No More Tobacco

One Million Tobacco Deaths A Year In India During The 2010s… Medical News Today reported Friday that 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. The research, a collaboration between India, Canada and the UK, is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study found that, among men, about 61 percent of those who smoke can expect to die at ages 30-69 compared with only 41 percent of otherwise similar non-smokers. Among women, 62 percent of those who smoke can expect to die at ages 30-69 compared with only 38 percent of non-smokers. This means that smoking accounts for most of the difference in premature deaths between men and women in India. view source