"I'm astounded at the depths the tobacco industry will go to pursue profits at the expense of countless lives," says the World Health Organization's director of health promotion, Ruediger Krech.

The number of adult tobacco users has dropped steadily in recent years, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, but it warned Big Tobacco is working hard to reverse that trend.

In 2022, about one-in-five adults around the world were smokers or consumed other tobacco products, compared to one-in-every-three in 2000, the United Nations health agency said.

A fresh report looking at trends in the prevalence of tobacco use between 2000 and 2030 showed that 150 countries were successfully reducing it, the WHO said.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    10 months ago

    Not sure if they still do it.

    But the American government was paying people to stop growing domestically.

    Tobacco farming is insanely regulated, you can only produce so many pounds. If you don’t have it the authorization, you have to lease it from someone who does. And if you don’t lease/sell as much as your allowed, they shrink your amount every year.

    There hasn’t been new sign ups for decades, it’s all running off families who have been doing it for generations