Still we continue to shut our eyes to the gloom that tobacco unfolds around us. Today tobacco kills 800,000 Indians a year.
Tobacco also kills four million people a year in the world.
By 2030, it will kill 10 million people a year, more than the combined death toll from malaria and other major childhood killer disease. So powerful is the addiction of nicotine and so blinding is the advertising appeal of tobacco products that most consumers, even highly educated ones, believe that somehow they will be spared. People know pretty well that in most cases cancer cannot be cured. And there is much more to the killer tobacco. Here is the rest of the list.