QI: The Book Of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition - Plot & Excerpts
It is responsible for the death of one in ten adults worldwide, about five million deaths each year, while cancer is currently killing seven million people a year. If figures continue to rise at current levels, tobacco – and a range of smoking-related diseases – will become the world’s biggest killer by 2030, killing ten million people a year. Around 1.3 billion people are regular smokers. Half of them – that is 650 million people – will eventually be killed by tobacco. Developing countries will suffer the most. Eighty-four per cent of smokers currently reside in middle- to low-income countries, where smoking has been steadily on the increase since 1970. In contrast, smoking levels among men from the United States declined from 55 per cent in the 1950s to 28 per cent in the 1990s. In the Middle East – where half the adult males smoke – tobacco consumption increased 24 per cent between 1990 and 1997. The economic consequences of smoking in the developing world are just as disastrous as the implications for health.
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