Smokers around the world

 The number of smokers around the world has reached an all-time high of 1.1 billion in 2020,according to British medical magazine LANCET in May 2021.                                                                        The smoking rate in the world has declined but this has been outpaced by population growth; there is an increase in the total number of people around the world who smoke.                                               China has the largest number of the world's smokers;it has 30% of the world's smokers. In 2020;India has the second highest numbers of smokers and Indonesia has the third highest numbers of smokers.                                                         A lot of progress has been made in the war on smoking but a lot more needs to be done.90% of the world's smokers become addicted to tobacco by age 25.                                       Brazil has achieved tobacco control and Brazil has achieved a decline in smoking prevalence due to aggressive public education efforts.