‘Tsunami’ of Tobacco-Linked Deaths Predicted

8 January 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Health care policy and administration / Priority health concerns / Public health / Social development
American Medical Association / University of Melbourne / University of Washington

The government must act now in order to avoid a “tsunami” of tobacco-related deaths in the coming years, according to the co-author of a new report on smoking that appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday. Research for the study, Smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption in 187 countries, 1980-2012, was carried out for the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. It found that smoking kills 9,000 Cambodian men every year. …

 Lauren Crothers
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