Secondhand Smoke Still Threatens Billions
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While passive smoking is linked to approximately 1.7 million premature deaths worldwide each year, the situation in Turkey is also alarming. According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), 54% of households in the country have at least one person who smokes or uses tobacco. Furthermore, tobacco is consumed in 26.6% of households with children. The Ministry of Health aims to reduce indoor passive exposure among 13-15 year olds from 44% to …
A 2023 study highlights the alarming rise in passive smoking deaths in India, with numbers increasing from 217,700 in 1990 to 325,600.
Silent Killer: Passive Smoking Kills 1.7 Million People a Year, Especially Children and Women Suffer
The latest study revealed that more than a third of the population worldwide is exposed to passive smoking.
Do you smoke? Outside the international study report with a warning that your life is in danger even if not. The poison that others smoke, even if they don't smoke on their own...
A recent study revealed that more than 2.7 billion people around the world were subjected to passive smoking during 2023, including 767 million children, and related to 1.66 million premature deaths during the same year. The study, Tuesday, published in the journal Lancet for Public Health, noted that tobacco remains one of the leading causes of global disease and death, with... this negative smoking content... a silent threat to millions' lives…
Secondhand Smoke Still Threatens Billions
Secondhand smoke remains a huge global health problem even though smoking rates have fallen in many parts of the world. New research estimates that more than 2.7 billion people, including hundreds of millions of children, were exposed to other people’s tobacco smoke in 2023. The exposure was linked to nearly 1.7 million premature deaths that […]
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