Smoking Statistics across the world

Whole medical community is concerned about increasing smoking instances across the world. The deadly injurious smoking is taking more lives than the cardiac ailments. Here are the alarming statistics of smoking those may help us understand the necessary steps and future care to be taken--

Rank Countries Amount


# 1 Austria: 36.3%

# 2 Greece: 35%

# 3 Hungary: 33.8%

# 4 Luxembourg: 33%

# 5 Turkey: 32.1%

# 6 Netherlands:32%

# 7 Korea, South:30.4%

# 8 Japan: 30.3%

# 9 Spain: 28.1%

# 10 Denmark: 28%

# 11 Poland: 27.6%

# 12 Belgium: 27%

# 13 Ireland: 27%

# 14 France: 27%

# 15 Switzerland:26.8%

# 16 Mexico: 26.4%

# 17 Norway: 26%

# 18 United Kingdom:26%

# 19 New Zealand:25%

# 20 Germany: 24.3%

# 21 Slovakia: 24.3%

# 22 Italy: 24.2%

# 23 Czech Republic:24.1%

# 24 Iceland: 22.4%

# 25 Finland: 22.2%

# 26 Portugal: 20.5%

# 27 Australia: 19.8%

# 28 Sweden: 17.5%

# 29 United States:17.5%

# 30 Canada: 17%

Weighted average: 26.4%

SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005