Smoking causes death and suffering to adults more than any other toxic substances in the environment, this is known long ago.
William Chandler says: "It is known that so far no country has taken effective steps against smoking commensurate with the amount of damage it causes.
Tobacco use worldwide has increased by nearly 75% over the last two decades.
The protection of non-smokers from cigarette smoke requires a significant change in the society's treatment of smoking, and this also helps to reduce its direct harm to smokers themselves.
The world's loss of life is caused by smoking to 2.5 million people a year, and smoking kills people around the world every 13 seconds, yet humanity consumes about 100 billion dollars a year.
The cost of tobacco advertising in the world amounted to in one year about 3 billion dollars.
A World Health Organization (WHO) report said $ 50 million was enough to vaccinate five million children in the third world, dying each year for lack of polio, cough and diphtheria vaccines.
If the industrialized countries suffer from enormous problems with the use of tobacco, with its great potential, the suffering of the impoverished third world, most of whom are suffering from poverty and endemic diseases, is undoubtedly greater than the industrialized countries.
Cigarettes are responsible for 83% of lung cancer cases, and 90% of people with lung cancer die from their illness within five years, the Association for Cancer Prevention said.
Smoking is an epidemic of 2.1% per year, more than the world's population.
Nearly 2.5 million smokers die each year from heart disease and lung cancer for smoking.
Lung cancer is an epidemic caused by smoking
