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Jump to full article: di-ve.com (mt), 2009-09-29
Author: John Paul Cordina
Intro: Smoking claimed the lives of 372 people in Malta last year, Social Policy Minister John Dalli revealed.
Replying to a Parliamentary Question by Labour MP Carmelo Abela, Mr Dalli said that 260 men and 112 women died due to smoking-related causes in 2008. A further 113 Maltese residents, 78 men and 35 women, died in the first 3 months of 2009.
The 2007 Lifestyle Survey, issued by the National Statistics Organisation, shows that 33.5 per cent of adult males and 19.4 per cent of adult females smoke in Malta.
According to the World Health Organisation, tobacco - "the only legal consumer product that kills when used exactly as intended by the manufacturer" - is the second major cause of death in the world, responsible for around 5 million deaths each year. If current smoking patterns continue, tobacco is expected to cause around 10 million deaths annually by 2020.
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