SMOKING: Are less people doing it? Toko, Tsukino, Cathy


It is well-known that smoking causes damaging effects to our health such as lung cancer, diabetes, heart disease, anxiety, ... However, smoking trend has been decreasing, which is a positive aspect. This blog will show the worldwide smoking trend considered by areas, age groups, and genders. 


By gender 

 

Graph: “Prevalence of tobacco smoking among those aged 15 years and older worldwide from 2000 to 2025, by sex” published by John Elflein on Statista on Jan 25, 2024 https://www.statista.com/statistics/937314/tobacco-smoking-prevalence-globally-by-gender/ 

 

In general, men are commonly believed to smoke more than women. According to the graph, overall, from 2000 to 2025, in both genders, there is a gradual decrease in smoking trend. In men, the smoking rate has declined from 43.5% in 2000 to 26.4% in 2025. In women, the trend was 10.4% in 2000 then drop to 4.5% in 2025. Moreover, the difference of smoking rate in men and women is considerable. In the period of 25 years (2000-2025), the women’s smoking rate is always lower than the men’s, which is approximately one-fifth smaller. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By age Graph: Ritchie, H and Roser, M. (2023 November). Smoking-Tobacco smoking is one of the world’s largest health problems today. <Smoking - Our World in Data>. 27 June 2024.  


This graph shows Death rates are measured as the number of early deaths due to smoking per 100,000 individuals in a given demographic group. We can see that smoking mainly affects older people. The most visible changes were in the green line that is people over 70 years old, which has declined slightly from 1022.5 in 1990 to 660.8 in 2021. The orange line describes people aged 50 to 69 and gradually dropping from 324.2 in 1990 to 170.9 in 2021. There has not been much changed between the ages of 15 and 49, it is the red line.  

 

 

By area 

 

Share of deaths attributed to smoking, 1990 to 2021 

The share of total deaths, from any causes, where smoking was an attributed risk factor. 

Graph: Smoking - Our World in Data IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2024) 

 

In 1990, the tobacco mortality rates for the regions broken down by income were High-income-countries, Upper-middle-income countries, world, lower-middle-income countries and low-income countries from the top. What we can realize was that the order of rate completely depends on their income. However, in 1995 the position of High-income countries and Upper-middle-income countries were switched. Lastly in 2019 the rate of all countries decreased significantly by about 2%. It is assumed that COVID-19 was related to this decrease. 


In conclusion, it is clear that there is a decrease in smoking trend. Thank you for reading! 

 

 

Comments

  1. Aiyan Zhang (Anny)July 4, 2024 at 4:42 PM

    It's good thing less people smoke. You gave a detailed explanation.

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  2. Hana Louise BruinJuly 4, 2024 at 4:45 PM

    I'm glad to hear that people who are smoking are decreasing! It is dangerous for surrounding so I hope more people will think about health effects.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 4, 2024 at 4:49 PM

    Smoking has negative effects on us, so I’m relieved to hear the number of people who smoke is decreasing. Yusuke

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  4. JimmyJuly 4, 2024 at 5:01 PM

    It's good to know that the population who smoking decreasing.

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  5. Misaki TorihataJuly 4, 2024 at 6:13 PM

    I'm glad to hear that the number of people smoking decrease gradually.

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  6. Koko KagawaJuly 4, 2024 at 9:04 PM

    It's good news for people who don't smoking to people who smoking decrease .

    ReplyDelete
  7. Riko FujimotoJuly 6, 2024 at 10:56 PM

    It's a good point that there was a dramatic declining of death relating to smoking during COVID19.

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