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Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action
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Background: Despite compelling evidence on the health hazards of tobacco products accumulated over the past 70 years, smoking remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Policy action to control smoking requires timely, comprehensive, and comparable evidence on smoking levels within and across countries. This study provides a recent assessment of that evidence based on the methods used in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study. Methods: We estimated annual prevalence of, and mortality attributable to smoking any form of tobacco from 1970 to 2020 and 1990–2020, respectively, using the methods and data sources (including 3431 surveys and studies) from the GBD collaboration. We modelled annual prevalence of current and former smoking, distributions of cigarette-equivalents per smoker per day, pack-years for current smoking, years since cessation for former smokers and estimated population-attributable fractions due to smoking. Results: Globally, adult smoking prevalence in 2020 was 32.6% (32.2% to 33.1%) and 6.5% (6.3% to 6.7%) among men and women, respectively. 1.18 (0.94 to 1.47) billion people regularly smoke tobacco, causing 7.0 (2.0 to 11.2) million deaths in 2020. Smoking prevalence has declined by 27.2% (26.0% to 28.3%) for men since 1990, and by 37.9% (35.3% to 40.1%) for women. Declines have been largest in the higher sociodemographic countries, falling by more than 40% in some high-income countries, and also in several Latin American countries, notably Brazil, where prevalence has fallen by 70% since 1990. Smoking prevalence for women has declined substantially in some countries, including Nepal, the Netherlands and Denmark, and remains low throughout Asia and Africa. Conversely, there has been little decline in smoking in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with over half of all men continuing to smoke in large populations in Asia (China, Indonesia), as well as the Pacific Islands. Implications: While global smoking prevalence has fallen, smoking is still common and causes a significant health burden worldwide. The unequal pace of declines across the globe is shifting the epidemic progressively to LMICs. Smoking is likely to remain a leading cause of preventable death throughout this century unless smoking cessation efforts can significantly and rapidly reduce the number of smokers, particularly in Asia. Funding: XD and EG received funding through grant projects from Bloomberg Philanthropies (funding no. 66-9468) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (funding no. 63-3452).
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This Global Burden of Disease analysis estimates that global adult smoking prevalence in 2020 was 32.6% among men and 6.5% among women, with 1.18 billion smokers and 7.0 million smoking-attributable deaths. Although prevalence has declined since 1990, the epidemic is shifting toward low- and middle-income countries, especially in Asia.
Key findings
- In 2020, adult smoking prevalence was 32.6% (32.2% to 33.1%) among men and 6.5% (6.3% to 6.7%) among women; 1.18 (0.94 to 1.47) billion people regularly smoked tobacco, causing 7.0 (2.0 to 11.2) million deaths.
- Since 1990, smoking prevalence declined by 27.2% (26.0% to 28.3%) for men and 37.9% (35.3% to 40.1%) for women; declines were largest in higher sociodemographic countries, falling by more than 40% in some high-income countries, and Brazil’s prevalence fell by 70% since 1990.
- There has been little decline in most low- and middle-income countries, with more than half of adult men smoking in large Asian populations such as China (52%) and Indonesia, as well as Pacific Island countries; female prevalence remains low throughout Asia and Africa.
- By 2020, countries classified by epidemic phase were distributed for men as less than 10% incipient, 42% phase two, 25% phase three, and about one-quarter phase four; for women the respective distribution was 40/31/13/16.
Methods
- Using GBD 2020 methods, the study estimated annual prevalence of smoked tobacco use from 1970 to 2020 and attributable mortality/DALYs from 1990 to 2020 for 204 countries and territories by 5-year age group and sex; secondhand smoke, smokeless tobacco, electronic cigarettes, vaping products, and heated tobacco products were excluded.
- Data included 2808 nationally or subnationally representative surveys covering 200 of 204 countries, 623 studies for dose-response risk estimation, and consumption data from Euromonitor, the US Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Agriculture Organization; current and former smoking prevalence was modelled with spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression, and population-attributable fractions were calculated.
- Estimates were also provided by quintile of Sociodemographic Index, with countries grouped by their 2020 SDI; analyses were performed in R and Python.
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- The paper states that data quality and availability limitations, including data gaps and inconsistencies, lead to substantial uncertainty in trends and patterns of smoking prevalence and consumption in some countries, reducing the policy utility of the estimates.
- The paper notes that it used the direct method to estimate population-attributable fractions, whereas an indirect method has also been used; it reports that total burden due to smoking did not change significantly using different methods.
- Evident from the text: the analysis excludes secondhand smoke exposure, smokeless tobacco, electronic cigarettes, vaping products, and heated tobacco products, so the findings cover smoked tobacco use only; countries were grouped by 2020 SDI even though SDI can change over time.
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“We used a new meta-regression method 27 to re-estimate the dose-response risks of current smoking for 36 health outcomes caused by smoking, based on an updated systematic review of literature.3 4 We included 623 studies”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Dose-response risk curves
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“Smoking prevalence has declined by 27.2% (26.0% to 28.3%) for men since 1990, and by 37.9% (35.3% to 40.1%) for women.”
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“Globally, adult smoking prevalence in 2020 was 32.6% (32.2% to 33.1%) and 6.5% (6.3% to 6.7%) among men and women, respectively.”
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“Globally, adult smoking prevalence in 2020 was 32.6% (32.2% to 33.1%) and 6.5% (6.3% to 6.7%) among men and women, respectively.”
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“1.18 (0.94 to 1.47) billion people regularly smoke tobacco, causing 7.0 (2.0 to 11.2) million deaths in 2020.”
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“1.18 (0.94 to 1.47) billion people regularly smoke tobacco, causing 7.0 (2.0 to 11.2) million deaths in 2020.”
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“In most high SDI countries, as well as in Russia, Brazil and Mexico, youth smoking prevalence among men declined by more than 10 percentage points over the past 20 years.”
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“For men, prevalence has declined by more than 10 percentage points in a number of countries since 2000 including Canada, Russia, the UK, Australia, Brazil and India”
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“Conversely, there has been little decline in smoking in most low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) with over half of all men continuing to smoke in large populations in Asia (China, Indonesia), as well as the Pacific Islands.”
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“Overall, less than half of all countries (93) or territories were similarly classified based on male and female prevalence.”
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“smoking is the leading cause of disease burden in many countries.[3][4][5][6][7]”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > INTRODUCTION
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The Results (Global attributable burden; page unavailable) say tobacco was the leading risk factor for attributable DALYs in seven of 21 regions. The National findings report substantial smoking-attributable burden in many countries, but do not establish that smoking ranked first in those countries; the claim shifts a regional ranking to a national one. (LLM, conf=0.82)
- Partly supportedcites [4] Reitsma, 2021, Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the global burden of disease study 2019, The Lancet sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page not available in our copy) says smoking was the leading risk factor for deaths and DALYs among males globally. The Results report substantial smoking-attributable burden across countries, but do not establish that smoking ranks first for disease burden in many countries across the whole population. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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“Most importantly, they strongly suggest that tobacco control measures, particularly when implemented comprehensively, work, collectively leading to a 27.2% (95% CI: 26.0% to 28.3%) global decline in smoking prevalence among men since 1990, and a much larger decline, 37.9% (95% CI: 35.3% to 40.1%) among women.31 32”
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The Main section says tobacco-control policies reduce smoking prevalence and estimates that stronger combined policies would have produced further reductions. But its reported global declines are 7.7% for men and 15.2% for women between 2009 and 2017; it does not substantiate the cited 27.2% and 37.9% declines since 1990 or attribute those figures to the policies. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“This study complies with the Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting recommendations.30”
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“Globally, 1.18 (95% CI: 0.94 to 1.47) billion people in 2020 regularly smoked some form of tobacco, causing 7.0 (95% CI: 2.0 to 11.2) million deaths, or about one in seven of all deaths that occurred that year.4”
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The Abstract Findings report 1.14 billion current smokers and 7.69 million smoking-attributable deaths in 2019, not the claimed 1.18 billion and 7.0 million in 2020. The Results report that smoking accounted for 13.6% of all deaths in 2019, supporting the approximate ‘one in seven’ share, but not its attribution to 2020. Page numbers were not supplied in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“By 2020, the fraction of deaths due to smoking had declined to 15%-19% in the USA, Canada, the UK and most of Western Europe, and even lower, to 10%-14%, in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Australia and New Zealand.”
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“Parts of North Africa (Egypt, Libya, Iran) and East Asia have seen some increase in male prevalence since 2000, as has Botswana.”
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“Eighty-five (42%) countries have moved to phase two, with broad representation across all regions, indicating how pervasive the epidemic is.”
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“From smoking levels in excess of 40% among men around 1970 in many high SDI countries, prevalence has more than halved over the past 50 years and has declined substantially in Latin America.”
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“Conversely, with few exceptions, there has been little decline in smoking in most low-and middle-SDI countries, with more than half the adult male population in large populations of Asia (China, Indonesia) and Pacific Island countries smoking regularly.”
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“In 2020, more than half of all adult men in parts of the Indo-Pacific region (Micronesia, Kiribati, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands) were smokers, as was the case for Armenia, Mongolia, Jordan (54%-56%) and China (52%).”
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“Only 33 countries (16% of total) have transitioned to phase four with comparatively low (<20%) prevalence, including the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and all of Scandinavia, except Denmark.”
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“By 2000, smoking rates in the USA and several other OECD countries fell below 30%, and fell below 20% by 2020, except for a handful of countries in Europe, including Spain, France, Switzerland, Poland and Hungary.”
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“Female prevalence data suggest that 40% of countries, half of them in sub-Saharan Africa, are still in the incipient stage of the epidemic, with very low prevalence.”
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“By far the largest declines in consumption have occurred in the high SDI group, falling by about 50%, compared with 25%-30% in other SDI groups.”
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“Smoking also claimed 15%-20% of deaths among women at these ages in the USA, Canada and Ireland, and 10%-15% in Australia, where the impact of smoking control measures was already apparent.”
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“female prevalence has not changed significantly since 2000 in most countries, or declined by less than 10 percentage points.”
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“Smoking rates among women in the more high SDI countries never attained the levels of men, typically lagging male smoking by two to three decades.”
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“Female prevalence was highest (34%-40%) in Pacific Island countries (Nauru, Micronesia, Kiribati), but less than 2%-3% for women in several countries in Africa, as well as Tajikistan and Sri Lanka”
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“All are low or low-middle SDI countries, including 10 in sub-Saharan Africa, and 6 Caribbean countries, including Haiti and the Dominican Republic.”
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“One-quarter of countries (50) have reduced male smoking prevalence to below 25% (phase four), primarily the Anglo-Saxon nations, all of Scandinavia, including Denmark, as well as Singapore, Belgium and the Netherlands, where smoking rates had been among the highest in the world.”
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“By 2000, male prevalence had already declined substantially in many countries, but remained high in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, China, Spain (among Western Europe) and parts of Latin America.”
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“Typically, smoking currently causes 10%-14% of female deaths in the USA, Canada and Europe, but remains low as a cause of deathless than 5%-throughout Asia and Africa.”
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“In 2020, consumption among men was highest in Southeast and East Asia, rising sharply between 1970 and 1990, followed by modest declines.”
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“had fallen to less than 1 in 10 deaths in Mexico and tropical Latin America, and remained low in sub-Saharan Africa.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Original research
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“Prevalence has also declined among other sociodemographic categories, less so in the high-middle sociodemographic group.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > DISCUSSION
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“Prevalence has started to decline in 52 countries (25%) classified into phase three, including 10 from Southeast Asia (including China), and 5 in the Pacific, including Fiji and Tonga.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Original research
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“Onequarter of these are Pacific Island countries, another quarter include Russia, and Central and Eastern European countries, and 10 countries are in Latin America.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Original research
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“The most noticeable change was an increase in the fraction of former smokers, most of whom were former daily smokers.”
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“Among 27 phase three countries, 17 are high-income Western European nations, as well as Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, and 8 countries from Central/Eastern Europe.”
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“Female consumption is highest in the high SDI group, being about twice the level in other SDI categories, although consumption levels have fallen by about 60% since 1970.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > RESULTS
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“There has been little change over the past few decades in the number of cigarette-equivalents smoked per smoker per day, except for the high SDI category-although this decline appears to have stalled during the past 5 years-and the modest but steady increase in consumption in the high-middle SDI group”
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“Among women, youth smoking prevalence also declined by more than 10 percentage points in the majority of high SDI countries, but by less than 10 percentage points in Japan and Eastern and Central European countries.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > RESULTS
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“Prevalence fell further by 2020, particularly in Latin America and India, with levels below 30%.”
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“Among women, smoking prevalence in the high SDI group has fallen by about 50% since 1970, with little change evident for all other SDI categories.”
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“Interestingly, France and Portugal, alone among high-income countries, are at phase two, and six phase two countries are from sub-Saharan Africa.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Original research
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“Thirteen Pacific Island countries or territories, 17 in sub-Saharan Africa, 15 from Central/Eastern Europe, 10 from Latin America and 16 from the Middle East/North African region have been classified phase two, as well as Indonesia and Timor-Leste, with the highest smoking rates in the world, and a handful of high-income countries, including Austria, Portugal, Cyprus and Chile.”
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“Another 12 are from Central/Eastern Europe, including Russia, Hungary and Poland, and 2 (Mexico and Cuba) from Latin America.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Original research
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“male consumption is highest in the high-middle SDI group, being about twice as high as for other SDI categories.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > RESULTS
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“Another 31% (64 countries) have moved into phase two, with rising prevalence and little evidence of decline.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Original research
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“cigarette smoking is estimated to have caused over 100 million deaths last century and will cause over 1 billion deaths this century unless more effective measures are taken to end the tobacco epidemic.19”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > INTRODUCTION
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [19] Peto R , Lopez AD . Future worldwide health effects of current smoking patterns. Jossey-Bass, 2001. Available: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:114032 [Accessed 29 Sep 2021].
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“While global smoking prevalence has fallen, smoking is still common and causes a significant health burden worldwide.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Abstract
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“we mapped all non-reference case definitions to our reference case definitions.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Prevalence of smoked tobacco use
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“Our findings should be interpreted taking into consideration the study's limitations, primarily related to data quality and availability.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > DISCUSSION
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“Smoking is likely to remain a leading cause of preventable death throughout this century unless smoking cessation efforts can significantly and rapidly reduce the number of smokers, particularly in Asia.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Abstract
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“This is much less evident among the next sociodemographic category (high-middle), although this may well reflect compositional issues since the experience of China would dominate this category, at least in more recent years.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > DISCUSSION
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“We produced 1000 draws from the posterior distribution of ST-GPR and used the 25th and the 975th draws to construct uncertainty intervals around the final estimates.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Prevalence of smoked tobacco use
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“Predictions of 1 billion deaths from smoking this century unless there is urgent and substantial progress with cessation strategies 19 highlight the enormous toll of avoidable mortality that smoking will cause, in the absence of effective national policy responses, especially in high prevalence countries.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > DISCUSSION
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [19] Peto R , Lopez AD . Future worldwide health effects of current smoking patterns. Jossey-Bass, 2001. Available: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:114032 [Accessed 29 Sep 2021].
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“systematic data quality checks were performed to identify and exclude implausible or inconsistent data.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Prevalence of smoked tobacco use
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“Smoking also claimed 15%-20% of deaths among women at these ages in the USA, Canada and Ireland, and 10%-15% in Australia, where the impact of smoking control measures was already apparent.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Original research
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The addiction will eventually kill half of all smokers.
“assuming that the addiction will eventually kill half of all smokers”
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“Among 27 phase three countries, 17 are high-income Western European nations, as well as Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, and 8 countries from Central/Eastern Europe.”
§ Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action > Original research
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“Although many measures and policy actions have been taken within and across countries (22, 23), the leading cause of CRDs mortality and DALY was smoking globally in GBD 2019.”
BackgroundDisease burden, risk factors, and trends of lip, oral cavity, pharyngeal cancers: A global analysis
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Tobacco and COPD: presenting the World Health Organization (WHO) Tobacco Knowledge Summary
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“Although smoking rates have fallen globally but still smoking is likely to remain a leading cause of preventable death throughout this century unless smoking cessation efforts can significantly and rapidly reduce the number of people who smoke, particularly in the developing countries [128].”
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“101,102 Prior research has examined smoking levels stratified by sex solely, and this hampers straightforward comparisons, but our estimations might not be so far from those observed previously.”
BackgroundTobacco Use in Korea: Current Epidemiology and Public Health Issues
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Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health
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Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems (TDDS): Recent Advances and Failure Modes
Ghaferi, M., Alavi, S. E., Phan, K. K. T., Maibach, H. I., & Mohammed, Y. (2024) · Molecular Pharmaceutics · doi:10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.4c00211 · Cited by 59
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The impact of water pollution on the health of older people
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“In response to the global shift in smoking trends, electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have emerged as a popular alternative to traditional tobacco products [9].”
BackgroundThe rat as an animal model in chronic wound research: An update
Ghanbari, M., Salkovskiy, Y., & Carlson, M. A. (2024) · Life Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.lfs.2024.122783 · Cited by 52
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Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients
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The effect of alcohol use on smoking cessation: A systematic review
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Sex-Dependent Differences in Colorectal Cancer: With a Focus on Obesity
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Associations of smoking with early- and late-onset colorectal cancer
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“Hence, although smoking most likely increases the risk of EOCRC, trends in smoking are unlikely to explain the rise in EOCRC incidence rates in these countries (28).”
BackgroundInfluentialDeciphering the roles of aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) in regulating carcinogenesis
Chong, Z. X., Yong, C. Y., Ong, H. K., Yeap, S. K., & Ho, W. Y. (2023) · Toxicology · doi:10.1016/j.tox.2023.153596 · Cited by 32
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“2) million deaths.(43) Harmful use of alcohol causes 3 million deaths annually and is attributable to 5.”
Martínez, R., Soliz, P. N., Campbell, N. R. C., Lackland, D. T., Whelton, P. K., & Ordúñez, P. (2022) · Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública · doi:10.26633/rpsp.2022.143 · Cited by 27
“Good examples are reducing tobacco consumption (22) and improving hypertension management (23).”
BackgroundSoleimani, F., Dobaradaran, S., Mohebbi, G., Vazirizadeh, A., De-la-Torre, G. E., Saeedi, R., Nabipour, I., Novotny, T. E., & Schmidt, T. C. (2023) · Chemosphere · doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138036 · Cited by 27
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“For example, Dai et al. [9] investigated the evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century.”
BackgroundInfluentialMonshi, S. S., Arbaein, T. J., Alzhrani, A. A., Alzahrani, A., Alharbi, K. K. S., Alfahmi, A. A., Alqahatani, M., Alzahrani, A. H., Yaqoob, A., Almazroua, A., et al. (2023) · Tobacco Induced Diseases · doi:10.18332/tid/159735 · Cited by 25
On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies
Spurrett, D. (2024) · Topoi · doi:10.1007/s11245-023-09962-x · Cited by 25
“More than four and a half trillion cigarettes have been consumed annually for over a decade (Reitsma et al. 2021; Dai et al. 2022).”
A scoping review of the toxicity and health impact of IQOS
Ghazi, S. I., Song, M., & Hellani, A. E. (2024) · Tobacco Induced Diseases · doi:10.18332/tid/188867 · Cited by 24
“Smoking cigarettes remains at alarmingly high rates worldwide (1.18 billion regular smokers) and is responsible for the annual death of 7 million casualties 1 .”
BackgroundInfluentialBrandariz, J. R., Rumgay, H., Ayo-Yusuf, O. A., Edwards, R., Islami, F., Liu, S., Pérez‐Ríos, M., Corrêa, P. C. R. P., Ruano‐Raviña, A., & Soerjomataram, I. (2024) · The Lancet Public Health · doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(24)00185-3 · Cited by 24
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“Studies have shown that men are more likely to be addicted to smoking than women, which further aggravate the risk of smoking on head and neck cancer in men [12,13].”
Rey‐Brandariz, J., Ruano‐Raviña, A., Santiago-Pérez, M. I., et al. (2024) · Medicina Clínica · doi:10.1016/j.medcli.2023.11.015 · Cited by 24
Tobacco control in low-income and middle-income countries: findings from WHO FCTC investment cases
Tauras, J. A. (2024) · Tobacco Control · doi:10.1136/tc-2024-058717 · Cited by 24
Influence of biological sex in inflammatory bowel diseases
Tshikudi, D. M., Bernstein, C. N., Mishra, S., Ghia, J., & Armstrong, H. (2025) · Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology · doi:10.1038/s41575-025-01038-y · Cited by 27
“The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries and Risk Factors Study reported that the proportion of adult smoking differs markedly between sexes, with a higher prevalence of smokers amongst men than amongst women (32.6% (95% CI 32.2–33.1) and 6.5% (95% CI 6.3–6.7), respectively) 52 .”
InfluentialPreoperative optimization in hernia surgery: are we really helping or are we just stalling?
Fafaj, A., de Figueiredo, S. M. P., Rosen, M. J., et al. (2024) · Hernia · doi:10.1007/s10029-024-02962-9 · Cited by 22
“Despite growing evidence that smoking is a leading cause of death, around 33% of adult males and 7% of adult females are active smoker worldwide [16].”
BackgroundMahajan, U. M., Oehrle, B., Goni, E., Strobel, O., Kaiser, J., Grützmann, R., Werner, J., Friess, H., Gress, T. M., Seufferlein, T., et al. (2025) · The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology · doi:10.1016/s2468-1253(25)00056-1 · Cited by 24
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Cardiovascular contributions to dementia: Examining sex differences and female‐specific factors
Alexander, M. W., Paterson, J., Arvanitakis, Z., Black, S. E., Casaletto, K. B., Christakis, M. K., Einstein, G., Galea, L. A. M., Harwood, L., Kirkham, A. A., et al. (2025) · Alzheimer s & Dementia · doi:10.1002/alz.70610 · Cited by 23
“109 While smoking prevalence is lower among adult women than adult men, 110 women tend to experience higher levels of cigarette dependence 111 and face greater challenges quitting.”
Trends in the global burden of vision loss among the older adults from 1990 to 2019
Yin, J., Jiang, B., Zhao, T., et al. (2024) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1324141 · Cited by 21
“Additionally, lifestyle factors such as smoking (26–28) and exposure to sunlight (29–31) have been shown to increase the risk of cataracts and AMD, particularly in high-middle SDI regions like Eastern Europe and High-income Asia Pacific (32).”
BackgroundInfluentialSystemic, Lifestyle and Environmental Modifying Factors in the Pathogenesis of Periodontitis
Groeger, S. E., Yuxi, Z., Yong, J., Wang, L., Ruf, S., & Meyle, J. (2025) · Journal of Periodontal Research · doi:10.1111/jre.70003 · Cited by 26
Policy view: worldwide patterns of tobacco use with recommendations for tobacco control
McHardy, J., Marquizo, A. B., Bettcher, D. W., & Gakidou, E. E. (2025) · The Lancet Respiratory Medicine · doi:10.1016/s2213-2600(25)00172-9 · Cited by 26
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Prevalence, Incidence, and Clinical Characteristics of Thyroid Eye Disease in Japan
Watanabe, N., Kozaki, A., Inoue, K., Narimatsu, H., Shinohara, M., & LoPresti, M. (2023) · Journal of the Endocrine Society · doi:10.1210/jendso/bvad148 · Cited by 19
“%) reported for the same year, the rate is similar to that reported in many developed countries for which many reported smoking rates are below 20% [39].”
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“Despite advances in tobacco control and decreasing global smoking prevalence, the MENA region has witnessed a substantial increase in the number of smokers over the past few decades [6].”
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“Paying attention to the published data, 1.18 billion people regularly smoke tobacco (Dai et al., 2022) , and the Institute for Health Metric and Evaluation (IHME) estimates that in 2017 about 13% of deaths worldwide were the result of direct smoking, and further 2% were estimated to be the result…”
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Doggett, A., Belisario, K. L., McDonald, A. J., DeJesus, J., Vandehei, E., Gillard, J., Lee, L. M., & MacKillop, J. M. (2025) · International Journal of Drug Policy · doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104782 · Cited by 24
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“Nationally representative data on tobacco use are essential to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of national tobacco control policies [2,3].”
BackgroundPublic Support for Tobacco Endgame Policies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Kim, H., GARTNER, C. E., Edwards, R., Puljević, C., Morphett, K., Kim, D. H., Chun, H.-R., Ekdahl, M., & Kang, H. (2024) · Nicotine & Tobacco Research · doi:10.1093/ntr/ntae149 · Cited by 20
“[66 ] Those in the earlier stages of the epidemic are progressing to implementation of incremental conventional measures.”
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Vision for tobacco endgame in Korea: suggestions for countries with endgame aspirations
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Cigar, Pipe, and Smokeless Tobacco Use and Cardiovascular Outcomes From Cross Cohort Collaboration
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Pharmacotherapy in Tobacco Cessation: A Narrative Review
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Towards stronger tobacco control policies to curb the smoking epidemic in Spain
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“Smoking is an epidemic in many countries with high prevalence in certain vulnerable groups, such as minors [1, 4].”
BackgroundHow and why do financial incentives contribute to helping people stop smoking? A realist review
Siersbaek, R., Kavanagh, P. M., Ford, J. A., Burke, S., & Parker, S. (2024) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-024-17967-3 · Cited by 17
“…implementation of tobacco control measures has enabled many more developed countries to move into the later stages of the tobacco epidemic, but progress is leaving some population groups behind as smoking prevalence among deprived populations remain higher than among those with more means [11, 12].”
Young users of electronic cigarettes exhibit reduced cardiorespiratory fitness
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Improving Wastewater-Based Tobacco Use Estimates Using Anabasine
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“However, this trend has not been reflected in the Arab world, where tobacco smoking has continued to rise significantly over the past half-century [104].”
Tang, S., Meng, J., Zhao, X., & Sun, W. (2024) · Archives of Medical Science · doi:10.5114/aoms/182886 · Cited by 13
“The ten countries with the highest number of smokers (accounting for nearly two-thirds of the global smoking population) were China, India, Indonesia, the United States, Russia, Bangladesh, Japan, Turkey, Vietnam, and the Philippines [9].”
BackgroundPluym, N., Burkhardt, T., Scherer, G., & Scherer, M. (2024) · Harm Reduction Journal · doi:10.1186/s12954-024-01047-1 · Cited by 14
“In our view, this bias needs to be tackled in future research, as cessation efficacy of a product category can differ between regions due to varying use prevalence and cultural habits [86, 87].”
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“25 Interestingly, we did not find a decline in the incidence of COPD in Scotland or NI.”
Health effects of e-cigarettes and their use for smoking cessation from a vascular perspective
Krabbe, B., Espinola–Klein, C., Malyar, N. M., et al. (2023) · VASA · doi:10.1024/0301-1526/a001056 · Cited by 13
“While the proportion of smokers has been declining over the past two decades globally (Figure 1 A) [ 5 ], the proportion of e-cigarette use has been steadily increasing in recent years (Figure 1 B) .”
BackgroundEl-Azab, G., Elkhouly, E., Abouyoussef, R. A. M., & Nagdy, H. M. (2025) · Clinical and Experimental Medicine · doi:10.1007/s10238-025-01922-6 · Cited by 12
“The World Health Organization estimates that approximately one-third of the world's male population smokes tobacco, and cigarette smoking was responsible for an estimated 100 million deaths worldwide in the twentieth century [1].”
Han, M., Seo, D.-H., Kim, Y., Seo, H. G., Cho, S., Lee, S., Lim, S., Kaai, S., Quah, A. C. K., Yan, M., et al. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph191710839 · Cited by 12
“While the global smoking prevalence rate has slowly decreased, smoking remains a public health problem in many parts of the world, including the Republic of Korea (South Korea, hereafter) [2,3].”
BackgroundTasdighi, E., Jha, K. K., Dardari, Z., Osuji, N., Rajan, T., Boakye, E., Hall, M. E., Rodríguez, C. J., Stokes, A. C., Shahawy, O. E., et al. (2023) · Tobacco Induced Diseases · doi:10.18332/tid/166517 · Cited by 12
Variation of PM2.5 Redox Potential and Toxicity During Monsoon in Delhi, India
Li, C., Hakkim, H., Sinha, V., Sinha, B., Pardo, M., Cai, D.-M., Reicher, N., Chen, J.-M., Hao, K., & Rudich, Y. (2024) · ACS ES&T Air · doi:10.1021/acsestair.3c00096 · Cited by 11
Tobacco use, trauma exposure and PTSD: a systematic review
Shevorykin, A., Hyland, B. M., Robles, D., Ji, M., Vantucci, D., Bensch, L., Thorner, H., Marion, M., Liskiewicz, A., Carl, E. M., et al. (2024) · Health Psychology Review · doi:10.1080/17437199.2024.2330896 · Cited by 17
“Despite signi fi cant reductions in the prevalence of tobacco product use, tobacco use continues to be one of the most signi fi cant preventable causes of death and disease worldwide (Dai et al., 2022).”
Advancing environmental epidemiologic methods to confront the cancer burden
Kehm, R. D., Lloyd, S. E., Burke, K. R., & Terry, M. B. (2024) · American Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/aje/kwae175 · Cited by 12
Metadata
- Authors
- Dai, X., Gakidou, E., & Lopez, A. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Venue
- Tobacco Control
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2022-03
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 129-137
- ISSN
- 0964-4563 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-3318
- OpenAlex
- W4214882427
- Cited by
- 535
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 107 · 2025: 177 · 2024: 153 · 2023: 75 · 2022: 23
- FWCI
- 66.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Tobacco Control (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- smoking prevalence, smoking-related mortality, population attributable fraction, pack-years, smoking cessation, sex differences in smoking, low- and middle-income countries, tobacco control, global burden of disease, Latin America
- MeSH terms
- Global Burden of Disease, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Smoking, Global Health, Prevalence, Policy
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