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What will be the biggest killer of humanity by 2030?

a) Tuberculosis.
b) AIDS.
c) Malaria.
d) tobacco.
d) Murder.

Tobacco is the second leading cause of death in the world today, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It is he who is responsible for the death of every tenth inhabitant of the Earth, that is, approximately five million deaths annually - while cancer kills seven million people a year.

If the numbers continue to grow at the same pace, by 2030 tobacco - and a whole range of smoking-related diseases - will become the most brutal killer of mankind, sending ten million people to the grave a year.

There are about 1,3 billion smokers in the world today. Half of them (650 million people) will sooner or later die from tobacco.

Developing countries will suffer the most. Forty-eight percent of smokers live in middle- and low-income countries, where the number of smokers has been steadily increasing since 1970.

In contrast, the number of male smokers in the US fell from 55% in the 1950s to 28% in the 1990s. In the Middle East, where half of adult men smoke, tobacco use, by contrast, increased by 24% between 1990 and 1997.

The economic consequences of smoking in Third World countries are no less horrendous than the impact on human health. In Niger, Viet Nam and Bangladesh, for example, poor families spend a third more on tobacco than on food.

Until the 1940s, science did not link diseases to smoking, and in the United Kingdom the link between tobacco and cancer was officially recognized by the government only in 1964, after a report prepared by the Royal College of Medicine. It took another seven years before health warnings first appeared on cigarette packs.

Despite thirty years of steadily accumulating facts, one in four adults in the United Kingdom (13 million people) continues to smoke regularly (although 70% of them are trying in every possible way to give up the bad habit).

In 2004, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan not only officially banned smoking in public places, but was also the first country in the world to completely abolish the sale of tobacco products.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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