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* International comparisons in smoking *
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Tobacco is used across the world in many forms including cigarettes, chewing tobacco and snuff. In many countries, cigarette smoking is only a small part of tobacco use, and comparable data on tobacco use are not widely available. Recent data from the World Health Organization show the known prevalence of adult smoking varies among men from 65% in Kazakhstan and the Republic of Korea to 6% in Ethiopia, and among women from 57% in Lebanon to less than 1% in Algeria, Ethiopia, Egypt and Morocco. Smoking rates in the UK are, by international standards, relatively low in men (within the second lowest quintile) and relatively high in women (within the highest quintile).

 

Data from the World Health Organization’s Europe Region “Health for All Database” show that, in 2004, the overall UK adult smoking rate of 25% was below the average for the European Union (EU-25 30%) and for Europe (2002) as a whole (29%). The decline in smoking prevalence in the UK since the mid 1990s has been slight (2%). Cyprus, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland all showed a decline of 10% or more.
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* Prevalence of smoking, latest available data, 1995 to 2004, all available countries, the World (Table)
Source: World Health Organization (2005) European Health for All statistical database; World Health Organization (2005) The Surf Report 2.		  
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Prevalence of smoking, latest available data, 1995 to 2004, all available countries, the World (Table)
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* Prevalence of smoking, men, latest available data, the World (Map)
Sources: WHO European Health for All database (2005); WHO The Surf Report 2 (2005).		  
Adobe Acrobat Document - Prevalence of smoking, men, latest available data, the World (Map)
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* Prevalence of smoking, women, latest available data, the World (Map)
Sources: WHO European Health for All database (2005); WHO The Surf Report 2 (2005).		  
Adobe Acrobat Document - Prevalence of smoking, women, latest available data, the World (Map)
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* Percentage regular daily smokers by country, adults aged 15 and over, 1995 to 2005, selected European countries (Table)
Source: World Health Organization (2006) European Health for All statistical database; Office for National Statistics (2005).		  
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Percentage regular daily smokers by country, adults aged 15 and over, 1995 to 2005, selected European countries (Table)
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* Percentage regular daily smokers by country, adults aged 15 years and over, latest year between 1997 and 2005, selected European countries (Figure)
Source: World Health Organization (2006) European Health for All statistical database; Office for National Statistics (2005). 		 
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Percentage regular daily smokers by country, adults aged 15 years and over, latest year between 1997 and 2005, selected European countries (Figure)
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