Global smoking statistics
- About a third of the male adult global population smokes
- Smoking related-diseases kill one in 10 adults globally, 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
- About one in three cigarettes are consumed in the Western Pacific Region
- The tobacco market is controlled by just a few corporations – namely American, British and Japanese multinational conglomerates
- Among young teens (aged 13 – 15), about one in five smokes worldwide
- Between 80,000 and 100,000 children worldwide start smoking every day
- Around 50% of those who start smoking in adolescent years go on to smoke for 15 to 20 years
- Studies show teenagers are heavily influenced by tobacco advertising
- Every cigarette smoked cuts at least 5 minutes of life on average – about the time taken to smoke it
- Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death
- More than 4,000 toxic or carcinogenic chemicals have been found in tobacco smoke
- At least a quarter of all deaths from heart diseases and about three-quarters of world’s chronic bronchitis are related to smoking
- Smoking-related diseases cost the United States more than $150 billion a year
- US-based multinational Philip Morris – the world’s biggest cigarette company – was the world’s ninth largest advertiser in 1996, spending more than $3 billion
- Half of smokers think that smoking can’t be so dangerous
- In 1997, the tobacco industry’s spending on advertising in the United States was about $15 million a day ($5.7 billion for the year)
Cigarette smoking statistics in the USA
- 26.2 million men (23.5 percent) and 20.9 million women (18.1 percent) are smokers
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