← on nowLGR-055 · v0.1.0 · model · estimate How many people are killed by tobacco each year?
humans · Homo sapiens
killed by tobacco
8 million
a year
0.254
a second
21,903
a day
of them, from someone else’s smoke
1.3 million
a year
0.041
a second
3,559
a day
method WHO tobacco fact sheet: >8 million/yr including ~1.3 million from second-hand smoke.
- more than malaria, tuberculosis and hiv together, every year, and it is sold in shops.source: WHO tobacco fact sheet 2023
- smoking is falling almost everywhere. because we taxed it, banned it indoors, and stopped letting it advertise. slowly.source: WHO global tobacco trends 2024
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=humans" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · humans"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- WHO tobacco fact sheet: >8 million/yr including ~1.3 million from second-hand smoke.
- range
- 7.5–8.5 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- attributable-fraction estimate; the strongest such estimate in epidemiology.
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- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0