Worldwide smoking statistics

Have one statistics take from World Health Organisation (WHO), say that above 47% of adult males smoke. Beside that, adult women smoke is above 12%. The most adult smoke is male. One the other hand, in developed nations, there have 42% of adult males smoke. Furthermore, adult women smoke is above 24%. Although, it has signs of decrease in trend. However, in developing nations, it has 48% of adult males smoke compared to 7% of adult women smoke. And, it is a signs of increase in developing nations.

. Globally, smoking-related diseases kill one in 10 adults or cause four million deaths.
· Every eight seconds someone dies from tobacco use.
· About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily, or 10 million every minute.
· Among World Health Organisation regions, the Western Pacific Region - which covers East Asia and the Pacific - has the highest smoking rate, with nearly two-thirds of men smoking.
· Among young teens worldwide - aged 13 to 15- about one in five smokes.
· Between 60,000 and 100,000 children worldwide start smoking everyday - roughly half of whom live in Asia.
· Half of long-term smokers will die of lung cancer, heart disease and chronic lung diseases.
· More than 4,000 chemicals of which 2,000 are toxic, 63 carcinogenic and the remainder irritants have been found in tobacco smoke.
· Every cigarette smoked cuts at least five minutes of life on average.
· 90% of all deaths from lung cancer and 30% of all cancer related deaths are from smoking.


Information was sourced from the World Health
Organisation, Regional Office For The Western Pacific.


by Siew Chung