France is the 19th country with the most smokers in relation to its population. In our country, there are more than 30% of smokers among 18-75 year olds, far behind the 48% of tobacco users in Nauru, an island in Micronesia.
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More than three out of ten French people aged 18 to 75 say they smoke occasionally. A quarter of French people are even daily smokers, according to the latest report from Public Health France. And yet, the French population is far from being the one where people smoke the most. It is on the island of Nauru, in Micronesia, that the rate of smokers is the highest: 48.5% of the population smokes, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). Burma and Kiribati, an Oceanian archipelago, complete the podium with respectively 44.1% and 40.6% of smokers.
On its website, the World Health Organization recalls that tobacco is “the greatest threat to public health facing the world” and that it kills 8 million people a year, 1.2 million of them through passive smoking. According to the latest data from 2020, 36.7% of men on the planet smoke, compared to only 7.8% of women.
9.5 million cigarettes per minute
In total, over one year, according to The Tobacco Atlas, more than 5,000 billion cigarettes are consumed worldwide, or 13 billion cigarettes per day. This means that every minute, worldwide, 9.5 million cigarettes are smoked.
According to a study published in the journal Nature in 2009, tobacco claimed 100 million victims in the 20th century. This toll exceeds that of the two world wars combined.
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