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Cyprus sixth highest in EU in terms of daily smokers

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One in five of the population in Cyprus aged 15 years or more – or 21.2 per cent — smoke daily, the sixth highest share in the EU27 according to the latest figures published by Eurostat on Friday.

Nearly one in ten (9.7 per cent) smoke at least a pack a day, and 11.6 per cent smoke fewer than 20 cigarettes daily.

Men in Cyprus are nearly three times more likely to smoke than women – with a breakdown of 30.1 per cent and 12.8 per cent, the figures show.

According to the survey, 18.4 per cent of the EU population aged 15 years or more reported that they were daily cigarette smokers in 2019. In terms of level of consumption, 12.6 per cent of the EU population smoked fewer than 20 cigarettes per day, while 5.9 per cent smoked 20 or more cigarettes on a daily basis.

Across the EU Member States, the countries with the largest shares of daily cigarette smokers were Bulgaria (28.7 per cent), Greece (23.6 per cent), Latvia (22.1 per cent), Germany (21.9 per cent) and Croatia (21.8 per cent).

In contrast, the countries with the smallest shares of daily smokers were Sweden (6.4 per cent), Finland (9.9 per cent), Luxembourg (10.5 per cent), Portugal (11.5 per cent) and Denmark (11.7 per cent).

The proportion of smokers who consumed 20 cigarettes or more per day ranged between 1.0 per cent in Sweden and 12.9 per cent in Bulgaria. At the same time, the share of smokers who consumed fewer than 20 cigarettes varied between 5.3 per cent in Sweden and 15.8 per cent in Bulgaria.

In 2019, there were more smokers among the male population than the female population: 22.3 per cent of men aged 15 years old and over were daily cigarette smokers, compared with 14.8 per cent of women.

At country level, the proportion of men who smoked daily ranged from a low of 5.9 per cent in Sweden to a high of 37.6 per cent in Bulgaria. For women, this ranged between 6.8 per cent in Sweden and 20.7 per cent in Bulgaria.

In all EU Member States, the proportion of daily cigarette smokers was higher among men than among women, apart from in Sweden and Denmark. In Sweden, the share of men who smoked daily was 0.9 percentage points (pp) less than the share of daily female smokers, while in Denmark the proportion of male smokers who smoked daily was 0.1 pp less than the share of daily female smokers.

 

 

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