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| | Premature Smoker Death Rates |
 | | This earlier death rate continues until the last age range, when few are left in each category alive (age 95), and the death rate approaches the expected 100% rate. |
 | | And, it had long been reported "that one half the deaths of men in that country [Germany] between eighteen and thirty-five years of age, are attributed, by their physicians, to smoking."—Wm. |
 | | Premature tobacco-caused deaths are noted as long ago as 1833: "Five thousand deaths in these United States every year, from the use of tobacco!"--Orin S. Fowler, Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco, and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation (Providence: S. Weeden, 1833), p 21. |
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