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Tobacco use is costly, but so is quitting. Surveys of 8 African countries show who needs help

Tobacco use imposes a large health and economic burden worldwide. Research estimates that, in 2019, about 8-million deaths were attributable to tobacco smoking. Tobacco also reduces years of healthy living: about 200-million disability-adjusted life years in 2019. This health burden comes with high economic costs, directly through medical treatment for tobacco-related diseases, and indirectly through productivity losses. Globally, the total economic cost of smoking amounted to around 1.8% of the...
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Washington โ€“ The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) on Monday said that while the percentage of the population using tobacco in the Americas, including the Caribbean, had declined, novel products and misleading information from the tobacco industry, especially targeting young people, threaten to undo those gains Speaking ahead of World No Tobacco Day on Wednesday, PAHO director, Dr Jarbas Barbosa, called for effective policies to protect young people. โ€œThe tobacco …
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