Tobacco to Kill 1 Billion by 2100
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Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now the World Health Organization said
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The World Health Organization has warned that by 2020, heart disease and stroke will become the leading cause of both death and disability worldwide, with the number of fatalities projected to increase to over 20 million a year and by 2030 to over 24
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Rising tobacco use and poverty will fuel cancer across the developing world, more than doubling the number of new cases to 27 million by 2050, experts predicted on Thursday.
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Seven and a half million people worldwide died from cancer in 2005 and the number of cases in the Middle East is expected to soar over the next 15 years, Moroccan news agency MAP quoted the World Health Organization as saying.
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Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20  cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, scientists in New  Zealand have found, as they warned of an "epidemic" of lung  cancers linked to cannabis.
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Nov 18 (HeartCenterOnline) - Today is the day the American Cancer Society hopes millions of smokers will put down their cigarettes for good.
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A new study has found that chewing tobacco may be almost as effective as cigarettes in delivering nicotine and carcinogens.
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The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan was set to enforce a ban on all tobacco sales, a world first, official media reported.
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A sweeping new global report, released by the World Health Organization today in New York City, urges governments to get tough on the tobacco epidemic before it's too late
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The world may know that smoking is dangerous, but the world doesn't care, apparently. A WHO report says smoking is on the rise, mainly because enough work isn't being done to curb the addiction.
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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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Just one puff of a cigarette could damage a smoker's DNA, the first step to cancer and heart disease, researchers said on Friday.
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If current trends hold, tobacco will kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, public health officials said Monday.
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One billion people may die of tobacco-related illness this century, almost all of them in developing countries, the World Health Organization warned yesterday as it rolled out an unprecedented global campaign to limit the spread of smoking.
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Deaths from smoking continue to rise around the world, according to a new study in the November issue of Tobacco Control. Smoking was responsible for almost 5 million deaths worldwide in 2000, or about 12
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Smoking killed nearly 5 million people  worldwide in 2000, with men more than three times as likely as  women to go to an early grave, according to a study published  on Wednesday in the journal Tobacco Control.
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Each year, thousands of Americans die due to tobacco use and the American Cancer Society is sponsoring the 28th annual Great American Smokeout on Thursday to give all smokers and smokeless tobacco users the opportunity to quit.