Women & Cigarettes

Service Gallup determined – what the world most smokers. The survey was conducted in several dozen states on all continents.
Adult residents of those countries asked to answer the question: “Have you smoked in the last week?”. As it turned out, the largest number of smokers living in Cuba – 40% of Cubans smoked at the time of the study.
In Russia, Belarus, Kuwait, Chile and Bangladesh are smokers 37%. In Estonia, Latvia, Azerbaijan and Indonesia smokers slightly lower – 36%. Kazakhstan to 35%, in Lithuania – 34%, in Argentina and China – by 33%, in Ukraine, and Vietnam – by 32%. The most smokers are also the countries of Cyprus, Mauritius and Slovakia (31%), as well as South Africa and Burundi (30%). Recent data on the United States show that 24% of Americans smoke – this is a record low.
At the other extreme is Nigeria, where the smokers, only 6% of respondents. Among the states, most people are not exposed to this harmful habit also includes El Salvador, Ghana (8% of smokers), and Afghanistan and Ethiopia (9%).
In most countries, smoking gross domestic product (GDP) per capita ranges from $ 700 up to $ 23 100 per year, ie the relationship between income and adherence to smoking has been observed. On the other hand, every country with the lowest number of smokers among the most “poor” countries.
At the regional level, most of all smokers in the former Soviet Union and in Central Europe – where, on average, smokers make up 29% of the adult population. Slightly behind the European Union (28%). “Non-smokers, you can recognize the Central America and South Asia, where there are 12% of smokers.
According to estimates by the World Organization ZdravoohraneniyaWorld Health Organization, smoking ranks second in the list of causes of premature deaths. It is believed that each year smoking kills nearly 5 million people. Currently there are about 1.3 billion smokers, and if the industrialized countries the number of smokers gradually decreases, the “poor” countries, it quickly

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