Five million die from smoking
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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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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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Over eight million smokers are being asked to quit &quot;cold turkey.&quot; It is part of the American Cancer Society&#39;s 28th Annual Great American Smoke-Out.
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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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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 World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
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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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An anti-smoking guru who has helped millions of smokers to kick the habit has died from lung cancer.
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The European Commission launches graphic images showing the damage smoking can do to people's health.
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Almost 3,000 people have died in the past three years after suffering serious side-effects or allergies to their medicines, official figures show.
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By PHIL MULKINS Action Line  Dear Action Line:   Some fire deaths are attributed to "smoke inhalation." People breathe wood smoke all the time without harm. It makes people think it's OK to go back into burning buildings. -- R.W., Tulsa.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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Water-pipe smoking may pose the same health risks as cigarettes, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that more scientific research was needed into the link between hookah use and a number of fatal illnesses.
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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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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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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, mostly from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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People under 40 are five times more likely to have a heart attack if they smoke, a study shows. The international team of researchers said their findings put paid to the idea that only older smokers were at risk of heart disease.
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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.