‘Effective Tobacco Policies Could Save 8 Million Lives and 1 Trillion Dollars a Year’

Human Wrongs Watch

Smoking and tobacco use cost world economies more than $1 trillion each year in healthcare and lost productivity, the United Nations health agency on 10 January 2017 reported, refuting claims that controls on tobacco products adversely impact economies.

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Without such actions to curb tobacco products, an additional two million people – up to eight million from six millions – are expected die from tobacco and related products by 2030, according to the report. The majority of those deaths would be in low- and middle-income countries.

“The tobacco industry produces and markets products that kill millions of people prematurely, rob households of finances that could have been used for food and education, and impose immense healthcare costs on families, communities and countries,” Dr. Oleg Chestnov, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for NCDs. (SOURCE: UN).

2017 Human Wrongs Watch