1. What is the distribution of smokers at the global level?
- The number of smokers has reached a new global record high, according to a comprehensive survey on smoking in over 200 countries.
- There are more than 1.14 billion active smokers worldwide, up from less than one billion 30 years ago.
- China is the country with the largest smoking population in the world, accounting for almost a third of all tobacco users on the planet.
- Latin America is the region where smoking has declined the most in recent decades. Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica have seen the greatest decline in the number of smokers.
- El Salvador, on the other hand, is the only Latin American country where tobacco consumption has increased.
2 What are the reasons for the large differences at national level?
- Many countries have conducted campaigns and strengthened their regulations to eliminate smoking, but not all have fully implemented them. This partly explains why progress in tobacco control has slowed down while the world population has grown.
3. Are there still big differences between men and women?
- Five times as many men (32.7%) as women (6.62%) use tobacco or tobacco products.
- Currently, about 7.41 trillion cigarettes are consumed each year. This corresponds to an average daily consumption of 20.3 billion.
- Tobacco consumption is highest among men. About 32.3% of men (worldwide) smoke more than 20 cigarettes per day.
4 Why has tobacco consumption increased?
About 30 years ago, with about 990 billion active smokers, many countries implemented various campaigns to discourage smoking.
The strategy, binding on the 182 countries that signed it, began to work. In the four years that followed, there was the biggest drop in tobacco use ever seen in the world.
To discourage access to tobacco, the plan increases taxes on tobacco purchases, creates smoke-free laws, displays warning labels on cigarette packs and bans tobacco advertising and promotion, among other measures.
- Only Brazil and Turkey have fully implemented all measures.
- In many countries, the decline in smoking rates has not kept pace with population growth. As a result, the number of smokers worldwide has steadily increased since 1990.
- In addition, countries with large populations and many consumers, most notably China and Indonesia, have made "little or no progress" in combating smoking over the past three decades. And in many countries, even those that were very successful in their early campaigns, the pace of progress has slowed, especially in the last five years.
5. Where has consumption declined?
Although they too contribute to the global problem, almost all Latin American countries have reduced tobacco consumption over the last three decades.
- Brazil is notable (number one in the world) with a 73.4% decrease in smoking, but other countries such as Costa Rica and Colombia are also among the 10 nations with the best progress since 1990.
- Peru is the country with the lowest consumption among men (7.33%) in the world.
- Mexico and Costa Rica also stand out for having achieved a reduction in smoking among women of almost 50%.
6 Where has consumption increased?
- El Salvador was the only country in the region where consumption increased, with an average between men and women of 35.6%.
- Guatemala and Bolivia only had a reduction of less than 10% since 1990.
The overall reduction of 19.8% in Latin America and the Caribbean is higher than that of the highly industrialised countries (16.2%).
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7. What is currently the best way to smoke tobacco?
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