Tobacco-related mortality in Latin America - percentage of deaths caused by tobacco relative to all deaths, changes from 1990 to 2019

(2025)

The latest Global Burden of Disease data show that, despite the optimistic downward trends in smoking prevalence shown by the WHO since the 1990s, no direct correspondence can yet be seen to reductions in smoking-related mortality. While the introduction of a series of tobacco regulations in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century seemingly resulted in a significant decline in smoking prevalence, it has not yet had a direct impact on smoking-related mortality. The proportion of tobacco-related deaths among all deaths was only declining in half of the Latin American countries by 2020.