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It’s National Non-Smoking Week
Some startling stats about smoking
- 600,000 people died of second-hand smoking globally in 2011
- 75% of those who died of second-hand smoking were women and children
- 17%: Canada’s smoking rate has dropped to 17%, but that’s still 5 million Canadians who smoke
- 6 million: Tobacco kills nearly 6 million people per year globally
- $4.4B: tobacco addiction is the leading causing of preventative disease, disability and death, costing Canada’s health care system
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