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NEW YORK — Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill 1 billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to drastically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday.
Governments around the world collect more than $200 billion in tobacco taxes every year but spend less than one- fifth of 1 percent of that revenue on tobacco control, it said.
The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008 calls on all countries to sharply increase efforts to prevent young people from smoking, help smokers quit and protect nonsmokers from exposure to smoke.
