Smoking kills nearly a million Indians a year
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Smoking is killing nearly a million people a year in India, exacting a higher toll than previously thought, but allied problems are often different to those seen in the West, according to research published on Thursday.
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MORBI, India -- Meet the men and women building the new India. Chakubhai Khabhu, old and lean, smoking a thin, hand-rolled cigarette, stands on top of a pile of bricks his children have made with their hands. His daughter, Vanita, 20, tosses bricks to her brothers, two by two, in a seamless human chain. One of his sons' wives takes ...
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Cigarette smoking causes approximately 440,000 deaths annually in the United States (1). To assess the prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adults, CDC analyzed data from the 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey.
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Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill 1 billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday.
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People under 40 are five times more likely to have a heart attack if they smoke, a study shows.
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Smoking not only damages health, it is  bad for the brain too, according to a Scottish study spanning  nearly 60 years.
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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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Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday.
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Alcohol causes almost as many deaths and disabilities globally as smoking and high blood pressure, a study says.
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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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More Americans than ever before are surviving cancer and rates in general are falling, mostly because fewer people are smoking, the American Cancer Society reported on Wednesday.
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World Health Organisation urges governments to act now to dramatically reduce tobacco use
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NEW YORK -- Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday.
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LONDON: Smoking killed nearly five 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 yesterday in the journal Tobacco Control.
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India is in the grips of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, more than half of them among poor and illiterate people, according to a study released Thursday.
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China, home to one in three of the world's smokers, is set to see a huge rise in its health care costs as a lack of education and the government's vested interests frustrate prevention efforts, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned.
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Despite the scary statistics about cancer and death, and the disgusting realities of yellow teeth and bad breath, there are still 46 million people in the United States who smoke.