Smoking kills 8.7 million people every year, making it one of the leading preventable causes of death. 

The UN health agency urged nations to increase their use of recognized tobacco-use prevention strategies, such as:

Globally, only 4 countries have successfully adopted all the WHO-recommended anti-tobacco measures. 

Currently, 71% of the world’s population is protected against smoking by at least one tobacco control measure, 5 times more than in 2007. 

However, 2.3 billion people still remain unprotected. 

Regarding the control measures on e-cigarettes, 121 countries have adopted some, and a total of 74 have no regulations in place for the same.