Second-hand smoke deaths in India have significantly increased over three decades. While exposure rates improved, population growth offset these gains. This trend led to a substantial rise in annual fatalities across both genders. Passive smoking also caused millions of disability-adjusted life-years lost.

In the UK alone, researchers estimated that second-hand smoke was responsible for 6,100 deaths in 2023 - making it deadlier than diseases such as bladder cancer.

More than 2.7 billion people worldwide, including 767 million children, were exposed to second-hand smoke in 2023, contributing to nearly 1.7 million deaths, a Lancet study said…

Deaths from second-hand smoke in India rose nearly fifty percent by 2023. This occurred even as overall death rates improved by about thirty percent. The population exposed to…