Smoking could kill 1 billion this century: WHO
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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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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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China needs comprehensive laws to reduce the number of smokers or the habit could end up killing 2.2 million Chinese a year by 2020, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
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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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The basic medical warning about the dangers of smoking is especially important for anyone with a relative, however distant, who has had lung cancer, a new Icelandic study shows.
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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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Smoking not only damages health, it is bad for the brain too, according to a Scottish study spanning nearly 60 years.
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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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An estimated 1.6 million deaths a year are attributed to toxic indoor air. A new clean-burning wood stove could help decrease that number.
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Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20  cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, scientists in New  Zealand have found, as they warned of an "epidemic" of lung  cancers linked to cannabis.
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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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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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Nicotine is addictive. There is no safe cigarette. Smoking damages every organ in the body. These messages appear almost daily, and yet tobacco use continues to be the leading preventable cause of death in
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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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The U.S. isn't the only country cutting back on public smoking
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The world may know that smoking is dangerous, but the world doesn't care, apparently. A WHO report says smoking is on the rise, mainly because enough work isn't being done to curb the addiction.
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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.