Smoking prevalence and attributable deaths in Thailand: predicting outcomes of different tobacco control interventions

Table 4 Number of baseline and smoking attributed deaths averted from different tobacco control policies, 2016–2025

Year	Baseline all-cause deaths (aged > 15 years)	Restricted access to youth	Price increase	Quit-line	Brief advice	Combined
2016	256,947	0	0	0	0	0
2017	248,268	0	0	0	0	0
2018	240,143	78	0	78	640	811
2019	232,517	223	116	206	1,686	2,290
2020	225,346	425	423	366	2,982	4,332
2021	218,591	674	967	545	4,426	6,856
2022	212,219	963	1,776	734	5,950	9,804
2023	206,200	1,286	2,866	930	7,507	13,127
2024	200,505	1,634	4,244	1,126	9,069	16,790
2025	195,115	2,001	5,909	1,320	10,612	20,759
Cumulative	2,235,851	9,668	24,164	6,816	54,999	99,784
Reduction in mortality (%)		0.43%	1.08%	0.30%	2.46%	4.46%

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