Tobacco will kill a billion people this century

Tobacco-related deaths have almost tripled in the last decade to almost 50m.

Tobacco will kill a  billion people this century

A report warns if current trends continue, 1bn people will die from tobacco use and exposure this century — one person every six seconds.

The fourth edition of the Tobacco Atlas, unveiled yesterday by the World Lung Foundation and American Cancer Society, graphically details the scale of the tobacco epidemic.

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