Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.
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A recent global study suggests that cutting smoking rates
to just 5% by 2050 could increase life expectancy by a year for men and 0.2
years for women. Smoking rates are projected to drop to 21% in men and 4% in
women by that time. |