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A total number of smokers on the planet has reached a billion people, and today every fourth man and every twentieth woman is nicotine-dependent.

  

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A more natural way to express this would be: " The total number of smokers on the planet has reached one billion, and today one out of every four men and one out of every twenty women are nicotine-dependent.

  • A more natural way to express this would be: " The total number of smokers on the planet has reached one billion, and today one out of every four men and one out of every twenty women are nicotine-dependent.
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A more natural way to express this would be:

"The total number of smokers on the planet has reached one billion, and today one out of every four men and one out of every twenty women are nicotine-depend

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