Mihawk [7]
Tuesday, February 11th 2014, 10:31am
The World's Heaviest Smoking Countries
According to surveys that are taken during the end of 2012 (since I wasn't able to track surveys done lately), the international smoking data looks like this:
Nobody lights up like Eastern Europe, where average annual consumption can exceed 2,000 cigarettes per person. The very highest rate is in Serbia (2,861 cigarettes per person per year), according to data from 71 countries compiled by the World Lung Foundation and American Cancer Society. Fourth-place Russia, not far behind at 2,786 cigarettes per person per year, is now finally dealing with its smoking problem.
The biggest smokers outside of Eastern Europe are South Koreans, Kazakhs, and Japanese, in that order. China's smoking rate still lags behind Korea's and Japan's (1,711 cigarettes per person in China versus 1,958 in Korea and 1,841 in Japan), but China is the world's largest overall consumer of cigarettes. As the country urbanizes and develops, don't be shocked if they rise in the rankings.
A 1998 study of Russian smoking habits found a direct correlation between cigarette and alcohol consumption rates and a direct correlation between smoking and exposure to "Western influences," such as Western tobacco companies marketing cigarettes as symbols of a "glamorous Western lifestyle."
Americans rank right in the middle. The U.S. is ranked 34th in the available data, with about a thousand cigarettes consumed per person per year. They're about tied with the Israelis, the Australians and the Irish.
This is a list with the most smoking countries according to number of cigarettes per adult :
1- Serbia
2- Bulgaria
3- Greece
4- Russia
5- Moldova
6- Ukraine
7- Slovenia
8- Bosnia and Herzegovina
9- Belarus
10- Montenegro
11- Lebanon
12- Czech Republic
13- South Korea
14- Macedonia
15- Kazakhstan
16- Azerbaijan
17- Japan
18- Kuwait
19- Spain
20- Switzerland
Nobody lights up like Eastern Europe, where average annual consumption can exceed 2,000 cigarettes per person. The very highest rate is in Serbia (2,861 cigarettes per person per year), according to data from 71 countries compiled by the World Lung Foundation and American Cancer Society. Fourth-place Russia, not far behind at 2,786 cigarettes per person per year, is now finally dealing with its smoking problem.
The biggest smokers outside of Eastern Europe are South Koreans, Kazakhs, and Japanese, in that order. China's smoking rate still lags behind Korea's and Japan's (1,711 cigarettes per person in China versus 1,958 in Korea and 1,841 in Japan), but China is the world's largest overall consumer of cigarettes. As the country urbanizes and develops, don't be shocked if they rise in the rankings.
A 1998 study of Russian smoking habits found a direct correlation between cigarette and alcohol consumption rates and a direct correlation between smoking and exposure to "Western influences," such as Western tobacco companies marketing cigarettes as symbols of a "glamorous Western lifestyle."
Americans rank right in the middle. The U.S. is ranked 34th in the available data, with about a thousand cigarettes consumed per person per year. They're about tied with the Israelis, the Australians and the Irish.
This is a list with the most smoking countries according to number of cigarettes per adult :
1- Serbia
2- Bulgaria
3- Greece
4- Russia
5- Moldova
6- Ukraine
7- Slovenia
8- Bosnia and Herzegovina
9- Belarus
10- Montenegro
11- Lebanon
12- Czech Republic
13- South Korea
14- Macedonia
15- Kazakhstan
16- Azerbaijan
17- Japan
18- Kuwait
19- Spain
20- Switzerland
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Dzaack [18]
Tuesday, February 11th 2014, 10:40am
I am absolutly convinced those numbers are not real... i believe the number of cigarettes consumed anually is far, far bigger... worldwide.. don't care about how they rank up countries in there
Well, never fully trust to numbers but message is always the same.
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Tuesday, February 11th 2014, 10:57am
and don't bother telling me that for each person and the fact that not every person living in those countries are smokers from the start cause i already know....
Lol, now this made me laugh...
You know how this works at all? Datas are always taken in percentage, middle value is taken.
Family got 4 members for example,
2 of them smoke, another 2 don't.
Each of smokers smoke 10 cigarettes a day for example.
Middle Value taken from that house would be 5 cigarettes a day.
So statistic doesn't reveal how many smokers are in the house, it's about numbers of cigarettes that are smoken (in the case of international surveys, how many is bought). You can have someone smoking 6000 cigarettes per year...but number will split due to total number of population of that country, it's middle value.
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Tuesday, February 11th 2014, 2:51pm
and don't bother telling me that for each person and the fact that not every person living in those countries are smokers from the start cause i already know....
Lol, now this made me laugh...
You know how this works at all? Datas are always taken in percentage, middle value is taken.
Family got 4 members for example,
2 of them smoke, another 2 don't.
Each of smokers smoke 10 cigarettes a day for example.
Middle Value taken from that house would be 5 cigarettes a day.
So statistic doesn't reveal how many smokers are in the house, it's about numbers of cigarettes that are smoken (in the case of international surveys, how many is bought). You can have someone smoking 6000 cigarettes per year...but number will split due to total number of population of that country, it's middle value.
that was exactly my point... they are irrelevant...
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Tuesday, February 11th 2014, 7:37pm
well i dont see albania there and in every 3 teens 2 smoke in here...so i strongly disagree with the list...it just got a report that the smoking problem here its getting higher than that of the europian states..so maybe not 1st but albania had to somehow be on that list (acording to the news at least)
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This is a list with the most smoking countries according to number of cigarettes per adult:
I kinda don't see "kids", "teens" anywhere...
But you got the point of the topic which was my goal.
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--Dreamerius-- [3]
Wednesday, February 12th 2014, 2:30pm
But what of the other forms of tobacco? Do they fall under this study? or just cigarettes? (talking about Snuff/Chewing tobacco)
Good question, but sadly it's study on cigarettes that were sold legally, only. That's exactly why numbers aren't saying the truth, in reality it's far higher consumption, but if statistic shows this situation that is critical...IRL it's catastrophic.
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Thursday, February 13th 2014, 2:31pm
Wrong statistics!.. once i saw on a news report that france is a really heavily smoking country
I wonder, do you actually have a clue of what's going on in here, when is this statistic taken and...what's the point of topic?
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Shylark [15]
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