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WHO: Don’t let smoking steal life breathtaking moments
30.05.2019 13:11 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of this week, while speaking ahead of the World No Tobacco Day (marked annually May 31) within Geneva, Dr Vinayak Prasad, WHO Acting Director of the Department for the Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases, has admitted the tobacco use continues to claim around eight million lives a year, and urged the governments to strengthen their activity to tackle smoking and the «enormous» health, social, environmental and economic costs it entails, UN Radio reports.
As to the report, Dr Prasard highlighted the damage that tobacco causes to the lungs of smokers and non-smokers alike. He warned that 3.3 million tobacco-related deaths (over 40% total) come from lung diseases, such as cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and tuberculosis.
«We want to highlight the huge scale of tobacco-related lung diseases. Out of that 3.3 (million), about half a million people are those who are exposed to second-hand smoke and die from it… Amongst children, less than five years old, 60,000 children die every year from second-hand smoke these are all low respiratory-tract infections,» he said.
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