Almost 7 million dead people around the world in one single year ( 2015 ), due to smoking.
Making it account for 11.5% of worldwide deaths during 2015.
Out of the roughly 7 million dead people, 52.2% lived in four countries, China, India, the USA, and Russia.
13 countries, Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Iceland, Kenya, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA have showed significant year-to-year rates of decline of smoking between 1990 and 2015.
But while an increasingly lower percentage of the global population keep up with the filthy and unhealthy habit of smoking, as time goes by
due to our global population increase the total number of smokers is still going up, and it is now close to 1 billion people!.