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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Chaitanya Deshpande | TNN

Tobacco affects GDP, environment, kills non-smokers: Docs

NAGPUR: Most of us know that tobacco kills tens of thousands of people at a young age in India, with Vidarbha being the capital of oral cancer due to the excessive consumption of ‘kharra’, the local form of chewable tobacco. But the loss is not just limited to those who chew or smoke tobacco.

Doctors said tobacco is destroying our environment, hitting our GDP badly and killing even those who neither smoke, nor chew it and hardly get exposed to passive smoking.

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