India: Smoking Major Vector For TB Deaths

Following the World Health Organisations, warning that tuberculosis killed 1.7 million people in India and China in 2006, anti-tobacco campaigners claim that smoking was the main factor causing the spread of TB and death from the disease. Dr. P C Gupta of Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, said, “Smokers have an increased risk of contracting TB and suffer much worse symptoms. In India smoking is responsible for the spread of TB and kills more people than lung cancer.

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Filed under: Smoking / Quit Smoking on April 2nd, 2008