Tobacco Production and ConsumptionWe meet smokers almost everywhere,in the street, in shops, at the railway station, on the campus and in many other public areas. This explains the astonishing statistic figure of 1.1 billion smokers put of 5.6 billion people in the world, occupying about 20% of the world's population.The harmful effect that smoking has upon people mainly lies in two aspects: money 10ss and health deterioration. In the figure, we can see that the annual consumption of tobacco amounts to 200 billion dollars, which, if spent on public welfare, can benefit a great many poor people.It is known to all that smoking does a lot of harm not only to smokers themselves, but also to people around who are actually unconscious victims. According to the statistics obtained, approximately 3 million peopIe die of lung cancer and other fatal diseases every year.Fortunately, nowadays more and more people have become aware of the harmful effect of smoking.. Tobacco consumption is decreasing. Tobacco production is decreasing (has dropped to 14.2 billion pounds in 1995 as against 14. 364 billion pounds in 1994). The number of smokers is decreasing.Finally, we believe in the advance of society, we believe in a new world without smoking, we believe in people.
