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• 30,000-40,000 Vietnamese die from smoking annually  

Between 30,000 and 40,000 people in Vietnam die of diseases caused by smoking each year, according to local newspaper Youth on Monday.

Some 56 percent of local men aged 15 upwards are cigarette smokers, the newspaper quoted the Vietnam Tobacco Control Program as reporting.

In recent years, smokers in Vietnam have spent over 8.2 trillion Vietnamese dong (512.5 million U.S. dollars) on smoking, said the program's secretary, Phan Thi Hai.

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