More than one in 10 deaths globally was caused due to smoking in 2015 and over 50 % of them took place in just four countries, one of which was India, a new study said. Over 11 % of 6.4 million deaths worldwide was caused by smoking in 2015 and 52.2 % of them took place in China, India, USA, and Russia, according to the latest estimates in the Global […]

Smoking costs the global economy more than $1 trillion a year and will kill one-third more people by 2030 than it does now, according to a study by the World Health Organisation and the US National Cancer Institute published on Tuesday. That cost far outweighs global revenues from tobacco taxes, which the WHO estimated at about $269 billion in 2013-2014. “The number of tobacco-related deaths is projected to increase from […]