New findings from South Africa lead researchers to call for worldwide recording of smoking in death registries

Researchers have called for official death registries in all countries to record whether the dead person was a smoker, in a research Article published in The Lancet. New analyses of nearly half a million death records in South Africa - the first, and so far the only, country to record smoking on death registration forms - show that the death rate from tobacco is more than twice as great in the coloured (mixed ancestry) as in the white population...