Smoking prevalence in Denmark
Adult1 (15 years+), 1998		Youth2 (11-15 year olds), 1998		Physicians3, 1991
Male	29 %	Male	6 %	Males	29%
Female	30 %	Female	8 %	Females	20 %

¹ Daily cigarette smoking (less than 15 cigarettes per day);
Danish Council on Smoking and Health. (1998). Smoking prevention in Denmark. .

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 Smoking on the day prior to the survey (Did you smoke yesterday?) measured by a Gallup Institute survey; information provided by Ulla Skovgaard Danielsen of the Danish Council on Smoking and Health.

Deaths attributed to smoking ^*

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





Proportion of deaths attributed to smoking, 1995 ^*



Source: Peto, Lopez et al, 1994 (update 1998)

Proportion of deaths attributed to smoking, 1995 *
	Males	Females	Total
Lung cancer	90.9 %	83.3 %	88.2 %
All cancer	38.8 %	18.4 %	28.8 %
Vascular	16.9 %	11.0 %	13.8 %
Respiratory	53.8 %	42.3 %	48.1 %
All other	11.4 %	9.0 %	10.2 %
All causes	22.8 %	15.1 %	18.9 %
Source:	Peto, Lopez et al, 1994 (update 1998)

Total deaths from smoking, 1950-2000 ^*

Male	Female	Total
272,000	107,000	379,000

Pharmaceutical treatments for tobacco dependence ^*

Dosage form	Regulatory status	Comments
Nicotine gum	Pharmacy Only	Advertised
Nicotine Patch	Pharmacy Only	Advertised
Bupropion Tablet	Prescription Only Medicines	Advertised

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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