Facts on Tobacco use
26 May 2011
- There are 1.1 billion people in the world, and up to 1/3 of the adult population, who use tobacco.
- If the current trend continues, number of tobacco users is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by 2025.
- Rates of smoking have declined in developed countries, but continue to rise in developing nations.
- WHO estimates that tobacco causes 5.4 million deaths per year.
- China, which is home to 300 million smokers who consume approximately 1.7 trillion cigarettes a year, or 3 million cigarettes a minute, is the world’s largest tobacco market.
- Approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute globally, 15 billon are sold each day, and upward of 5 trillion are produced and used annually.
- Toxic chemicals in cigarette filters from tobacco to smoke go to our environment as waste every year.
- Radioactive lead and polonium are both found in low levels in cigarette smoke.
- More than 50 cancer causing chemical compounds are obtained from second hand smoke of which 11 are known to be group 1 carcinogens.
- One in five teens aged 13 to 15 smoke cigarettes worldwide.
- Tobacco use claims a human life in every eight seconds somewhere in the world—approximately 5 million deaths annually.
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