Children lose 8.45 million days of healthy life each year globally due to second hand smoke, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands [1]
Modified-Risk Tobacco Products: A Brief History Philip Morris began to realize in the 1950s that a healthier cigarette could drive up sales, while also providing ammo for the company to criticize other tobacco companies that did not offer a light option
(dpa) - Three different cigarette packs bought in Passau, Germany, display the term 'lights', 10 December 2002
The study estimates that almost half the Israeli population suffers from second-hand smoke (SHS) penetrating their homes, mostly from smoking neighbors
However, the number of deaths caused by tobacco use went up by 4.7 percent in the same period, a rise due to the increasing world population