100,000 Chinese die annually from passive smoking
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About 100,000 Chinese die annually from diseases associated with passive smoking while more than half a billion on the mainland suffer from the smoke exhaled from cigarettes, according to the Xinhua news agency.
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China accounts for about half of the  global annual death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese  taste for pickled and smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for  smoking, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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On smoggy days, deaths from heart and respiratory ailments and other diseases rise, causing several thousand more people throughout the United States to die each year, according to a study published Tuesday that links air pollution and mortality in 95
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No one should be exposed to passive smoking because of the serious health risks it poses, according to an expert committee of scientists, it emerged today.
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Some 1.6 million people, mainly small  children, die each year from a "kitchen killer" -- disease  brought on by inhaling smoke from cooking stoves and indoor  fires, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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The World Health Organization warned in a new report Thursday that the "tobacco epidemic" is growing and could claim 1 billion lives by the end of the century unless governments dramatically step up efforts to curb smoking.
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About 7.6 million people will die this year worldwide from various types of cancer, with lung cancer -- heavily driven by smoking -- killing 975,000 men and 376,000 women, the American Cancer Society said on Monday.
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China's deadly coal mines took nearly 3,800 lives in 2007, more than 20 percent fewer fatalities than the year before, the government and state press reported Sunday.
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One billion people will die of tobacco-related diseases this century unless governments in rich and poor countries alike get serious about preventing smoking, top World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Monday.
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Beijing - Visitors to the Zhengzhou Zoo in central China&#39;s Henan province who don&#39;t enjoy passive smoking - let alone being spat on - had better avoid the monkey cage.
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About 460,000 Chinese die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air and drinking dirty water, according to a World Bank study.
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China needs comprehensive laws to reduce the number of smokers or the habit could end up killing 2.2 million Chinese a year by 2020, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
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China&#39;s economic transformation is damaging the health of many of its people, with millions of urban professionals suffering from stress and the change to more fatty western diets.
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Smoking is bad for your health, but it was good for Hong Kong martial arts queen Yuen Qiu's acting career.
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SANDAOLING, China  - Dong Ye lights a cigarette  and doesn't give a second thought to fate -- his or his  country's -- as he steps off a dump truck onto the dirt road  that winds into the Sandaoling coal quarry.
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Luong Van Inh is among a neglected group of Asians threatened by an environmental hazard rarely considered: indoor air pollution. Caused by burning wood, coal or other cheap fuels in kitchens, it kills about 1.5 million people worldwide each year.
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Chinese cigarette packs will have skulls, blackened teeth or diseased lungs printed on them in the latest effort to tackle smoking, but one expert said the images may actually attract younger people to take up the habit.