Mar 17 2012
A global report (.pdf) published by the WHO, titled "Mortality Attributable to Tobacco," "provides information by country on the proportion of adult (age 30 years and above) deaths attributable to tobacco by major communicable and non-communicable causes by age and sex," the agency's website states (March 2012). According to the U.N. News Centre, the report "shows that five percent of all deaths from communicable diseases worldwide and 14 percent of deaths resulting from non-communicable illnesses among adults aged 30 and above were attributable to tobacco use" (3/15).
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