Gambia: Minister - Tobacco Causes Over 40 Diseases

[Daily Observer]The Health and Social Welfare minister has highlighted the devastating effects of tobacco use, revealing that it causes over 40 diseases, many of them fatal or disabling. He disclosed that smoking is responsible for over 90% of all lung cancer, 75% of chronic bronchitis and emphysema and nearly 25% of ischemic heart diseases.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news