One Million Tobacco Deaths A Year In India During The 2010s
India is caught in the midst of a catastrophic smoking epidemic, which is causing one in five of all male deaths in middle age and will cause about one million deaths a year during the 2010s. Seventy percent of these deaths (600,000 male and 100,000 female) will be between the ages of 30 and 69. The findings are from the first nationally representative study of smoking in India as a whole.
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Filed under: Smoking / Quit Smoking on February 26th, 2008