The authors of the European Regional Bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that the doubling of excise duties to alcohol would prevent 5.4 percent of cancer cases in Russia, which are associated with alcohol consumption, and reduce the number of deaths from it 5 percent. This is reported by TASS with reference to a document published in The Lancet Medical Journal.
According to the study, in Russia you can prevent more than 1,400 cases of the disease, which is 5.4 percent of the total number of new cases of the disease and 725 deaths, which is 5 percent of the number of deaths from cancer.
It is reported that Russia is in second place among the states of the WHO European Region, which would benefit from doubling the excise. In the first place is the United Kingdom, where, according to WHO, it would be possible to prevent more than 1,800 cases of the disease (10.9 percent of the total number of cases of the disease) and 680 deaths (10.9 percent of the number of deaths from cancer).
Earlier, The Lancet published a study of the Imperial College of London and WHO, according to which over the past 30 years the number of people over 30, which suffer from arterial hypertension, has doubled and reached 1.28 billion people. The work was based on hypertensive data aged from 30 to 79 years from 184 countries.