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• Tobacco kills 16,000 Nepalese each year  

Every year about 16,000 people in Nepal die due to smoking and consumption of tobacco. Fifty-five per cent Nepalese use tobacco related things, among them 48 per cent are over 15 years, said a report provided by Child Working in Nepal Concern Centre (CWIN). Of the total tobacco-related deaths 85 per cent are due to lung cancer.

Speakers at an interaction programme on Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) with regard to children organised by CWIN said that children learn from their parents and children of parents who smoke are directly affected.

Chief Specialist at the Ministry of Health and Population Dr. Nirakar Man Shrestha said that the parliament adopted the FCTC on November 2 and is going to draft a law to implement the ICPD.

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