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• UN warns of 650 million deaths by smoking 

UN: Of the more than 1.3 billion smokers alive today, about 650 million will eventually be killed by tobacco, warns a new U.N. report released here.

“Unlike most other causes of death, tobacco kills people during their most productive years,” adds the 19-page study by the U.N. Adhoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control. . . .

The report, which will go before the upcoming session of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Jun. 30 - Jul. 25, points to a recent study that estimated 5.4 million deaths caused by smoking in 2005 alone.

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