Friday, October 12, 2007

Smoking Kills Millions of People Around the World

Not Succeeding is a failure only if you do not try to quit smoking again.

Results from the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that currently there are 1.3 billion of smokers in the world. The same data show that every 8 seconds somewhere in the world one person dies from consequence of smoking. Smoking is the leading cause of premature deaths in the world.

Experts calculated that the number of deaths caused by smoking will increase by 10 million annually till 2020. In Croatia, every thirs person is a smoker, of which 33.8% are men and 21.7% are women.

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