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Bobby Ramakant is a World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General's WNTD Awardee for the year 2008, and writes extensively on health and development for Citizen News Service (CNS). Website: www.citizen-news.org
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 30, 2015 Tobacco smoking ruining lives: Lung cancer rates alarming
Smoking has had a great adverse impact on many communities and has been directly responsible for the plight of those who are slowly wasting away from the ravages of lung cancer. In 2012 (the most recent year for which data are available) lung cancer was the most commonly diagnosed cancer with 1.8 million cases worldwide, accounting for 13% of all cancer cases.