Publication date:
April 5, 2017
About the tool
This interactive data visualization tool shows modeled trends in smoking prevalence worldwide and by country for the years 1980 to 2015. Data were derived from nationally representative sources that measured tobacco use.
Note: the data in this tool was last updated in 2017.
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Citation:
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Tobacco Visualization. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, 2017. Available from http://vizhub.healthdata.org/tobacco/. (Accessed [INSERT DATE])
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