WHO：全球每年60万人死于二手烟 Module 2 （英语外研必修二）.docVIP

WHO：全球每年60万人死于二手烟 WHO says 600,000 die from passive smoking Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organization (WHO) researchers said on Friday. In the first study to assess the global impact of second-hand smoke, WHO experts found that children are more heavily exposed to second-hand smoke than any other age-group, and around 165,000 of them a year die because of it. Two-thirds of these deaths occur in Africa and South Asia, the researchers, led by Annette Pruss-Ustun of the WHO in Geneva, wrote in the