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Friday, May 31, 2013

Tobacco Day infographic

World No Tobacco Day infographic: The numbers behind smoking cigarettes


HEALTH Smoking/cigarette...Undated handout picture of a woman smoker. Family doctors are too overworked to tackle patients about smoking even though treating smoking-related illnesses costs the NHS  1.5 billion a year in England, research showed, Monday March 10, 2003. Some GPs were so worried about increasing their workload that they were unwilling to put up posters about quitting smoking in their waiting rooms. The findings by charity group No Smoking Day, which falls on Wednesday March 12, also showed that one in two smokers will die from the habit. See PA story HEALTH Smoking. PA Photo/handout....A...LONDON...UK
Smoking causes one in ten adult deaths, according to the World Health Organization (Picture: PA)
It may not roll off the tip of the tongue, but World No Tobacco Day will be on the lips of many today.
The campaign has organised for 25 years by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is held each May 31./.../

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