Sentences with phrase «people a year worldwide»

Philip Morris (pm), the maker of Marlboro cigarettes everywhere except the United States, gets the vast majority of its sales and profits from traditional cigarettes, which kill an estimated 6 million people a year worldwide.

Poor sanitation kills 1.7 people a year worldwide.

Tobacco smoking is estimated to kill about 6 million people each year worldwide and this number is rising.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae infects an estimated 106 million people a year worldwide.

Obesity is responsible for the deaths of over three million people a year worldwide due to its associated diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

A tiny RNA appears to play a role in producing major depression, the mental disorder that affects as many as 250 million people a year worldwide.

Stroke affects over 15 million people each year worldwide.

The findings are important because the respiratory disease kills nearly 2 million people a year worldwide, and its long treatment regimen leads to poor compliance and, in turn, drug - resistant germs.

One study estimated air pollution from fires, which can linger for days to months, already kills 300,000 people a year worldwide.

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He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

Together they earned $ 890 billion in profits last year, have a total of $ 19 trillion in market value, and employ 28.2 million people worldwide.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

An industry trade group expects roughly 27 - million people to fly worldwide on domestic airlines this year.

Projections show in the next four years, Automation Anywhere will reach 3 Million software bots worldwide which are producing at the capacity of 3 Million people.

He was then quoted as saying, «Indeed, if anyone bothered to do the math (obviously, you did not) they would realize that of the over 1M auto deaths per year worldwide, approximately half a million people would have been saved if the Tesla autopilot was universally available.

Dr. Phil is a thought leader and visionary who has helped millions of people worldwide over the years.

Together, this year's Fortune Global 500 companies employ 67 million people worldwide and are represented by 34 countries.

Over the last 12 years, the organization has enlisted over 39,000 volunteers who have helped 500,000 people worldwide.

The ensuing rush of fresh talent, including stunt master Devin Super Tramp, singer Sam Tsui, and science geek Emily Graslie, has been good for YouTube, which says more than 1 billion people worldwide visit the site on a monthly basis, up 25 percent from the previous year.

It's a greater fantasy NOT to believe that there is an all powerful invisible god somewhere in the universe who knows everything, can do anything, hears everyone's thoughts, etc, or that someone died and rose from the dead three days later (this same person was born of a virgin), or that someone spoke to god via a burning bush, or that one old man, who lived to be 900 years old, built a boat that held two of every animal on the earth to survive a worldwide flood?

Based on population estimates from 1650 (500M), about 1 in 62 people worldwide were killed in the Christian on Christian violence in the Thirty Years War, in the name of «true Christian religion».

Join one of the biggest markets: Asia represents 2/3 of the worldwide population and is gaining 20 million new middle class people per year in China alone.

April Is IBS Awareness Month, And This Year We've Got Our Focus On FODMAPs The Importance Of The FODMAP Diet In The Management Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Introduction It is estimated that the prevalence of IBS in Australia ranges from 10 - 25 % of the general population, and more than 1 BILLION people worldwide suffer from IBS - type symptoms.

«Two hundred fourteen people have passed the Master Sommelier exam worldwide since its introduction 40 years ago.

knowing that to a large extent he is responsible for millions of worldwide fans anger, disappointment and lack of happiness.Football is a place where people and fans escape from the harsh realities of life and when arsenal lets us down year after year it becomes unbearable..

WHO will join thousands of people worldwide in marking this year's World Prematurity Day on 17 November 2014.

Each year, nearly 100 million people worldwide are pushed into extreme poverty because they must pay for health expenses out of their own pockets.

Diana A. West, lactation consultant and director of media relations for La Leche League International told Yahoo Parenting, «it's shocking to people in Western countries, but worldwide, children are weaned when they're between 2 and 6 years old on average, so nursing a 6 - year - old is not out of the ordinary.»

Ruszczyk, who was diagnosed with the medical condition five years ago, has been working with Dysautonomia International to raise awareness of this disorder, which impacts more than 70 million people worldwide.

Nearly a million people worldwide take their own lives each year.

Food packaging equipped with such microbe monitors could help curb the spread of foodborne illness, which kills about 420,000 people worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization.

Some 7,000 people worldwide contract HIV every day, and in the U.S. about 66,000 new cases are reported every year.

But with 10 to 20 per cent of people worldwide getting flu every year, that still adds up to a huge burden of illness — and even in a good year some half a million die.

This means that by taking an over-the-counter medication, people can ward off a disease that, according to Alzheimer's Disease International's World Alzheimer Report 2016, affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, costs health care systems worldwide more than US$ 818 billion per year and is the fifth leading cause of death in those aged 65 or older.

Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer worldwide and The American Lung Association estimates more than 158,000 people in the United States will die from the disease this year alone.

Despite the intrigue surrounding Litvinenko's death, the poison that killed him, a rare radioactive isotope called polonium 210, is far more widespread than many of us realize: people worldwide smoke almost six trillion cigarettes a year, and each one delivers a small amount of polonium 210 to the lungs.

Applying the study's findings to the number of people who have psoriasis worldwide would equate to 125,650 new cases of diabetes attributable to psoriasis per year.

Mexico consumes more sugar - sweetened drinks than any other country: looking at Coca - Cola products alone, Mexico consumes 745 servings per person per year, compared to the worldwide average of 94.

Restaurants, the beverage industry and people in their homes produce millions of tons of used coffee grounds every year worldwide, according to researcher Despina Fragouli.

Even today, Malaria is one of the greatest medical challenges worldwide, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year.

Almost one in six people worldwide are infected by parasitic worms, while parasitic infections of livestock cause economic losses of billions of Euro per year.

Neurological and psychiatric disorders affect a growing number of individuals — nearly one in five Americans in a given year and more than two billion people worldwide.

It's been 10 years since the outbreak that infected an estimated 8,000 people worldwide and killed at least 750.

A strain of bird flu that has sickened 132 people and killed 37 in China this year may have more potential to spread worldwide than the dreaded H5N1 avian influenza does.

Every year, between 250,000 and 500,000 people of all ages die worldwide after getting seasonal flu, partly because few people are vaccinated for it.

Used strategically throughout the tropical world, the bacteria could become a practical tool in the fight against malaria, helping to stop mosquitoes from spreading the disease to some of the 250 million people worldwide who currently contract it every year.

Snakebites kill nearly 100,000 people worldwide each year, mostly in the developing world.

Deafness is a major problem in people: millions of people worldwide become deaf or hearing impaired every year.

Over 71 million people live with hepatitis C worldwide, a disease which causes 400,000 deaths a year.

Tuberculosis kills 1.6 million people worldwide each year, and one new person is infected every second.