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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The number of obese people in China doubled to 60 million in the 10 years to 2002 with diseases related to an unhealthy diet and lifestyle also on the rise.
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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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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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Industrial and road accidents killed 101,480 people in China last year, a drop of about 10 percent compared to 2006, the state's safety watchdog said in a report seen Sunday.
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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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One in 10 people keep their smoking habits from loved ones, doctors or employers, a survey suggests.
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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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As Northern Ireland prepares for a smoking ban, health officials launch a large-scale study of passive smoking.
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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.
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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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About 400,000 toddlers die every year  in China mainly because of a lack of medical care, a member of  a government advisory group said on Wednesday, urging greater  investment in the health system.
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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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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 Chinese government confirmed this weekend that it has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100m yuan since March, when it began its crackdown on violent or pornographic content, and other material it considers harmful to public
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Passive smoking massively increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease, an official report has confirmed. But ministers have sat on the explosive study amid fears it will lead to calls for an outright
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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.