True - which is particularly disheartening considering the world wide population was 6.7 billion in 2008 according to the World Bank, and in 1995 only 29% of the population smokes world wide (47% of Males and 12% of Females).
original claim: @OMGFacts; sources: World Health Organization [pdf], World Bank, World Development Indicators [via Google Public Data], World Bank, Economics of Tobacco Control
