E-cigarettes are fueling new wave of nicotine addiction: WHO report

NAMPA / Xinhua
2025-10-07
GENEVA, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- While the world is smoking less, tobacco still hooks one in five adults worldwide, causing millions of preventable deaths every year, and e-cigarettes are fueling a new wave of nicotine addiction, said a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. The number of tobacco users has dropped from 1.38 billion in 2000 to 1.2 billion in 2024. Since 2010, the number of people using tobacco has fallen by......
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