Cigarettes Can Kill 8 Million People per Year

Tobacco is estimated to kill 6 million people this year, including 600,000 second-hand smoke, because the government did not make significant efforts to get people to stop smoking. Similarly, concerns that delivered the world health organization (WHO), Tuesday (31 / 5).

As we all know the impact of smoking on health is not instantaneous, but it takes only a few years since the first visible smoke, so the WHO says the epidemic of disease and death caused by smoking has just begun. In 2030, the number of tobacco deaths could reach 8 million people per year.


The UN has also urged more countries to sign and implement the tobacco control treaty. If tobacco control efforts do not worry about dying from smoking will cause millions of deaths in the 21st century, and a dramatic increase from 100 million in the previous century.

Currently only 172 countries and the European Union who signed the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which was initiated in 2005 and requires states to take steps to limit the number of smokers, limiting exposure to passive smoking, and restrictions on cigarette advertising and promotion. Indonesia, including countries that have not ratified the FCTC.

WHO noted a decisive actions of some countries to limit the number of smokers, for example in Uruguay is now 80 percent of cigarette packs warning illustrated the dangers of smoking and the Chinese government recently issued a ban on smoking in public places like restaurants and bars.

While the FCTC can be a tool to control tobacco, much remains to be done. "It's not enough just to ratify the FCTC. Each country should strengthen policies and explicitly do so," said Margaret Chan, WHO director general.

Cigarettes will kill half of its users and by the WHO called the greatest public health threats facing the world. Cigarettes trigger lung cancer and chronic respiratory disease. Cigarettes are also a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, a major killer in the world.

The WHO also said that smoking causes disease is not contagious or epidemic of chronic diseases such as heart attack, stroke, and cancer, which accounts for 63 percent of deaths worldwide and 80 percent occur in poor countries.