By the year 2025, tobacco use will cause 10 million deaths per year, according to a new report published recently in The Lancet.
The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) – the largest of its kind – surveyed tobacco users in 14 low and middle-income countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Vietnam. They compared the information from these countries to to data from the U.S. and the U.K. Of the three billion people over the age of 15 covered in the survey, 852 million are tobacco users.