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Article: The facts: tobacco is the deadliest consumer product, ill drugs included. It causes an estimated 4.2 million premature deaths a year.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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* About a third of all adults in the world use tobacco.
* Almost one billion of these are men--35% of all men in rich countries and 50% in the Majority World.
* Social taboos and limited finances mean fewer women smoke, around 250 million in total--22% of all women in the West and 9% in the global South. New Zealand/Aotearoa, Norway and Sweden are the only countries in which women smoke as much as men.
* Most smokers start early--nearly a quarter had their first cigarette before the age of 10.
* Nearly 100,000 young people join the tobacco club each day. (1)
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