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[CBI]

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LONDON (Reuters) - Smoking killed nearly five million people in 2000, accounting for almost equal numbers in the developed and developing nations and painting a bleak picture for the future, scientists said on Friday.

Men accounted for three-quarters of all the deaths, a figure rising to 84 percent in the developing nations where 930 million of the world's 1.1 billion smokers are to be found, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts and Queensland University, Australia said in the Lancet medical journal.

The main causes of the tobacco-related deaths were heart and lung diseases, they noted.

The news comes as the major tobacco companies, increasingly under siege in the industrialized world, switch their sales efforts to emerging nations with their expanding populations and rising spending power.

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