Tobacco use shrinking despite industry efforts to attract young people: WHO

The number of adult tobacco users is steadily dropping, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, but warned that Big Tobacco was working hard to attract young people. DrRuedigerKrech, Director of the WHO's health promotion department said "We have 1.25 billion people still smoking.

That is the last figure we have from the Global Trends report that we're releasing today. But that also means that we have 19 million less smokers than we had two years ago. That is the first time that we see such a decline." "Your actions in the tobacco industry, your actions will cause death.

They are killing. And they continue to do everything possible to undermine the countries' very good efforts. In 2022, about one in five adults around the world were smokers or consumed other tobacco products, compared to one in every three in 2000, the UN health agency said.