health - part 4 - p4

The women who smoked had an eleven percent higher tỉ lệ of AMD than the other women.  In women over eighty, those who smoked were five and a half times more có khả năng to develop AMD than the women who did not smoke.  A report on the study was công bố in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.

People who smoke are not only gây đau themselves.  They also can harm non-smokers.  The World Health Organization thống kê that gián tiếp smoke kills six hundred thousand people each year.

The quốc tế Union Against Cancer says about seven hundred million children thở smoke-filled air.  Expectant mothers who smoke are more likely to have babies with health problems and low birth weight.  Such babies may chịu đựng health problems as they lớn.

Even after all the cảnh báo, the WHO says one billion three hundred million people still smoke.  The number of smokers is mong đợi/ dự báo to grow to one billion seven hundred million by twenty twenty-five.  Smoking rates have giảm in the United States and Europe.  But rates have tăng in other areas.