mobanmarketTobacco kills almost 7 million people across the world every year and nearly a million of them are not even smokers.
It also costs the world about $1.4 trillion annually in healthcare costs related to tobacco-attributable diseases and in lost productivity due to death and illness.
The sobering statistics on deaths are estimates by the WHO while the costs estimates are from a study published last year and authored by Mark Goodchild and Edouard Tursan d’Espaignet of the WHO and Nigar Nargis of the American Cancer Society.