Belarus is among leaders in another embarrassing rating

Belarus continues “rushing” embarrassing ratings of countries. It has become known recently that our country is in the first place in the rating of countries according to the number of taxes and duties in the world. Now Belarus is among leaders on the list of countries whose inhabitants are regular nicotine adherents. Belarus occupies the second position in the rating together with Russia, Kuwait, Chile and Bangladesh. The majority of smokers live in the communist Cuba.

According to the World Health Organization, there are 1.3 billion smokers in the world. At the same time, the number of smokers in the developed counties is gradually decreasing while it is increasing in poor countries. Smoking kills about 5 million people every year.

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