around 50000 people die a year from second hand smoke
Actually there is conflicting numbers from the WHO (World Health Organization)
Their original study showed NO Statistically Significant Corellation to Lung Cancer and Second Hand Smoke; conducted over 7 years, in 12 centers in 7 countries for 7 years. Ref: http:/www.davehitt.com/facts/who.HTML
The British Press Documented the issue:
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An abstract of the study is available here. The entire study can be found here. (.pdf file)
The WHO's press release is located here.
This article, from the British Wall Street Journal, discusses this study and the EPA study.
FORCES has lots of links to articles and editorials on this subject.
Not getting the desired results, the study was quickly pulled.
Currently the WHO states 200,000 people die of Second Hand smoke each year: Ref: http:/www.who.int/features/factfiles/tobacco/en/index.HTML
One needs to wonder whay type of study and statistical rigour went into this conclusion.
over 54,000 people a year
About 5.4 million
Every year there are about 53,800 people that die from secondhand smoke exposure. That is about 1 in 100 people around the world.
Zero. Second-hand smoking is just a myth created by lawyers and anti-corporate/smoking people as an excuse to tie the cases of individuals with lung cancer who spend large amounts of time in the vicinity of smokers.
About 75%
Smoking is a very unhealthy habit. It is estimated that 53,800 people die every year from secondhand smoke exposure every year.
Approx. 60,000 a year worldwide.
Nobody does. Second hand smoke is not a certifiable cause of death. Any figures quoted are merely conjecture and pure propaganda.
most likely u if ur checking this question
600,000 people a year.
over 3,000 because people die every second
It depends on how you define "affected" and whom you ask! It's a very small fraction of those "affected" by traffic pollution. However, both figures are impossible to calculate.