Women start smoking as early as men
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Disappointing forecasts are made by scientists from the University of Buffalo (USA): if not to take effective measures, in the next hundred years, addiction to tobacco prematurely sends to the next world about a billion people - mostly from poor countries.
For comparison: in the XX century from tobacco before the dead 100 million earthlings died.
Researchers analyzed data on 3 billion people from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Vietnam and the Philippines with medium and low incomes, comparing them with information about residents of the United States and Great Britain.
As it turned out, 49% of men and 11% of women in the countries of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) consume tobacco in one form or another. And although women among tobacco lovers are still much less than men, the weak sex begins to smoke as early as the strong, that is, about 17 years. 64% of tobacco addicts consume industrial-produced cigarettes.
The largest number of tobacco lovers in China is 301 million (52.9% of men), followed by India with 274 million (47.9% of men). The largest percentage of those who have overcome tobacco dependence are registered in the US, UK, Brazil and Uruguay, and least of all such people in China, India, Russia and Egypt.