Speaking at the “Smoking Free University” conference in Tehran on Sunday, Mohammad Reza Masjedi said more than 600 trillion rials ($1.2 billion) are spent annually on the treatment of tobacco-related diseases in Iran.
“About 60,000 deaths in the country are estimated to be caused by the consumption and exposure to tobacco,” he stated.
“The prevalence of smoking in the year 1400 (2021-2022) was 25.88% in men and 4.44 in women, which points to an increasing trend in the last five years in people above 18 years of age,” he added.
Masjedi also said that Iranians spend more than 300 trillion rials annually on buying cigarettes and tobacco, which he said causes the annual economic damage of more than 1.1 quadrillion rials to the country’s production and development sectors due to the premature deaths among consumers and because of pollution, absence from work, disability and fire incidents caused by smoking.
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