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Jump to full article: Medical News TODAY(UK), 2008-03-31
Intro: Following the World Health Organisations, warning that tuberculosis killed 1.7 million people in India and China in 2006, anti-tobacco campaigners claim that smoking was the main factor causing the spread of TB and death from the disease.
Dr. P C Gupta of Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, said, "Smokers have an increased risk of contracting TB and suffer much worse symptoms. In India smoking is responsible for the spread of TB and kills more people than lung cancer."
Dr Gupta added, "When researchers looked at the effect of smoking, the findings revealed that 40 percent of TB deaths were among men and it happened because of smoking."
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