EVERY YEAR NEARLY 5 MLN PEOPLE DIE AS A RESULT OF SMOKING IN THE WORLD
Noyan Tapan
May 31 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 31, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Ministry of Health with the motto
"Environment Free of Smoke: Create and Enjoy" joined the world
day Without Smoking marked on May 31. As UN Resident Coordinator
Consuelo Vidal said at the press conference held the same day, the
danger of secondary smoke of cigarette for non-smokers is almost
equal to smoking. In her words, smoking causes cancer, as well
as serious respiratory and cardiovascular diseases among children
and adults. Studies showed that today the half of regular smokers,
over 650 million people, will become a victim of smoking. C. Vidal
mentioned as alarming the circumstance that every year hundreds of
thousands of non-smoking people die from diseases caused by secondary
smoke of cigarettes.
C. Vidal said that smoking is the second main cause of death in
the world.
Every year more people die from smoking than in general from accidents,
suicides, AIDS and drugs.
The accounts presented by the World Health Organization mention that
nearly 5 million people die as a result of smoking every year and if
it continues like this, this number will reach 10 million in 2020.