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- Around 5.4 million deaths a year are caused by tobacco.
* Smoking is set to kill 6.5 million people in 2015 and 8.3 million humans in 2030, with the biggest rise in low-and middle-income countries.
* Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). * An estimated 1.3 billion people are smokers worldwide (WHO).
- Over 438,000 Americans (18.1 percent of all deaths) die because of smoking each year. Secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 of them.
- 1.2 million people in China die because of smoking each year. That's 2,000 people a day.
- Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century if current smoking trends continue.
- Around 100 million people died because of tobacco use in the 20th century.
- 650,000 Europeans die each year from tobacco-related diseases, EU figures reveal.
- In India, about 900,000 Indians a year die from smoking-related diseases, that's nearly one in 10 of all deaths in India. Half of Indian males use tobacco and it is becoming more popular with younger people.
- In Russia, smoking kills between 400,000 and 500,000 Russians every year from smoking ailments.
- In Japan, smoking is the leading cause of death and is responsible for 20% of all cancers. 50 percent of men and 14 percent of women smoke.
- About 140,000 Germans die every year from tobacco-related illnesses. Nearly one in three German adults smokes regularly. Some studies estimate that 3,000-4,000 deaths per year can be attributed to passive smoking.
- In Turkey, around 110,000 people each year die of smoking-related illnesses, according to official figures.
- In France, there are about 66,000 smoking-related deaths each year and up to 5,800 deaths from passive smoking, inhaling the smoke of smokers. About 12 million people are smokers, 25 percent of the population.
- Mexico has around 65,000 cigarette-related deaths a year. The country has 105 million people.
- In Spain, there are 50,000 smoking-related deaths annually. About 30 percent of Spaniards smoke.
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- In South Korea, an estimated 49,000 people die each year of smoking-related diseases, according to the private Korean Association of Smoking and Health.
- 50,000 Iranians die each year from tobacco related illnesses, according to the government. Some say the number of deaths is 60,000 a year.
- In Malaysia, nearly 40,000 people died of smoking-related diseases in the last 5 years, now around 10,000 a year.
- In Vietnam, 40,000 citizens die every year due to diseases caused by smoking.
- In Canada, 37,000 people die from smoking every year, according to the Ministry of Health.
* In British Columbia, CAN, 6,000 people die each year from smoking.
* In the Alberta province, smoking claims 3,400 people's lives due to tobacco.
- In Egypt, there are 34,000 tobacco-related deaths each year.
- In South Africa, 20,000 adults die each year from smoking, according to the Medical Research Council (MRC).
- 33,000 Romanians die every year because of smoking. There were 6.5 million smokers aged 25 to 44 years old in Romania.
- In Australia, 19,000 deaths a year are caused by smoking. Roughly 20% of the Australian population smokes.
* Aboriginal life expectancy is 17 years less than non-indigenous Australians. Their high smoking rate gets part of the blame. Government officials are trying to address the issue.
* More than 3400 Queenslanders die because of smoking each year.
- In Saudi Arabia, 22,000 Saudis die of smoking related diseases every year, according to the Anti-Smoking Society.
- 13,000 Scots are killed every year by tobacco where about 30% of the population smokes. Up to 2,000 people die of passive smoking annually.
- In Ireland, 6,000 people die each year in Ireland from smoking-related diseases.
- In the Philippines, 20,000 Filipinos die from smoking-related illnesses each year (that's 2 every hour). Smoking is linked to 5 of the top 10 leading causes of deaths, according to Government data.
- In Indonesia, about a quarter of deaths in 2005 were from smoking and 80 percent of lung and respiratory cancer cases were due to smoking. About 220 million cigarettes were smoked by Indonesians in 2006.
- Some 6,000 Cubans die from smoking-related illnesses.
About 5,000 New Zealanders are killed by tobacco use each year.
- About 7 people die each day in Uruguay from smoking-related causes including lung cancer, emphysema and other illnesses, anti-smoking groups estimate.
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- In the Western Pacific region, tobacco kills more than 3000 people each day. It's the leading cause of death. The Western Pacific has one third of the world's smokers, the highest rate of male smokers and the fastest increase of smoking among children and young women.
- This year lung cancer, primarily caused by smoking, 1,351,000 people: 975,000 men and 376,000 women, the American Cancer Society, according to the American Cancer Society.
- An estimated 600 people die each year from passive smoking in Greece.
- Each day about 13,500 people worldwide die from smoking-related diseases
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Those are some facts about death from smoking around the world. Smoking, cigarettes and tobacco are international problems. Fortunately, many governments, organizations and people are stepping up to meet the challenge. We will see what happens. . .
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- 41 percent of men who smoked a pack or more a day died in middle age, compared to 14 percent of those who never smoked.
- 26 percent of women who smoked heavily died in middle age, compared to 9 percent of those who never smoked.
- 44.5 million Americans, currently smoke or about 21 percent of American adults, according to estimates from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- In 2007, 168,000 Americans will die of cancer due to tobacco use (American Cancer Society).
- Smoking-related deaths in NYC fell more than 11 percent from 8,722 to 7,744 during 2002 to 2006 (after the New York City smoking ban).
- Up to 2.5 million people in China will die annually by 2025, if growing tobacco use in China continues at current trends the Beijing Daily Messenger reported, citing World Health Organization (WHO) estimates.
- "One hour with a shisha (hookah) is equivalent to something between 100 and 200 cigarettes," Dr Fatima el-Awa, from the World Health Organization's (WHO) regional office said.
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