Occasional smoking might eventually end in addiction. Currently, about 19% of adults around the world smoke tobacco. But, according to the WHO report, there is a global decline in tobacco use, especially among males. In India, according to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) (2009-2010) and the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (2016-2017), there has been a 3.3% decline in smoking rates (Fig. 1). The global death rates have also declined from 146 per 100,000 people in 1990 to 90 per 100,000 in 2017.
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