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The Last Song

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"The Last Song" is the reflection of false glamorization of tobacco felt by yet another victim of tobacco. Mr. Babu Lal. As a young adult, Babu Lal saw all his friends and companions smoking and thought it to be a good thing. He fell in for tobacco and consumed "Beedi's" (Indian...

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Tobacco use is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced.

  • There are more than one billion smokers in the world.

  • Globally, use of tobacco products is increasing, although it is decreasing in high-income countries.

  • Almost half of the world's children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke.

  • The epidemic is shifting to the developing world.

  • More than 80% of the world's smokers live in low- and middle-income countries.

  • Tobacco use kills 5.4 million people a year - an average of one person every six seconds - and accounts for one in 10 adult deaths worldwide.

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