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More than 900 million of the world’s 1.1 billion smokers currently live in low- and middle-income countries.

More than 900 million of the world’s 1.1 billion smokers currently live in low- and middle-income countries.

Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office

Smoking and solid-fuel-burning in homes in China projected to cause millions of deaths

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