Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Smoker numbers edge close to one billion
As the number of people living on this
planet has increased rapidly for the last thee decades, so has the number of smokers,
according to the Journal of American Medical Association report. And that
increase has been generated mainly in developing countries where public health awareness
and education are not quite up to the speed of economic development and
population increase.
Is it just bad for physical health? Another
data suggests that nearly five trillion cigarettes were consumed three decades
ago but now over six trillion cigarettes are smoked, a little over 25%
increase. Doesn’t that much fume from smoking affect the environment and air
pollution as well?
Enjoy reading and learning how smoking is
popular and prevalent in some places in the world.
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