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The numbers are staggering: Tobacco causes approximately 1.35 million deaths in India every year Nearly 28.6% of Indian adults use some form of tobacco India contributes around 6% of global tobacco-related deaths Tobacco-related illnesses cost the Indian economy more than 1 lakh crore annually Smokeless tobacco products such as gutka and khaini account for the majority of tobacco use in India Punjab's Growing Challenge Punjab faces a serious and often underestimated tobacco problem

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In 2019, countries with the highest consumption of alcohol, tobacco use, cigarette smoking, and SHS were in an order Estonia (27.56), Montenegro (50.52), Armenia (33.37), Greenland (51.12), and Nauru (49.20)

According to the author of the same study mentioned above, William Blot of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Our data indicated there is no evidence that menthol smokers have a harder time quitting smoking. If menthol cigarettes were more addictive, we should expect to see menthol smokers using more cigarettes per day than non-menthol smokers, but the reverse is true