SMOKING STATISTICS

Worldwide Smoking Statistics

• A third of male adults smoke worldwide
• smoking related diseases kills 1 in 10 people globally
• by the year 2030 smoking will kill as many as 1 in 6 people
• the rate of smoking is on the rise in developing countries and declining in developed
• In America rates have decreased from the mid 1960's to the mid 1990s by 23%
• In developing countries the rate has increased at a rate of 3.4 % pr year
• 12 times more British people have died related to smoking than all the deaths of world war 2
• Smoking causes more than 1 in 5 deaths in America
• In the Western Pacific region has the highest rate of smoking 2.3 of men smoke
• 1 in 3 cigarettes are sold in the region
• in young teens 13-15 years of age 1 in 5 smoke
• 80,000 and 10,000 children start smoking every day, 1.2 of these live in Asia
• 50% of these smoke for the next 15-20 years
• Cambodia 67% of urban males smoke and 86% of rural
• China 67% males 4 % of women 3000 due every day in China related to smoking
• Japan 51% males and 10% of women and this is on the rise in women
• Malaysia 50% of men and 30% of adolescent boys, lung cancer is increasing
• Phillipines 60% of men 40% boys
• Korea 67% men 6.7% of women