Tobacco kills someone evey nine seconds.

Tobacco kills a person every nine seconds. Somewhere in the world, four million smokers and users of chewing tobacco die as a result of their habit every year.
World Health Organization has claimed that every 12th person now alive on earth will die as a result of smoking. Experts estimate that an additional 80,000 to 100,00 people become nicotine addicts everyday.
China had the highest consumption with almost 1.7 trillion cigarettes per year followed by the United States with 480 billion, Russia with 230 billion, and Indonesia with 199 billion cigarettes smoked per year.