WHO REPORT ON GLOBAL TOBACCO EPIDEMIC 2019

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• Tobacco use has declined proportionately in most countries, but population growth means the total number of people using tobacco has remained stubbornly high.
  
  
• Currently, there are an estimated 1.1 billion smokers, around 80% of whom live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
  
  
• Many governments are making progress in the fight against tobacco, with 5 billion people today living in countries that have introduced smoking bans, graphic warnings on packaging and other effective tobacco control measures - four times more people than a decade ago.
  
  
• The greatest growth in population coverage was seen in tobacco taxation. The population coverage from this MPOWER policy has almost doubled from 8% in 2016 to 14% in 2018.
  
  
• Brazil has become the second, after Turkey, to fully implement all the MPOWER measures at the highest level of achievement.