If, for every word written against smoking there were one single person who really had stopped ? there would be no smokers in this world. Everybody in the Western World recognizes that tobacco-related diseases are the biggest preventable health problem of this century; yet, adolescents and young enjoy the privilege of youth that nothing can harm them anyway (from not wearing seatbelts to smoking!) and the imperceptible increase in Asian and developing countries affluence manifests itself in higher cigarette consumption per capitem. In Europe, between 25 and 30% of all cancer deaths are due to tobacco smoking. The WHO estimates that about one third of the global population, some 1.l billion adults, are smokers. This number is expected to increase and the worldwide death toll is already greater than from HIV, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, motor vehicle accidents, suicide and homicide combined.
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