Indian women puff their way to the top
Kounteya Sinha | TNN August 27 2009, Times of India Bangalore.
New Delhi: Indian women are among the worst in the world when it comes to smoking . According to the latest Tobacco Atlas, the country ranks third in the top 20 female smoking populations across the globe.
Only the US with 2.3 crore female smokers and China with 1.3 crore women smokers are worse off than India in this chart. However, as far as percentage of women smoking is concerned, it is below 20% for India. Among Indias immediate neighbours, only Pakistan figures in this infamous list, but right at the bottom at 20th with around 30 lakh female smokers.
Published by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, the Atlas makes another serious observation female smokers in India die an average eight years earlier than their nonsmoking peers.
According to the Atlas, about 250 million women in the world are daily smokers 22% being from high resource countries and 9% from low and middle resource countries.
New Delhi: Indian women are among the worst in the world when it comes to smoking . According to the latest Tobacco Atlas, the country ranks third in the top 20 female smoking populations across the globe.
Only the US with 2.3 crore female smokers and China with 1.3 crore women smokers are worse off than India in this chart. However, as far as percentage of women smoking is concerned, it is below 20% for India. Among Indias immediate neighbours, only Pakistan figures in this infamous list, but right at the bottom at 20th with around 30 lakh female smokers.
Published by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, the Atlas makes another serious observation female smokers in India die an average eight years earlier than their nonsmoking peers.
According to the Atlas, about 250 million women in the world are daily smokers 22% being from high resource countries and 9% from low and middle resource countries.
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