According to statistics, a total of 27 percent of Mongolian population are smokers. Smoking is the greatest single cause of preventable illness and premature death in Mongolia, one in three people die as a result of coronary disease and one in five from cancer.

Passive smoking is also a major problem: a total of 49 percent of non-smokers are affected by indirect smoking at home and 25.5 percent in the work-place.