The agency released the results, conducted via telephone in 2017, as part of a news conference in Taipei to mark the WHO’s World No Tobacco Day, which is today. The average person’s career lasts 40 years, with at least eight hours spent in the workplace each day, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Deputy Director-General Lee Po-chang (李柏昌) said. Spending every day in a smoking environment is detrimental to lung health, he said. Few people know that smoking could also increase the risk of tuberculosis (TB) and TB-related deaths, he added. Globally, about 7.9 percent of people with TB developed the disease due to smoking, Yu said, adding that TB is the 11th-biggest cause of death in the world.

Source: Taipei Times May 31, 2019 15:56 UTC