U.N.: Smoking could kill 1 billion by 2100

Seeded on Sat Jan 3, 2009 10:21 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report.

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