The World Health Organization has released a new report on global tobacco control efforts.

“…not a single country fully implements all key tobacco control measures, and outlined an approach that governments can adopt to prevent tens of millions of premature deaths by the middle of this century.”

In this report the WHO finds that only 5% of the worlds population lives in a country which fully protect their population with any one of the key measures that reduce smoking rates. These statistics are quite surprising. To find out more read the news release on the WHO site.

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Smoking related deaths in India are approaching epidemic proportions. New research by Canadian, British and Indian researchers suggests that the country will soon have more than 1 million smoking related deaths annually.

To find out more read the article from the Smoking Deaths An Epidemic In India.

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