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❗️Someone else’s cigarette can kill: passive smoking takes nearly 1,7 million lives a year, — Daily Mail
A new large-scale study showed that in 2023, 2,71 billion people regularly breathed other people’s tobacco smoke — effectively one in three people on the planet.
📍According to researchers’ estimates, passive smoking was associated with 1,66 million premature deaths per year.
📍Among those exposed to other people’s smoke were 767 million children under 15 years old and about 1,49 billion women.
📍The largest share of adult deaths is due to ischemic heart disease. Risks of stroke, lung disease, and cancer also increase.
📍In children, passive smoking was linked to about 5,2 million cases of lower respiratory tract infections in just 2023 year.
📍Researchers emphasize: there is no safe level of exposure to passive smoking.
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