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The Health Survey for England in 2002 found a smoking rate of 26%. By 2007 the proportion of adult smokers in England had declined four percentage points to 22%. [47] In 2015, it was reported smoking rates in England had fallen to 16.9%, a record low. [48] The rate in England had fallen to 14.4% in 2018. [49]
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} }}}
Rates of smoking have generally leveled-off or declined in the developed world. Smoking rates in the United States have dropped by half from 1965 to 2006, falling from 42% to 20.8% in adults. [121] In the developing world, tobacco consumption is rising by 3.4% per year. [122]
Smoking has become less popular, but is still a large public health problem globally. [194] [195] [196] Worldwide, smoking rates fell from 41% in 1980 to 31% in 2012, although the actual number of smokers increased because of population growth. [197] In 2017, 5.4 trillion cigarettes were produced globally, and were smoked by almost 1 billion ...
A country of 270 million people, Indonesia is one of the world's top producers of tobacco and there are about 70 million adult smokers there, the World Health Organization said in a 2021 survey.
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The smoking rates from these independent studies are lower than those reported by China's state-run newspaper. An article published in 2009 interviewed a source who claimed that 60% of Chinese male doctors were smokers, a percentage higher than any other country's doctors in the world. [32]
Of the 1.22 billion smokers, 1 billion live in developing or transitional nations. Rates of smoking have leveled off or declined in the developed world. [295] In the developing world, however, smoking rates were rising by 3.4% per year as of 2002. [292]