Smoking prevalence in Austria
Adult1 (15 years+), 1997		Youth2 (11-15 year olds), 1998		Physicians3, 1995
Male	30 %	Male	8 %	Males	16%
Female	19 %	Female	10 %	Females	11 %

¹ Regular smoking measured by Austria's central statistics institute, 'OSTAT'.

² Daily smoking; Currie, C. et al. (2000).
Health behaviour in school-aged children: a WHO cross-national study. Health Policy for Children and Adolescents Series No. 1. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.

³ Current smoking among registered physicians in Styria (second largest county in Austria);
Domej, W. et al. (1997). Smoking behavior of Styrian physicians--results of a 1995 questionnaire survey. Wien Med Wochenschr, 147(15), 362-364.

Deaths attributed to smoking ^*

Smoking- attributed deaths, all ages, 1955-1995 ^*





Proportion of deaths attributed to smoking, 1990 ^*



Source: Peto, Lopez et al, 1992, 1994

Proportion of deaths attributed to smoking, 1995 *
	Males	Females	Total
Lung cancer	91.3 %	62.5 %	83.9 %
All cancer	33.3 %	6.3 %	19.9 %
Vascular	13.3 %	3.6 %	7.6 %
Respiratory	52.6 %	25.0 %	40.0 %
All other	6.0 %	2.9 %	4.6 %
All causes	19.0 %	4.8 %	11.4 %
Source:	Peto, Lopez et al, 1994 (update 1998)

Total deaths from smoking, 1950-2000 ^*

Male	Female	Total
330,000	64,000	394,000

Pharmaceutical treatments for tobacco dependence ^*

Dosage form	Regulatory status
Nicotine gum	Pharmacy Only
Nicotine Patch	Pharmacy Only09/10/00

Source: M. A. Corrao, G. E. Guindon, N. Sharma, D. F. Shokoohi, eds. Tobacco control country profiles. Atlanta : The American Cancer Society, 2000. Published for the 11th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health.


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