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- Tobacco kills up to half of its users.
- Tobacco kills more than seven million people each year. More than six million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 890,000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.
- Around 80% of the world’s 1.1...
 
    
    
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