While the numbers are coming down, the report, which did not include electronic cigarette use, highlighted that 36.7 per cent of all men and 7.8 per cent of the world's women were still using tobacco products last year.Įven more concerning, it said that 38 million teens between the ages of 13 and 15 were also doing so.
The WHO calculated that investing just US$1.68 per capita each year in cessation interventions like providing advice via text message could help 152 million tobacco users successfully quit by 2030. The report called on countries to scale up their use of recognised measures to reduce tobacco use, including enforcing advertising bans, plastering health warnings on cigarette packages, raising tobacco taxes and providing assistance to those who want to quit. "We are seeing great progress in many countries" but "this success is fragile", said Ruediger Krech, head of the WHO's health promotion department.
When WHO published its last report on global tobacco trends two years ago, only 32 countries were on track to do so. The report hailed that 60 countries were now on track to reduce tobacco use by 30 per cent between 20. Tuesday's report cautioned that the annual numbers of deaths would continue climbing for some time even as tobacco use declines "because tobacco kills its users and people exposed to its emissions slowly". Tobacco use is estimated to kill more than eight million people each year, most of them directly due to their own tobacco use, while 1.2 million of them are non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke, according to WHO numbers.
"It is very encouraging to see fewer people using tobacco each year," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.īut "we still have a long way to go, and tobacco companies will continue to use every trick in the book to defend the gigantic profits they make from peddling their deadly wares". The report showed that while nearly a third of the global population over the age of 15 used tobacco products back in 2000, only around a fifth is expected to be doing so by 2025. In 2020, some 1.3 billion people were using tobacco globally, down from 1.32 billion two years earlier, the WHO said in a fresh report.Īnd that number, it said, is expected to dwindle to 1.27 billion by 2025, indicating a decrease of some 50 million tobacco users over a seven-year period, even as the global population has swelled. GENEVA: The number of smokers worldwide has dropped steadily in recent years, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday, urging countries to step up control measures further to kick deadly tobacco addiction.
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