Tobacco could kill 1 billion this century if current trends hold - Jul 10, 2006

CNN - Tobacco could kill 1 billion this century if current trends hold - Jul 10, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If current trends hold, tobacco will kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, public health officials said Monday.
Tobacco accounts for one in five cancer deaths, or 1.4 million deaths worldwide each year, according to two new reference guides that chart global tobacco use and cancer. Lung cancer remains the major cancer among the 10.9 million new cases of cancer diagnosed each year, according to the Cancer Atlas.