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To the Editor: The two-part article by Bartecchi and colleagues (March 31 and April 7 issues)^1,2 describes different aspects of tobacco use. However, there is an important issue that was not discussed. Although cigarette smoking remains an important problem in the United States and other developed countries, the number of smokers in the Third World has increased dramatically over the past few years.

The annual number of deaths attributable to cigarettes will quadruple by 2030, and the bulk of these deaths will be in developing countries³. In China, 50 million of the children alive today will die from smoking⁴. . . [Full Text of this Article]

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