Five Million Smokers Died Worldwide in 2000 - Study
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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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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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By EMMA ROSS    MUNICH, Germany  -- More than half of European smokers who suffer a heart attack, bypass surgery or other serious heart problem are still smoking a year later, despite anti-smoking campaigns and doctors' advice to stop, a new study found.    Experts said the findings, presented Monday at Europe's largest medical conference, indicate that smoking cessation efforts are failing many of the most vulnerable victims...
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Nov. 29, 2004 (Chicago) -- Young or old, smoking is a killer and its weapon of choice is often lung cancer. But results from a lung cancer screening study of almost 30,000 current and former smokers suggests
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As many as five million deaths are caused by air pollution every year in India, the country's junior Environment and Forest Minister Namo Narayan Meena said.
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AT LEAST 10 per cent of the worldâs population over the age of 40 may have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The new statistics, released today for World COPD Day, suggest that
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One million people a year will die from tobacco smoking in India in the 2010s, research predicts.
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ONE in 12 children worldwide died before their fifth birthday, with half of all such deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations reported yesterday in its annual survey of infant mortality.
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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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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer cases and cancer deaths around the world, claiming 1.3 million lives each year.
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In the 43 years since the U.S. surgeon general warned of the dangers of cigarette smoking, the percentage of Americans who light up has been cut in half, tobacco companies have paid billions of dollars in legal settlements and smoking has come to be widely reviled as a nasty habit.
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23 September 2004 - Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year - more than any other cause - and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today as it published
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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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Aggressive efforts to curb smoking led to a sharp drop in the number of smokers in New York City in the past few years, U.S. health experts said on Thursday.
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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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OTTAWA - More Canadians are quitting smoking, but the number who eventually return to the habit has remained the same, according to a Statistics Canada study.
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U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a two-year downward trend, the American Cancer Society reported