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Rwanda: Five Million Smokers Die Annually - WHO 

The campaign to fight smoking will have to reduce on the number of smokers who die worldwide now estimated at five million annually. This means that about 13,661 people die daily due to smoking.

If the current tobacco consumption patterns continue, the number of deaths will reach 10 million per year by 2020, of which 70% will occur in developing countries, according to reports from the World Health Organisation.

It says the situation is moving from bad to worse as the tobacco industry relocates to the poor South, fleeing harsh regulations in the developed countries. "This Region has to confront this epidemic quickly because tobacco consumption is a preventable cause of death," Sambo is quoted as saying. . . .

Speaking to some hardcore smokers in Kigali city on the impression about quitting and smoking dangers, Emmanuel Mugisha, a businessman, revealed that if the law is passed on smoking in public, the government should have provisions of smoker's kiosks. "After 15 years of smoking, I can quit because the law has to be respected. I only hope that treatment and counseling services can be provided to those trying to quit smoking.

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