Tobacco—the growing epidemic
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Medicine
- Vol. 5 (1), 15-17
- https://doi.org/10.1038/4691
Abstract
The largest study ever undertaken to examine the health effects of tobacco finds that there are already a million deaths a year from smoking in China, and it predicts large increases in mortality over the next few decades. This pattern is likely to be repeated in other developing countries.Keywords
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