Creating a generation of people who never smoke could prevent 1.2 million deaths from lung cancer globally. Banning tobacco products for people born in 2006-2010 could prevent almost half (45.8%) of future lung cancer deaths in men, and around a third (30.9%) in women in 185 countries by 2095.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/banning-tobacco-sales-for-young-people-could-prevent-1-2-million-lung-cancer-deaths
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(24)00185-3/fulltext
From the linked article:
Creating a generation of people who never smoke could prevent 1.2 million deaths from lung cancer globally, according to international researchers. The simulation study using historical data on 82 countries including Australia and New Zealand suggests banning the purchase of cigarettes and other tobacco products among people born between 2006 and 2010 could prevent almost half (45.8%) of future lung cancer deaths in men, and around a third (30.9%) in women in 185 countries by 2095.
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Banning drugs will work this time.
My grandmother died of lung cancer from smoking when I was 8. All I remember of her was her laying in bed hacking and coughing and wheezing and coughing up crap while us kids played in the living room, trying to not hear it.
I don’t support smoking, but the hypocrisy of politics who keep inventing new ways of saying “we want to make laws for other people, not ourselves” is just so annoying.
Hmm hello from Australia where it’s banned from smoking in public places. Cigarettes have horrible pictures of diseases caused by smoking on the packs and are not advertised at all. Also massive funding towards quit campaigns
Cut smoking dramatically.
Great, now ban junk food.
figuring out exactly how tobacco causes cancer and genetically modifying it not to can also work.
the ‘added chemicals’ in tobacco are the real killers.
**Simulation/modelling:**Â This type of study uses a computer simulation or mathematical model to predict an outcome
in other words: we put in what we want to get the outcome we want. Proudly brought to you by Big Oil.
Using the taxes they put onto cigarettes because “so dangerous” to actually do some medical research and try to help people instead of trying to be a mommy that scolds their kids for not behaving like mommy wants, we could save a lot more people…
Always starting at problem # 9,582, because problems #1 to #9580 would require corporations to suffer decreased profits, so they can’t possibly be solved.
It would also cuts back on public healthcare spending as well. A fat chunk of spending is going to Boomers and Gen X tabacco users. (I heard a stat years (decade) ago, in high school, that it was 9% of all healthcare spending was directly tied to tabacco. Which, when you’re spending billions, 9% is alot for a single cause.)