[C-U Smokefree] Fwd: [JoeCherner-announce]Cancer Down in California as Smoking Rates Plummet

Wed Nov 19 02:12:45 CST 2003

Hi all--

I could not resist forwarding this message to you, epecially becasue of its 
policy and health information knowledge that local policy decision makers may 
want to know in the CU area.

Theo

Theo Tsoukalas, Ph.D.

theotskl at aol.com

In a message dated 11/18/03 9:18:07 PM, Joe at smokefree.org writes:

<< Cancer Down in California as Smoking Rates Plummet 

Lung cancer down 19.5%; Smoking rates down 27%

Parts excerpted from the Sacramento Bee, 11/18/03

SACRAMENTO -- Cancers caused by tobacco-- both first hand and secondhand-- 
have dropped dramatically in California in the past 12 years, a sign that the 
state's award-winning smokefree ad campaign and popular smokefree workplace law 
have had enormous health benefits, a new state report has found. 

The report by the state Department of Health Services found that between 1988 
and 1999, tobacco-caused cancers fell 12 percent among men and 8 percent 
among women in California.  Lung cancer, the disease most associated with smoking, 
fell 19.5 percent. 

"Seeing dramatic results like these is proof that what we have done here in 
California has worked," said Diana Bonta, state health director. "We are seeing 
the health benefits now." 

The results resulted from voter passage in 1988 of Proposition 99, which 
taxes tobacco products to pay for tobacco control programs. 

Bonta said sweeping smokefree workplace laws in California that eliminated 
smoking in most public places, restaurants, and bars are a large part of the 
success story. 

The newly released report looked at rates of nine types of cancer related to 
tobacco use, in various degrees. They include cancers of the lung, larynx, 
mouth, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, kidney, stomach and cervix. 

The most dramatic reduction in cancer rates in California showed up in lung 
cancers, the #1 cancer-killer of both men and women. Between 1988 and 1999, 
lung cancer rates in California dropped 19.5 percent, from 71.9 cases per 100,000 
people to 57.9 in 1999. 

California's cancer case rate in 1999 was more than 10 percent lower than in 
the rest of the United States. 

The report released last week also found that the program's benefits are 
unfortunately not enjoyed equally. Poor Californians and those with less education 
smoke far more than affluent people and those who are better educated.  

African Americans had the highest smoking rates in 2000 and are therefore 
most affected by tobacco-caused cancers. The mortality rate for tobacco-caused 
cancers is 30 percent higher for African American men than for white men and 20 
percent higher for African American women than among white women. 

Joseph W. Cherner

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