Sentences with phrase «premature death toll»

The premature death toll from tobacco is staggering and historians have shown how it was needlessly inflated by industry - sponsored denial of robust medical evidence (Proctor, 2011).

It would save lives too, reducing the notional premature death toll by 23,000, and would burn only about 4,000 square kilometres of forest.

Providing access to clean cooking for all lowers the premature death toll by 1.8 million people per year in 2030.

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A 2010 report from the Clean Air Task Force, The Toll From Coal found that, in the United States, particle pollution from existing coal power plants is expected to cause some 13,200 premature deaths in 2010, as well as 9,700 additional hospitalizations and 20,000 heart attacks.