ENVIRONMENT UPDATES
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World Watch Institute

World Watch Institute provides research and commentary on a broad range of issues we all need to be aware of and concerned about. I encourage SCI visitors to become a supporter of the World Watch Institute's work if at all possible. This page presents a selection of statistics on our quality of life provided at the end of each issue of World Watch Matazine. You can reach the Institute's website via this link.

• Deaths from cigarette smoking, per year, in the United States = 430,700
• Deaths from obesity, per year, in the United States = 300,000
• Deaths from alcohol abuse, per year, in the United States = 110,000
• Amount spent on marketing by U.S. drug companies in 1999 = $14 billion
• Amount spent on research and development by U.S. drug companies in 1999 = $19 billion
• Amount spent by U.S. government on war in Afghanistan = $2.5 billion and climbing
• Amount spent by U.S. government on humanitarian aid in Afghanistan = $320 million
• Average working vocabulary of a 14-year old in the U.S. in 1950 = 25,000 words (in 1999, just 10,000 words)

• Deaths from obesity, per year, in the United Kingdom = 30,000
• Deaths from civil war in the Sudan = 2,000,000
• Deaths from Khmer rouge massacres in Cambodia, 1981-82 = 1,700,000
• Amount of debt owed by world's 47 poorest nations in 2001 = $422 billion
• Amount paid each week by African countries on debt service = $200 million
• Deaths in refugee camps in Africa, per day in 1999 due to conditions = 6,000
• Amount of official development assistance provided to India, per person, in 1996 = $2 (versus $423 to Israel)

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