Tobacco fact sheet from WHO providing key facts and information on surveillance, second-hand smoke, quitting, picture warnings, ad bans, taxes, WHO response.
All forms of tobacco are harmful, and there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco. Cigarette smoking is the most common form of tobacco use worldwide. Other tobacco products include waterpipe tobacco, various smokeless tobacco products, cigars, cigarillos, roll-your-own tobacco, pipe tobacco, bidis and kreteks.
Although tobacco use is a major public health problem, tobacco products are one of the few openly available commercial products that are virtually unregulated in some countries. They are also the only legally available products that kill up to half of its regular users when consumed as recommended by manufacturers of these products.The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC ...
These are tobacco products that produce smoke that is inhaled by users and non-users, when exposed. They include manufactured cigarettes, roll-your-own-cigarettes, shisha (waterpipe), cigars, cigarillos, bids, kreteks and heated tobacco products
Tobacco use is the world's single biggest cause of preventable death and noncommunicable disease. Up to half of all smokers will die from tobacco-related illnesses such as cancer or lung and heart disease.
Tobacco is the world’s leading cause of preventable death, killing nearly 8 million persons every year. It claims around 3.1 million lives in the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia (SEA) Region alone, which is also amongst the largest producers and consumers of tobacco products. India and Indonesia are among the top five producers of tobacco in the world.