By 2050, smoking could cause 40 million extra deaths from tuberculosis, reveals study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The estimates derive from a mathematic model of smoking trends and smoking's impact on TB risk.
Africa, the eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia will see the biggest rise in smoking-linked TB, the study says.
"Aggressively lowering the prevalence of tobacco smoking could reduce smoking-attributable deaths from tuberculosis by 27 million by 2050," according to the paper, headed by Sanjay Basu of the University of California at San Francisco.
Source-AFP