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Introduction

Number of deaths: Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network. Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (GBD 2023) Results. Seattle, United States: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2024. Available from https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/.

Annual cost-of-illness attributable to smoking: Nargis N, Oo SMT, Drope J. 2025. Cost Recovery and Revenue Estimator. In Drope J, Hamill S, editors, Tobacco Atlas. New York: Vital Strategies and Johns Hopkins University. Available at: https://tobaccoatlas.org/corre/.

Current Rates of Smoking and Tobacco Use in Brazil

Adult smoking prevalence: WHO. Global Health Observatory database. Available from https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/gho-tobacco-control-monitor-current-tobaccouse-tobaccosmoking-cigarrettesmoking-nonagestd-tobnonagestdcurr

Number of adult smokers: WHO global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000–2030. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2024. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Youth smoking prevalence: Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network. Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (GBD 2023) Risk Exposure Estimates 1990-2023. Seattle, United States of America: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2025. Available from https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/gbd-2023-risk-exposure-estimates-1990-2023.

Adult Smokeless Tobacco Use: WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2025: warning about the dangers of tobacco. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Deaths caused by Tobacco: Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network. Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (GBD 2023) Results. Seattle, United States: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2024. Available from https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/.

Negative Effect of Tobacco Use in Brazil

Harm Development: Smoker expenditure in percentage of GDP per capita taken from WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2025: warning about the dangers of tobacco. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Societal Harms: Annual cost-of-illness attributable to smoking taken from Nargis N, Oo SMT, Drope J. 2025. Cost Recovery and Revenue Estimator. In Drope J, Hamill S, editors, Tobacco Atlas. New York: Vital Strategies and Johns Hopkins University. Available at: https://tobaccoatlas.org/corre/.

Environmental Harms: Calculation used cigarette sales data by countries taken from Euromonitor International. (2025). Market sizes: Cigarettes [Dataset]. Passport. https://www.portal.euromonitor.com/

Tobacco Industry: Total revenue of the 6 largest tobacco companies 2023 taken from companies’ financial reports and news. 

Tobacco Growing: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAOSTAT. Rome, Italy: FAO. Retrieved September 30, 2025, from http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home

Ending the Tobacco Epidemic

Designated smoke-free areas, availability of cessation services, tobacco packaging regulations, tobacco control mass media campaigns: WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2025: warning about the dangers of tobacco. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Tobacco tax policies: Drope, J., Oo, S., Dorokhina, M, Guerrero-López, C., Rodriguez-Iglesias G., Mugosa, A., Bontu, A., Malik, S., Villacres, T. & Chaloupka, F. (2025). Economics for Health Cigarette Tax Scorecard (4th ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. www.economicsforhealth.org.

Regulations on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS): WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2025: warning about the dangers of tobacco. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.