WHO REPORT SAYS HABITS SUCH AS SMOKING CAUSES MORE CANCER THAN GENERAL AIR POLLUTION
September 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT'S not where you live that gives you cancer, it's what you do. That is the stark message given by a new detailed World Health Organisation (WHO) study of French cancer data. It found by examining epidemiological data for cancer in France during the year 2000 that tobacco smoke was responsible for 23.9% of all cancer deaths (34,383 smoking-related deaths), alcohol consumption for 6.9% (9,880 deaths); infections 3.7% (5,378 deaths); work-related risks 2.4% (3,439 deaths); obesity 1.6% (2,316 deaths); and physical inactivity 1.6% (2,239 deaths). ...
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