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A million Indians in the productive age group of 30-69 years will die every year starting 2010 from a range of conditions caused by smoking, according to a new study released in Thursday’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The number of people who die from smoking related illnesses currently isn’t known.

The study, conducted by the Center for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto, Canada, is the first nationwide research on smoking and death in India.

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