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Wednesday 1 December 2010

Expatriate Medical Insurance News: Passive smoking 'kills 165,000 children a year'


Overseas health insurance customers who smoke could be putting their and their children's lives at risk.

This is the warning from the World Health Organisation's researchers, who revealed that 603,000 people, including 165,000 children, die each year from passive smoking.

Second-hand smoke inhalation leads to around one in 100 deaths worldwide, causing conditions such as ischaemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, asthma and lung cancer.

Each illness can result in ...


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