Tobbaco Report

MAY 31st World No Tobacco Day:

The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing nearly six million people a year. More than five million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600 000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. Approximately one person dies every six seconds due to tobacco, accounting for one in 10 adult deaths. Up to half of current users will eventually die of a tobacco-related disease.

Nearly 80% of the more than one billion smokers worldwide live in low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest.

Cancer killed 5.56 lakh in India in 2010’

Key facts

• Tobacco kills up to half of its users.
• Tobacco kills nearly 6 million people each year. More than five million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600 000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. Unless urgent action is taken, the annual death toll could rise to more than eight million by 2030.
• Nearly 80% of the world's one billion smokers live in low- and middle-income countries.
• Consumption of tobacco products is increasing globally, though it is decreasing in some high-income and upper middle-income countries.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Nearly 6 Million people killed by tobacco each year.
• 6,00,000 people die each year from exposure to sound hand smoke.
• 63% of deaths are caused by NCDs with Tobacco as the greatest risk factor.
• 2500 die in India each day with tobacco consumption.
• Total deaths will reach 1.5 million by 2020.
• Killed 100 million young men in 100 years.