Mortality Attributable to Tobacco by Selected Countries Based on the WHO Global Report

In order to study the correlation between tobacco consumption and disease risk across the world, we prepared an abstract of estimated adult (age 30 years and above) deaths attributable to tobacco consumption for all types of malignant neoplasm (ICD-10 code: C00–97), cardiovascular disease (I00–99) and respiratory disease (J30–98), on the basis of the WHO Global Report entitled, Mortality Attributable to Tobacco, which was recently published in 2012. In this publication, country- and region-specific death rates per 100 000 and proportion attributable to tobacco consumption (%) as of 2004 reported by WHO are available by age and sex. Figures 1 and 2 show the overall death rates and death rates attributable to tobacco consumption for males and females, respectively, for all types of malignant neoplasm, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease in the selected countries, along with rough estimates of rates and the proportion of mortality attributable to tobacco consumption.