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Issues


  • Growing

    Growing

    Tobacco growing is an environmental catastrophe for tobacco-growing countries and an economic disaster for farmers.

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  • Manufacturing

    Manufacturing

    Tobacco products are manufactured to be as attractive and addictive as possible.

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  • Marketing

    Marketing

    Tobacco control wants to prevent tobacco marketing from taking the focus away from death and disease.

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  • Smokeless

    Smokeless

    Smokeless tobacco, while not as harmful as combusted tobacco such as cigarettes, is not harmless.

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  • Waterpipe

    Waterpipe

    Waterpipe, hookah, or shisha all disguise their deadly tobacco smoke in myths of water filters and sweet candy flavors.

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  • Prevalence

    Prevalence

    Despite overall prevalence declines in many countries, there are alarming increases among youth and in low-HDI countries

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  • Youth

    Youth

    Tobacco use among youth is rapidly increasing in many countries; in some, youth more commonly use tobacco than adults.

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  • Consumption

    Consumption

    The number of cigarettes smoked worldwide is finally going down, but the tobacco epidemic’s future remains uncertain.

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  • Illicit Trade

    Illicit Trade

    The tobacco industry is a main driver of and benefits from illegally sold cigarettes.

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  • Secondhand

    Secondhand

    Secondhand smoke kills nearly 900,000 people every year, and still one-quarter of people globally are exposed.

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  • Comorbidities

    Comorbidities

    Tobacco use significantly worsens other major health challenges such as tuberculosis, HIV infection and mental illness.

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  • Environment

    Environment

    Tobacco growing, production and marketing all cause serious environmental harms to our planet.

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  • Health Effects

    Health Effects

    Tobacco use damages the whole body and a regular smoker typically loses more than a decade of life

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  • Deaths

    Deaths

    The global burden of smoking-related diseases is large and expected to increase for decades to come in many countries.

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  • Societal Harms

    Societal Harms

    The economic cost of smoking globally is nearly $2 trillion (2016 PPP) each year, equivalent to almost 2% of world GDP.

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