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• Russia fourth largest smoking nation -- UN  

Jump to full article: ITAR-TASS (ru), 2009-02-20
Author: 2030, the developing countries will account for more than 80

Intro:

Tobacco epidemic carried away 100 million human lives in the 20th century and today smoking causes the premature death of 5.4 million people.

Unless decisive measures are taken, the figure will go up to 8 million in 2030, says a report on the global tobacco epidemic that was published here Thursday.

Experts of the World Health Organization say more than two thirds of smokers live in ten countries – China, India, Indonesia, Russia, the U.S., Japan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Germany, and Turkey.

Russia is ahead of the U.S. in what concerns the number of smokers although it has a much smaller population.

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