Issues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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