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Some countries have seen sharp reductions in smoking driven by some combination of higher taxes, education campaigns, package warnings and programmes to help people kick the nicotine habit.Brazil was among the leaders over the 25-year period examined, with the percentage of daily smokers dropping from 29 to 12 percent among men, and from 19 to eight percent among women.But Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines -- where 47, 38 and 35 percent of men smoke, respectively -- saw no change from 1990 to 2015.In Russia -- where tobacco control policies were not put into place until 2014 -- the percentage of women who smoke climbed by more than four percent over the same period.Similar trends are emerging in much of Africa, the authors cautioned.The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that the number of men and women smoking in sub-Saharan Africa will go up 50 percent by 2025, compared to 2010 levels."Future mortality in low- and middle-income countries is likely to be huge," John Britton from the University of Nottingham's UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies wrote in a comment, also in The Lancet.Responsibility for the global tobacco epidemic lies mainly with a handful of multinational based in rich countries, he said."The modern tobacco industry profits from enslaving children and young people in poor countries into a lifelong addiction, and ultimately taking their lives for profit," he told AFP.The global response -- including a 180-nation "tobacco control" treaty inked in 2005 -- has focused mostly on users and not the supply, he added.The WHO has noted that "tobacco is the only legal drug that kills many of its users when used exactly as intended by the manufacturers."It is estimated that half of daily smokers will die prematurely due to their tobacco habit unless they quit.
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