Smoking prevalence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Adult1 (15 years+), 1995		Physicians2, 1996
All adults	48 %	Males	55%
		Females	50 %

¹ Regular daily smoking measured by the Public Health Institute;
WHO Regional Office for Europe. (2000). Health for all statistical database. Copenhagen.

² Estimated regular daily cigarette smoking; information provided by Dr. Ajnija Omanic in the WHO European Region's Tobacco Questionnaire 1996/1997.

Deaths attributed to smoking ^*

Number of deaths from cancer, respiratory and circulatory disease, 1990 ^*

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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