Who Smokes in Europe? Data From 12 European Countries in the TackSHS Survey (2017-2018).
Silvano GallusAlessandra LugoXiaoqiu LiuPanagiotis BehrakisRoberto BoffiCristina BosettiGiulia CarrerasLiliane ChatenoudLuke ClancyXavier ContinenteRuaraidh DobsonTobias EffertzFilippos T FilippidisMarcela FuGergana GeshanovaGiuseppe GoriniSheila KeoganHristo IvanovMaría J LopezAngel Lopez-NicolasJosé PreciosoKrzysztof PrzewozniakCornel Radu-LoghinArio RuprechtSean SempleJoan B SorianoPolina StarchenkoMarta Trapero-BertranOlena TigovaAnna S TzortziConstantine VardavasVergina K VyzikidouPaolo ColomboEsteve Fernandeznull nullPublished in: Journal of epidemiology (2020)
These smoking prevalence estimates represent the most up-to-date evidence in Europe. From them, it can be derived that there are more than 112 million current smokers in the EU-28. Lower socio-economic status is a major determinant of smoking habit in both sexes.