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Berlin breaks record: Smoking costs lives – alarming figures!
Berlin records the highest smoking-related deaths in Germany, especially among men. The article highlights causes and prevention options.
Berlin breaks record: Smoking costs lives – alarming figures!
In Berlin, the number of people who have died as a result of tobacco consumption is alarmingly high. According to information from rbb24 The proportion of smoking-related deaths among men is almost 18 percent. For women it is around 13 percent. These figures place Berlin at the top of smoking-related deaths in Germany, surpassed only by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for men and Bremen for women.
In 2023, around 131,000 people across Germany will die as a result of smoking. This corresponds to around one in seven deaths in Germany. What is particularly tragic is that the majority of these deaths are caused by cancer, which accounts for 42 percent of all smoking-related deaths. Cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases also pose significant risks.
Demographic differences and regional aspects
The differences between men and women in terms of smoking-related deaths are even more pronounced in Brandenburg: Here, around 17 percent of deaths in men are due to smoking, while in women it is only around 9 percent. Many adults in Germany, more than one in four, smoke. This shows what a challenge tobacco prevention poses to the population.
The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) has highlighted the importance of tobacco control, as smoking is the most important preventable risk factor for cancer. Explained in a press release DKFZ, that in 2018, approximately 85,000 cancer cases were caused by tobacco use, accounting for 13.3 percent of all deaths.
Costs and social impacts of smoking
The economic costs of smoking are also significant: tobacco consumption in Germany costs around 97 billion euros annually. The Tobacco Atlas provides comprehensive information about the effects of smoking and solutions to reduce consumption. The aim of cancer prevention should be to strengthen the trend towards non-smoking and to reduce the number of smokers to less than 5 percent by 2040.
Current data shows that 26.4 percent of men and 18.6 percent of women smoke. What is striking is that the proportion of young people who smoke is 20 percent, while 61 percent of this group are non-smokers. It remains to be hoped that tobacco control measures will be successfully implemented to minimize the health-endangering consequences of smoking. Loud Statista Warnings about the consequences of smoking are a widespread anti-smoking measure that exists in over 110 countries.