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This is a list of diseases of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). They present challenges to the successful cultivation of tobacco. Bacterial diseases.
The World Health Organization estimates that, in total, about 8 million people die from tobacco-related causes, including 1.3 million non-smokers due to secondhand smoke. [7] It is further estimated to have caused 100 million deaths in the 20th century. [4] Tobacco smoke contains over 70 chemicals, known as carcinogens, that cause cancer.
Rates of smoking have leveled off or declined in the developed world. [12] In the developing world, tobacco consumption is rising by 3.4% per year as of 2002. [10] The WHO in 2004 projected 58.8 million deaths to occur globally, from which 5.4 million are tobacco-attributed, and 4.9 million as of 2007. [13]
People who died from cancer or other illnesses resulting from chewing or smoking tobacco products. Pages in category "Tobacco-related deaths" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
The tobacco industry spends $8.5 billion each year on tobacco-related advertising and promotion, it said. That represents about $12 in tobacco industry marketing for each $1 spent by tobacco ...
Global tobacco use has tumbled in a generation with one in five people smoking versus one in three in 2000, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The drop comes despite what the U.N ...
The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco caused 8 million deaths in 2004 [17] and 100 million deaths over the course of the 20th century. [116] Similarly, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes tobacco use as "the single most important preventable risk to human health in developed countries and an ...
The following is a list of the causes of human deaths worldwide for different years arranged by their associated mortality rates. In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths. In 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), about 58 million people died. [1]