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Could smoking kill one billion people this century?

Sir Richard Peto is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. His landmark study with Alan Lopez at the World Health Organization predicted that one billion people would die from diseases associated with tobacco this century. By comparison, 100 million people were killed by tobacco in the 20th Century.

(Image: Smoking. Credit: Press Association.)

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