Thursday, 19 Dec 2019 03:00 PM MYT
The change in global smoking trends shows that governments' efforts to control tobacco are working “to save lives, protect health, beat tobacco”, the WHO said in a report.“For many years now we had witnessed a steady rise in the number of males using deadly tobacco products.
In 2018, some 60 million fewer people around the world smoked or used tobacco compared to 2000, the WHO's report said, with the overall number of tobacco users falling to 1.337 billion people globally in 2018 from 1.397 billion in 2000.
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