Most smoking deaths in poor areas
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Smoking kills more than 1,600 people in England each week with blackspots in deprived areas, a study says.
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Children who live in polluted communities are five times more likely to have clinically low lung function - less than 80 percent of the lung function expected for their age.
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Findings of UN panel on global warming put African and Asian regions among those most at risk.
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Black children may be far more susceptible to the ill effects of second-hand tobacco smoke than their white counterparts, U.S. researchers said on 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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Tobacco could kill up to a billion people during the 21st century, the World Health Organization said.
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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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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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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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Sept. 8, 2004 -- Children who live in areas with the poorest air quality are five times as likely to have lung development problems as those breathing cleaner air, according to findings from the largest and
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Global efforts to avoid tens of millions of preventable deaths by reducing tobacco use 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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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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The horrific death toll from violence in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan has been revealed in a new epidemiological study of four areas in West Darfur.
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Undernutrition is to blame for 3.5 million deaths among children aged under five each year, but most of the fatalities occur in 20 countries, where targeted aid programmes could swiftly address the problem, researchers say.
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According to the American Cancer Society, smoking will cause about 30 percent of the 563,700 cancer deaths this year. The American Cancer Society also reports that
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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.
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MODERN lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on the health of urban city dwellers in China. A study by the Chinese Red Cross of 16 Chinese cities, each with more than 1 million people, found that 75 per cent of