According to Health Ministry data, about 125,000 people die each year in Türkiye due to tobacco, 25,000 of them from secondhand smoke. Worldwide, annual deaths exceed 7 million.
Of these deaths, 25,000 are people who were exposed to smoke despite not smoking. Globally, tobacco-related annual deaths exceed 7 million. Passive smoking causes the deaths of more than 1.6 million people every year.