Table 1 Mortality burdens from tobacco and international terrorism in developed and East European countries
From: Policy lessons from comparing mortality from two global forces: international terrorism and tobacco
Country | Number of international terrorist attacks (1994–2003) | Number of international terrorism deaths (1994–2003)** | International terrorism deaths (per million population per year) (1994–2003) | Total deaths attributed to tobacco in year 2000 (estimated by Peto et al) | Ratio of tobacco deaths to annualized international terrorism deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Established market economies | |||||
Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18,600 | - |
Austria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8,900 | - |
Belgium | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18,600 | - |
Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44,800 | - |
Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11,600 | - |
Finland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,200 | - |
France | 7 | 19 | 0.032 | 64,900 | 34,158 |
Germany | 2 | 3 | 0.004 | 111,100 | 370,333 |
Greece | 3 | 3 | 0.027 | 13,400 | 44,667 |
Ireland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,700 | - |
Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80,700 | - |
Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 114,200 | - |
Netherlands | 1 | 6 | 0.037 | 25,700 | 42,833 |
New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,500 | - |
Norway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,600 | - |
Portugal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8,400 | - |
Spain | 1 | 1 | 0.002 | 46,400 | 464,000 |
Sweden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8,200 | - |
Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 0.014 | 6,800 | 68,000 |
United Kingdom | 3 | 32 | 0.054 | 114,000 | 35,625 |
United States | 2 | 2,970 | 1.020 | 514,000 | 1,731 |
Subtotal | 20 | 3,035 | 0.351 | 1,231,300 | 4,057 |
Former socialist economies of Europe* | |||||
Belarus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18,000 | - |
Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11,200 | - |
Croatia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8,000 | - |
Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17,900 | - |
Estonia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,700 | - |
Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28,700 | - |
Latvia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,100 | - |
Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,700 | - |
Macedonia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,000 | - |
Poland | 1 | 1 | 0.003 | 68,700 | 687,000 |
Romania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31,900 | - |
Russia | 7 | 256 | 0.178 | 330,000 | 12,891 |
Serbia & Montenegro | 3 | 6 | 0.057 | 17,800 | 29,667 |
Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8,100 | - |
Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,900 | - |
Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99,100 | - |
Subtotal | 11 | 263 | 0.081 | 655,800 | 24,935 |
Total (all selected countries) | 31 | 3,298 | 0.278 | 1,887,100 | 5,722 |