2. Smoking kills 900,000 people every year
in India, and unless corrective action is
taken soon that number will increase to 1
million smoking-related deaths annually by
2010 and beyond, according to a study
published in the New England Journal of
Medicine and conducted by scientists from
India, Canada and the UK. For the study,
900 field workers gathered information
from a sample of 1.1 million homes in all
parts of India.
3. Highlights of the study include
Smoking may soon account for 20
percent of all male deaths and 5
percent of all female deaths among
Indians between the ages of 30 and
69.
About 61 percent of men who smoke
can expect to die between the ages of
30 and 69, compared with only 41
percent of non-smoking men who are
similar in other ways.
