Sharing cancers, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases: tobacco made 75 000 deaths in France in 2015, which represents more than one in eight deaths, according to the latest official figures, published on Tuesday before the world day without tobacco. "As in most industrialized countries, smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in France," says the weekly epidemiological Bulletin (BEH) of the public health agency France. The previous balance sheet was 2016 and covered the year 2013. It was 73 000 deaths, the same proportion as the total number of deaths that year (about 13%). In 2015, 75 320 deaths were estimated attributable to smoking on the 580 000 deaths recorded in metro... [Read more]