Nearly 1 billion people around the world light up cigarettes every day, a new study finds.
The findings signal to experts that despite progress in reducing the number of smokers, more work is still needed to target tobacco use, the researchers said.
Interestingly, the researchers found that although the percentage of people who smoke has declined, the overall number of smokers has actually increased, thanks to population growth, according to the study, published April 5 in the journal The Lancet.
In other words, because there are more people on Earth, there are more smokers. But compared to the overall population, the percentage of people who smoke is lower than it was 25 years ago. [click The Articles: 10 Scientific Quit-Smoking Tips]
"Growth in the sheer number of daily smokers still outpaces the global decline in daily smoking rates, indicating the need to prevent more people from starting the tobacco habit and to encourage smokers to quit," senior study author Emmanuel a Giraudoux, a professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said in a statement.
In the study, the researchers looked at data on smokers in 195 countries and territories between 1990 and 2015. Overall, they found that approximately 933 million people smoked each day in 2015. The world's population was 7.2 billion in 2015, up from 5.3 billion in 1990, according to U.S. Census statistics.
More than 80 percent of these daily smokers in 2015 were men, according to the study. The researchers found that worldwide, 1 in READ MORE >>
The findings signal to experts that despite progress in reducing the number of smokers, more work is still needed to target tobacco use, the researchers said.
Interestingly, the researchers found that although the percentage of people who smoke has declined, the overall number of smokers has actually increased, thanks to population growth, according to the study, published April 5 in the journal The Lancet.
In other words, because there are more people on Earth, there are more smokers. But compared to the overall population, the percentage of people who smoke is lower than it was 25 years ago. [click The Articles: 10 Scientific Quit-Smoking Tips]
"Growth in the sheer number of daily smokers still outpaces the global decline in daily smoking rates, indicating the need to prevent more people from starting the tobacco habit and to encourage smokers to quit," senior study author Emmanuel a Giraudoux, a professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said in a statement.
In the study, the researchers looked at data on smokers in 195 countries and territories between 1990 and 2015. Overall, they found that approximately 933 million people smoked each day in 2015. The world's population was 7.2 billion in 2015, up from 5.3 billion in 1990, according to U.S. Census statistics.
More than 80 percent of these daily smokers in 2015 were men, according to the study. The researchers found that worldwide, 1 in READ MORE >>
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