- 8M deaths per year 100M deaths over 20th century estimates as high as 1 billion deaths this century Short thread from our @OurWorldInData entry on Smoking: ourworldindata.org/grapher/number 1/ Tobacco is the cause of 8 million premature deaths each year 7M from smokers 1.2M from secondhand smoke For reference: 1.2M people die in road accidents each year [although a younger demographic]
We were just a couple of recent university grads with a few weeks to kill in Africa, and instead of joining our friends somewhere typical -- Kenya, Zanzibar, or Timbuktu -- Dan and I got it in our heads that post-civil war Sierra Leone was the place to go
The data suggests that plain packaging is one measure that can maximize the safe and effective rollout of cannabis legalization that ensures and protects the health, safety and wellbeing of all members of our community, Goodwin said
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In his recent Comment is free piece Nash Riggins claims that vaping is just as dangerous as smoking, and expresses robust support for NHS Boards in Scotland who intend to ban the use of electronic cigarettes when their grounds go tobacco free in April
