HealthDay (9/3, Preidt) reports that an analysis of data from 113 countries found that “Smokeless tobacco is linked to more than a quarter of a million deaths worldwide each year.” The researchers estimated that in 2010, “smokeless tobacco caused more than 62,000 deaths due to cancers of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus, and more than 200,000 deaths from heart disease.” The study was published online recently in BMC Medicine.
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