A new study suggests that by 2010, India’s death toll due to tobacco smoking will be about 1 million people a year (10 lakh in Indian counting system), taking the country’s smoking epidemic to catastrophic proportions. This figures will represent one fifth of deaths in men and one twentieth of deaths in women aged 30 to 69, with smoking causing deaths from tuberculosis, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

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