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The 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health

Building capacity for a tobacco-free world

July 12-15, 2006, Washington, DC, USA



Thursday, July 13, 2006: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Meeting Room 5 (Renaissance Hotel)
The Risk of Tobacco: Global and Regional Estimates
Moderator:Michael P. Eriksen (USA)
1:30 PMThe Burden of the Lung Cancer in Kazakstan
Dzhamilya Z. Sadykova (Kazakhstan)
1:45 PMSmoking and Its Association with Cataract: Results of the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study from India
Krishnaiah Sannapaneni (India)
2:00 PMTobacco Tragedy - deaths from tobacco by geographic regions
Jane E. Martin (Australia)
2:15 PMThe Burden of Tobacco Use in the Twenty-first Century
Michael P. Eriksen (USA), Stacey L. Martin (USA)
2:30 PMEstimating the Burden of Lung Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease from Active and Passive Smoking in China
Quan Gan (USA), S. Katharine Hammond (USA), Kirk R. Smith (USA), Teh-wei Hu (USA)
2:45 PMTobacco attributable deaths in South Africa
Freddy Sitas (Australia), Margaret Irene Urban (South Africa), Debbie Bradshaw (South Africa), Danuta Kielkowski (South Africa), Sulaiman Bah (South Africa), Richard Peto

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