India facing smoking death crisis
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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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Global anti-tobacco efforts aimed at avoiding tens of millions of preventable deaths have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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There has been a 20% rise in people using stop smoking services and a top medic urges others to follow suit.
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The World Health Organization called on Tuesday for a global ban on smoking at work and in enclosed public places.
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Health Secretary John Reid said to day that it is needed a range of measures to make people give up smoking, it is not enough just to ban.
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An anti-smoking guru who has helped millions of smokers to kick the habit has died from lung cancer.
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Yasser Arafat's latest health crisis &#151; a severe flu, gallstones, a battery of cancer tests &#151; has exposed how unprepared the Palestinians are for their leader's death, making a chaotic transition period all but inevitable.
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Ministers could be facing legal challenges over Holyrood's proposed smoking ban.
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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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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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Health secretary John Reid will today face universal condemnation from doctors and health professionals for failing to adopt the one public health measure in his white paper they say would save more lives than any other - a total smoking ban in enclosed
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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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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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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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Pictures of a corpse and mouth  cancers will be displayed on cigarette packets in India from  June in a bid to shock people into stopping smoking, health  officials said on Tuesday.
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European governments urgently need to spend more money on combating smoking, a continent-wide study of anti-smoking policies said on Tuesday.