How much is spent worldwide on tobacco advertising and on smoking in general?
Tobacco advertising is estimated to cost about US$1500 million a year, worldwide. This is enough to cover the cost of vaccinating all newborn babies against the six major diseases: diphtheria, whooping cough (pertussis), tetanus, measles, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), tuberculosis. Money spent on smoking worldwide every year is estimated to be forty times as much, or US$100 000 million (1992 figures). Q: How many people die of smoking-related diseases every year? A: Around 1.5 million people die each year worldwide due to smoking-related diseases, a rate of one death every 13 seconds. Q: What is the death rate due to the various smoking-related diseases? A: Eighty-five per cent of all the deaths due to lung cancer, 75% of those due to chronic bronchitis and 25% of those due to other heart diseases are smoking-related. Almost no lung cancer cases can be treated by surgery, and only 5% of those that can continue to live for five more years. Smoking-related diseases contribute to a
