One million people will die from tobacco smoking in India annually accounting for nearly one in every 10 deaths from 2010, researchers said Wednesday. The New England Journal of Medicine study found smoking already accounts for 900,000 deaths a year in India.

Some 70 percent of those people will die before they reach the age of 70 and if the Indian government does not take any action, the smoking death toll will rise further

Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people by 2100, unless stricter regulations will be implemented by governments in poor nations, a report issued by the World Health Organization states.

Citing examples such as raising taxes and require health warnings, the 330-page report released by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the WHO, said that mandates that may decrease the number of smokers are not being fully implemented by any country

A new study shows that young adults who smoke marijuana on a regular basis are more prone to gum disease as compared to those who do not smoke. In a study published in the Feb. 6 edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association, gum disease was more prevalent in people above 32 years of age.

The study of 903 young adults from New Zealand showed that people who smoked the most marijuana were 60 percent more likely to show evidence of gum disease than 32-year-olds who had never smoked pot. Almost one in three people had some evidence of gum loss

A study concluded that heavy marijuana smoking is a major cause of gum problems by age 30 or younger.

The researchers from New Zealand conducted an experiment studying the dental health of 903 people from Dunedin, from 1972 to 1973. The subjects were asked about their marijuana use at ages 18, 21, 26, and 32 years old

A proposed bill that prohibited restaurants from serving obese people was merely an attempt to raise awareness of the obesity problem, explained its author.

House Bill 282, which was announced as scheduled to be vetoed in a subcommittee hearing, was only something that was meant to draw attention to the health concerns of the city, said Rep. John Read (R-Gautier)