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February 8, 2008
One Billion People, Up in Smoke
That's the number of people the World Health Organization believes will die of smoking and other tobacco-related illnesses this century, in the absence of any sustained effort to reduce tobacco usage. The WHO's report indicates that almost all of these deaths will occur in developing countries, which lack many of the same anti-smoking efforts developed countries have undertaken for many years.
Almost one-third of the world's smokers are in China, according to the report, and about 100 million Chinese men under 30 will die because of their tobacco consumption unless they quit.
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