"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.

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    The Canadian show Murdoch Mysteries is a perfect example of that. Set in 1900. They have a female morgue doctor that is free to do what she wants like accuse people of murder and such. Then they had her go to be a Psychiatrist at a mental hospital and another female doctor took over at the morgue. Like female doctors were rare but they seem to have two in the same city at the same time.