Who Smokes in Europe? Data From 12 European Countries in the TackSHS Survey (2017-2018).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Population data on tobacco use and its determinants require continuous monitoring and careful inter-country comparison. We aimed to provide the most up-to-date estimates on tobacco smoking from a large cross-sectional survey, conducted in selected European countries.

Methods

Within the TackSHS Project, a face-to-face survey on smoking was conducted in 2017-2018 in 12 countries: Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Spain, representing around 80% of the 432 million European Union (EU) adult population. In each country, a representative sample of around 1,000 subjects aged 15 years and older was interviewed, for a total of 11,902 participants.

Results

Overall, 25.9% of participants were current smok

SUBMITTER: Gallus S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7813769 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature