According to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco use in Canada and globally continues to decline. Almost one in five adults worldwide used tobacco in 2022, down from one in three in 2000.
In Canada, tobacco use has declined from 28.3% of adults in 2000 to just 11.4% in 2022.
Dr Rudiger Kerch, director of the WHO's Department of Health Promotion, said in a statement: "There has been good progress in tobacco control in recent years, but it is still not satisfactory.
   According to the Geneva-based World Health Organization, Southeast Asia currently has the highest percentage of tobacco users at 26.5 percent of adults, followed by Europe at 25.3 percent. While both rates are declining, WHO expects Europe to have the highest percentage of users by 2030.
The World Health Organization notes that smoking rates among women in Europe are more than double the global average and are declining more slowly than other regions. Currently, 82% of the 1.25 billion tobacco users in the world are men.
The report explains: “The highest number of female smokers in any WHO region is 65 million people living in the European region, accounting for more than 40% of all female smokers in the world. High-income countries have the highest proportion of female smokers, with 50 of all female smokers, or 76 million smokers.


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