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11/29/2010

A new World Health Organization study found passive smoking or secondhand smoke is responsible for 600,000 deaths worldwide each year. Overall, tobacco smoking kills an estimated 5.1 million people every year. Passive smoking causes 379,000 deaths from heart disease, 165,000 deaths from lower respiratory infections, 36,900 deaths from asthma, and 21,400 lung cancer deaths.