Introduction In 2019, tobacco use was responsible for the loss of 200 million disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) globally.1 The negative impact of tobacco use goes beyond health, causing more than $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures and lost productivity each year as a result of tobacco-related diseases.2 In health and economic terms, most of the burden falls on small and medium-developing countries, where 80% of the worlds 1.1 billion people who actively smoke live.3 In addition to direct medical costs, tobacco also affects the economy through the productivity losses caused by tobacco-attributable diseases, and the informal unpaid care of these diseases, a burden that disproportionately affects women
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