The shocking Truth!

1   Around 5.4 million deaths a year are caused by tobacco.

2   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.

3   Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

4   An estimated 1.3 billion people are smokers worldwide (WHO).

5   Over 443,000 Americans (over 18 per cent of all deaths) die because of smoking each year. Second hand 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.

6   Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century if current smoking trends continue.

7   33 per cent to 50 per cent of all smokers are killed by their habit.

8   Smokers die on average 15 years sooner than non-smokers.

9   Between 33 per cent and 50 per cent of all smokers will die an average of 15 years sooner than non-smokers, the Tobacco Atlas from the World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Society believes.

10.  Around 100 million people died because of tobacco use in the 20th century.

11  10 years of life are robbed from smokers because they die 10 years earlier than non-smokers. Smoking also steals 10 years of physical functioning in old age (making smokers act really old), according to Live Fast, Die Young, Leave a Good-Looking Corpse by David M. Burns, MD (Archives of Internal Medicine).

12.  Smoking causes more death and disability than any single disease (World Health Organization).

13.  A "death clock" now follows the tobacco use death toll since October 1999, just under 40 million and counting. It was set up by the World Health Organization inOctober 2008.

14   650,000 Europeans die each year from tobacco-related diseases, EU figures reveal.

15   In India, about 900,000 Indians a year die from smoking-related diseases, that are nearly one in 10 of all deaths in India. Half of Indian males use tobacco and it is becoming more popular with younger people.

* Nearly 6 lakh people die from bidi-smoking every year in India, according to the Caught in a Death Trap: A Study on Bidi Rollers of West Bengal and Gujarat.

16.  In Russia, smoking kills between 400,000 and 500,000 Russians every year from smoking ailments.

17.  In Japan, smoking is the leading cause of death and is responsible for 20% of all cancers. 50 per cent of men and 14 per cent of women smoke.

18   In Indonesia, an estimated 200,000 people die each year of smoking-related diseases.

* About a quarter of deaths in 2005 were from smoking and 80 per cent of lung and respiratory cancer cases were due to smoking.

* About 220 million cigarettes were smoked by Indonesians in 2006.

19   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.

20   In the UK, 90,000 people die from smoking each year. (6,000 people in Wales are killed by smoking every year).

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