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Tobacco behind 7 percent deaths above 30 in
India
Friday April 27, 2012 08:46:51 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Tobacco
usage caused 7 percent of all deaths above the age of 30 in India,
Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told the Lok
Sabha Friday.
Azad in a written reply cited data from the World Health
Organisation's 2012 Global Report on Mortality Attributable to
Tobacco.
"Seven percent of all deaths for age 30 and over in India are
attributable to tobacco. The proportion of deaths was almost 12
percent for men and 1 percent for women," he said.
"Tobacco was responsible for 9 percent of all non-communicable
diseases and 2 percent of communicable disease-related deaths," he
said.
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