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Alcohol

What's Changing? - Addiction

Submitted by Halcyon Identifies on 30 June 2019
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Please see below selected recent addiction-related change.

 

See also: What's New? - Addiction

 

May 2019

  • The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 8 million people a year. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. Around 80% of the 1.1 billion smokers worldwide live in low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest. Tobacco users who die prematurely deprive their families of income, raise the cost of healthcare and hinder economic development.

 

March 2019

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