How many people die in a year from smoking in India?

Answer 1

Smoking kills 900,000 people every year in India, and unless corrective action is taken soon that number will increase to 1 million smoking-related deaths annually by 2010 and beyond, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and conducted by scientists from India, Canada and the UK. For the study, 900 field workers gathered information from a sample of 1.1 million homes in all parts of India.

Highlights of the study include:

• Smoking may soon account for 20 percent of all male deaths and 5 percent of all female deaths among Indians between the ages of 30 and 69.
• About 61 percent of men who smoke can expect to die between the ages of 30 and 69, compared with only 41 percent of non-smoking men who are similar in other ways.
• About 62 percent of women who smoke can expect to die between the ages of 30 and 69, compared to only 38 percent of non-smoking women.
• On average, men who smoke bidi-the popular hand-rolled cigarettes that contain about one-quarter as much tobacco as a full-sized cigarette-shorten their lives by about six years. Men who smoke full-sized cigarettes lose about 10 years of life.
• Bidi-smoking women shorten their lives by about eight years on average.
• Smoking 1-7 bidis a day, for example, raised mortality risks by 25 percent while smoking an equal number of cigarettes daily doubled the risk of death to 50 percent.

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