{
  "id": 6224518,
  "title": "Passive smoking deaths up 50% since 1990: Study",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/passive-smoking-deaths-up-50-since-1990-study",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-08T01:54:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ETHealthworld",
    "slug": "ethealthworld",
    "url": "https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/passive-smoking-deaths-up-50-since-1990-lancet/133903059"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "While India's age-standardised exposure prevalence declined from 43.2% to 30.6% over the last three decades, the absolute number of people exposed rose from 375 million in 1990 to 444 million in 2023, an increase of 18.4%. The health toll also rose sharply, with deaths attributable to second-hand smoke climbing from 217,700 to 325,600 during the same period.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}