern is seen first in middle age, then in old age • The next three slides concentrate on male deaths in middle age www. deathsfromsmoking. net
Japan, year 2000 About one in six of all deaths in middle-aged men is due to smoking* www. deathsfromsmoking. net *29, 000 (16%) of the 184, 000 deaths at ages 35 -69
Japan, year 2000 Of 100 men aged 35 years … • 21 die in middle age* • 3 of these 21 deaths are from smoking 3 21% www. deathsfromsmoking. net *risks at year 2000 death rates for ages 35 -69
Japan, 1950 -2000 Male death in middle age: changing hazards* Smoking 1950 1955 1960 1965 All causes 50% <1 1 43% 42% 2 3 40% 1970 4 1975 4 1980 1985 4 4 1990 4 23% 1995 4 3 23% 2000 36% 31% 28% 25% 21% www. deathsfromsmoking. net *risks at period-specific death rates for ages 35 -69
Japan, year 2000 Summary for the whole population In Japan: • Smoking kills about 113, 000 men and women every year • About 33, 000 die in middle age from smoking • Smoking causes more deaths than all non-medical causes put together • About one in five of all cancer deaths is due to smoking www. deathsfromsmoking. net
Messages for the individual smoker • The risk is big: about half are killed • 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
Deaths from smoking: an electronic resource www. deathsfromsmoking. net Published by International Union Against Cancer (UICC), Geneva: Switzerland, 2006 Funded by Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), University of Oxford International Union Against Cancer (UICC) Fogarty International Center, US NIH UK Medical Research Council Cancer Research UK Project team Project management Advice and support Design Richard Peto, Judith Watt, Jillian Boreham Sinéad Jones Steve Woodward, Konrad Jamrozik, Lesley Walker, Trish Cotter bwa-design. co. uk
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