Experts warn of health risks, high costs of tobacco consumption in Honduras

Experts warn of health risks, high costs of tobacco consumption in Honduras

Tegucigalpa, May 31 (EFE).- More than 500 people die per year of tobacco-related illnesses in Honduras, a poor Central American country that bears hefty costs in treating pathologies caused by cigarette smoking, experts told Efe on Wednesday. That fatality figure was provided by the head of the Pneumology Department at Honduras’ National Cardiopulmonary Institute, Suyapa Sosa, who spoke to Spain’s international news agency on World No Tobacco Da…