The number of smokers has dropped over the last years: the fourth WHO global tobacco trends report, released on November 2021, shows that there are 1.30 billion tobacco users worldwide, while the statistic of 2015 showed 1.32 billion smokers, with an expected, additional, decrease to 1.27 billion people by 2025, predicting a drop of around 50 million tobacco users in a 10 years frame.
Although the numbers seem to be promising, and with cessation strategies already implemented in many countries and with 60 countries working to achieve a 30% tobacco use reduction goal, at the current rate there won’t be a drastic reduction of the worldwide percentage of smokers, at least not in a short time frame.