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According to a 2010 study by University of Bielefeld, 9.9% of all 15-year-old males and 10.8% of 15-year-old females smoked daily, which showed a strong decline during the previous decade. [30] As in other industrial countries the prevalence of smoking in Germany is lower among people with higher education level.
English: World map of countries shaded according to their number of cigarettes smoked per adult per year, 2007. x = a n n u a l c o n s u m p t i o n o f c i g a r e t t e s p o p u l a t i o n {\displaystyle \mathrm {x} ={\frac {\mathrm {annual\ consumption\ of\ cigarettes} }{\mathrm {population} }}}
Policy and law restricting tobacco smoking has increased globally, but almost 6 trillion cigarettes are still produced each year, representing an increase of over 12% since the year 2000. [7] Tobacco is often heavily taxed to gain revenues for governments and as an incentive for people not to smoke. [8]
World map of annual cannabis prevalence. This is a list of the annual prevalence of cannabis use by country (including some territories) as a percentage of the population. The indicator is an "annual prevalence" rate which is the percentage of the youth and adult population who have consumed cannabis at least once in the past survey year.
Smoking is a practice in which a substance is combusted and the resulting smoke is typically inhaled to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream of a person. Most commonly, the substance used is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant, which have been rolled with a small rectangle of paper into an elongated cylinder called a cigarette.
In the developing world, however, smoking rates were rising by 3.4% per year as of 2002. [292] The WHO in 2004 projected 58.8 million deaths to occur globally, [296]: 8 from which 5.4 million are smoking-attributed, [296]: 23 and 4.9 million as of 2007. [297] As of 2002, 70% of the deaths are in developing countries. [297]
Smoking in China is prevalent, as the People's Republic of China is the world's largest consumer and producer of tobacco. As of 2022 [update] , there are around 300 million Chinese smokers, and 2.4 trillion cigarettes are sold there every year, 46% of the world total.
Smoking in Japan is practiced by around 20,000,000 people, and the nation is one of the world's largest tobacco markets, [1] though tobacco use has been declining in recent years. [2] As of 2022, the Japanese adult smoking rate was 14.8%. By gender, 24.8% of men and 6.2% of women consumed a tobacco product at least once a month. [3]