Thursday, April 6, 2017
Report Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Finds Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year
Smoking kills more than one in 10 people worldwide.
A major new study in the medical journal Lancet found that, in 2015, 11.5% of global deaths (approximately 6.4 million people) were attributable to smoking worldwide, of which 52.2% took place in four countries: China, India, Russia and the U.S. The study used over 2,818 pieces of research identified through several sources, including the Global Health Data Exchange (http://ghdx.healthdata.org/), World Health Organization, and International Smoking Statistics Database...