Prevalenza del consumo di prodotti del tabacco tra le persone di età pari o superiore a 15 anni

Tobacco products include cigarettes, pipes, cigars, cigarillos, water pipes (hookah, shisha), bidis, kretek, heated tobacco, and all forms of smokeless tobacco (oral and nasal). E-cigarettes and similar devices are excluded because they do not contain tobacco.

Source: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/gho-tobacco-control-monitor-current-tobaccouse-tobaccosmoking-cigarrettesmoking-agestd-tobagestdcurr

Not surprising, tobacco companies are heavily regulated, so they often target cultural and low income demographics. In poorer countries, cigarettes are often available in bulk and at lower prices, while in Western Europe, they really jack up the prices.

When I’ve traveled around Turkiye, Lebanon, and a few other places, it seemed like almost every adult male outside was smoking. Not sure if it’s tied to Islamic practices, but coffee and a smoke seem to be a common pairing.

What surprises me is the Czech Republic…

Any Czech folks care to share why smoking rates are so high?

I thought it would start to decrease along with Poland. In many countries, smokers have been priced out (which was kind of the government’s goal), and the culture has shifted completely.

So why is it so high in Czech Republic ?

Even in Ireland, a place with a pub on every corner, it’s become socially unacceptable to smoke in shared spaces.

And honestly while i hate vapes and I wish all vape shops would disappear from my city…. I cannot stress how much nicer is to smell something fruity rather than nasty tobacco.

Data came out today that excise taxes on tobacco are full 8% of the Bulgarian GDP.

Public finances might actually collapse if we quit smoking.

Funny to see that life expectancy is 2 years longer in France than in the United Kingdom.

Yeah, that is no surprise. Tobacco and Alcohol are extremely expensive in the UK. You move to mainland Europe and suddenly those things are considerably cheaper.

With how much it costs I’m surprised people can keep affording it.

In Sweden almost all of it is snus. Regular smokers are now around 5% if memory serves, one of (if not the lowest) level of smoking in Europe.

I happened to look at the official numbers yesterday for Sweden from the public health agency and this number here are incorrect.

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This is incredibly sad.

Misleading title. This data shows the rate of smoking people in the population. So a smoker might be smoking 1 or 100 cigarattes per day amounts to the same data in this graph. But if we consider the rate of #smoked cigarattes / population, Turkey is the highest all around the world :

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkiye-ranks-first-in-cigarettes-smoked-report-189882#:~:text=T%C3%BCrkiye%20ranks%20first%20in%20the,in%20Austria%2C%20the%20report%20said.

Anything above 0 is already too much.