这是一组让人不寒而栗的数字—— 日前,全世界约有11亿人常年吸烟,其中近8亿在发展中国家。 世界卫生组织告诫,吸烟的危害比人们预想的要大得多,吸烟使人上瘾的程度不亚于可卡因和海洛因。吸烟导致全世界每年300多万人过早死亡。有25％的心脏病人是因吸烟引起的。80％以上的肺癌是吸烟造成的。如果人类对烟草危害不予足够重视,那么,到2020年或到2030年,全世界每年因烟草中毒致死的人数将达到1000万,其中70％将发生在发展中国家。 This is a chilling number - some 1.1 billion people around the world smoke a year, nearly 800 million of them in developing countries. The World Health Organization warned that the dangers of smoking were much greater than previously thought and that smoking was as addictive as cocaine and heroin. Smoking causes more than 3 million premature deaths worldwide each year. 25% of heart patients are caused by smoking. More than 80% of lung cancer is caused by smoking. If humankind fails to pay enough attention to the harm caused by tobacco, by the year 2020 or 2030, the annual number of people killed by tobacco poisoning in the world will reach 10 million, of which 70% will occur in developing countries.