In India, tobacco claims ten lakh lives every year, 3,000 lives every day and one life every ten seconds. By the year 2000, it will claim one life every three seconds. Two crore Indian children get addicted to smoking every year. 55,000 children get addicted to smoking every day. These figures were given by Dr Rajesh Chawla, president, Delhi Medical Association(DMA) during a press conference on World No Tobacco Day, which is to be observed on May 31.