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Jump to full article: Angola Press (ao), 2006-03-03
Intro: More than one in ten deaths in Cyprus each year were caused by smoking, local press reported on Thursday.
The result was achieved by the Cyprus International Institute for the Environment and Public Health in association with the Harvard School of Public Health after a six-month study on smoking in Cyprus.
According to the statistics published in the report, 13 percent of the deceased or 650 deaths in Cyprus every year are smoking- related, which is six times greater than the deaths in road accidents.
Meanwhile, smoking consumed the country`s nearly 8 percent of health care costs every year.
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