Number of smokers declines worldwide

london - The number of people worldwide smoke decreases proportionally, but in 2015 there were still 933 million. Tobacco addiction that year was responsible for 6.4 million deaths. According to a large study, the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015, published in the journal The Lancet.

Scientists used data from databases in 195 countries. On that basis, they found that, compared to the population growth, the number of smokers in the period 1990-2015 has decreased by a third to 15.3 percent. Men still grab most to the cigarette, pipe or cigar. One in four smokers are men, among women is 5.4 percent.

In some countries, including Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines, no decline was observed. In Russia, striking more women smoke.