Tobacco takes 10 lives globally every minute, 17.9 million die each year

Smoker stats: 11 mn cigarettes a minute by a seventh of global population, 80% from low & middle income countries; Indonesia tops with 315 mn

On the occasion of 'World No Tobacco Day', the World Health Organisation (WHO) found that on any day around 11 million cigarettes are consumed every minute, around the world and about 10 people die thanks to smoking.  Around a seventh of the global population smokes cigarettes, with around 80 per cent of the world's smokers coming from low and middle income countries.

In Indonesia, around 76 per cent of males aged above 15 years smoke cigarettes making it the country with most number of smokers, and around  315 million smokers reside within China.

Around 43 per cent of the male