Statistics of Smoking|Tobacco Statistics.

Smoking Statistics and Tobacco statistics discussed here are those of the whole world, the United States and England. They give the smoking statistics among the adult population, statistics of smoking in teenagers and statistics of deaths caused by smoking.

Though the smoking statistics or the tobacco statistics look quite discouraging to the reader, the fact remains that they compare favorably to the smoking stats of 25 to 30 years ago. This is especially true of the developed countries, where the literacy rate is high. This is  probably due to the awareness of the bad effects of smoking on health and the anti smoking measures imposed by various countries across the globe.

Global Smoking Statistics.

• One third of the male population in the world smokes tobacco.
• According to statistics of 2010, about 20% of the world population smokes.
• Smoking death Statistics. 10% of the adult population which smokes, dies of tobacco related diseases. That is approximately 4 million deaths a year.
• There is a death caused by tobacco every 8 seconds.
• About 10 million cigarettes are sold every minute in the world.
• That is, 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily across the globe.
• That comes to 5 trillion cigarettes being sold annually.
• About 33% of the cigarettes are used in the Western Pacific region. (East Asia and The Pacific).
• The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2030, 10 million people will die every year due to tobacco related illnesses. This makes smoking the biggest killer globally. The increase will be more in women than men.
• WHO also forecasts that the death rate from smoking in the 21^st century will be ten times more than the deaths in the 20^th century.

Teenage Smoking Statistics.

• About 80,000 to 1,00,000 kids start smoking everyday.
• About 20% of the teens between the age of 13 to 15 years smoke worldwide.
• 50% of the kids who start smoking early in life continue smoking for another 15to 20 years before quitting.
• About 25% of the youth that is alive today in the West Pacific will die from tobacco related diseases.
• Tobacco advertisement has a great impact on children to start smoking.

Smoking Statistics in America/U.S.A.

• Smoking kills more people than all deaths due to car accidents, suicides, AIDs, alcohol, murders and illegal drugs combined.

• About 46.2 million adults in the U.S. smoke tobacco. (That is roughly 23% of the U.S. population).
• Smoking figures of adults who smoke have dropped by half from 1965 to 2006.—from about 42% to 21%.
• Smoking Death Statistics. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of deaths that can be prevented, accounting for about 1 in 5 deaths or 4,43,000 preventable deaths every year. A quote on smoking death statistics: One thousand Americans stop smoking everyday – by dying.
• 23.5% of the adult men and 17.9% of the adult women in the U.S. smoke cigarettes.
• Smoking Statistics by age:
  1. about 22% are between the age of 18 to 24 years.
  2. about 24% are between the age of 25 to 44 years
  3. about 22% are between the age of 45 to 65 years .
  4. about 9% are above 64 years of age.

• Smoking Statistics by education.
  1. About 50% of smokers are adults with a GED diploma.
  2. The rest of 50% are either graduates, or undergraduates or adults with 9 to 11 years of school education.

• Teen Smoking Statistics in the U.S.

1. 25% of all teens in the U.S. smoke.
2. Every day 1000 teens start smoking.

Smoking Statistics for England/U.K.

• About 21% of the adult population smokes which has reduced from 39% in 1980.
• 4 out of 5 people agree that smoking in public places should be banned.
• About 5% of the hospitalized cases in adults over 35 years of age were attributed to smoking.
• Smoking Death Statistics. About 18% of all deaths above the age of 35 years were due to smoking.
• In 2009, about 67% of the smokers wanted to give up smoking and 75% of them have made failed attempts.

• Teen Smoking Statistics in U.K.

  1. About 30% of secondary school students have tried smoking at least once.
  2. 6% of these students smoke at least one cigarette once a week.
  3. Girls were more inclined to smoke than boys.

Summary:

Smoking is a widespread addiction but the goods news is that the smoking statistics or tobacco statistics of today do compare favorably to those of about 20 to 30 years ago. However, do read secondhand smoking facts and statistics to know how widely second hand smoking affects the non smoker.

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