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Likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010; more than half of these among poor and illiterate people
Jump to full article: AP, 2008-02-14
Intro: India is in the grip of a smoking epidemic likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, according to a study released on Thursday.
One in five of all male deaths and one in 20 of all female deaths between the ages of 30 and 69 will be caused by smoking, said the study. It was conducted by a team of doctors and scientists from India, Canada and Britain and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"The results… surprised us, because smokers in India start later in life and smoke fewer cigarettes or 'bidis' than those in Europe or America, but the risks are as extreme as in the West," said Prabhat Jha of the Centre for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto, the lead author.
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