A recent World Health Organization (WHO) assessment shows that five times more than in 2007, there is now at least one best practice policy protecting 5.6 billion people, or 71% of the world’s population, from the lethal effects of tobacco.
Smoking rates have decreased in the 15 years since WHO’s MPOWER tobacco control initiatives went into effect everywhere. There would likely be 300 million more smokers in the globe now if this drop hadn’t occurred.
The recent Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic emphasizes the need to protect the general public from secondhand smoke and notes that approximately 40% of nations already have totally smoke-free indoor public spaces.
One of the effective policies included in MPOWER’s set of measures to assist nations in implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and reducing the tobacco pandemic is the prohibition of smoking in public places.
The annual death toll from secondhand smoke is around 1.3 million. All of these fatalities may have been avoided.
According to WHO, those who are exposed to secondhand smoke run the risk of developing heart disease, stroke, respiratory illnesses, type 2 diabetes, and cancer.
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