Smoking prevalence in Estonia
Adult1 (15 years+), 1996		Youth2 (11-15 year olds), 1998		Physicians3, 1982
Male	47.5 %	Male	7 %	Males	42 %
Female	21.7 %	Female	3 %	Females	18 %

¹ Regular daily smoking measured by The Health Survey 1996;
WHO Regional Office for Europe. (2000). Health for all statistical database. Copenhagen.

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 Regular daily smoking;
information provided by Andrus Lipand in the WHO European Region's Tobacco Questionnaire 1996/1997.

Deaths attributed to smoking ^*

Proportion of deaths attributed to smoking, 1990 ^*



Source: Peto, Lopez et al, 1992, 1994

Proportion of deaths attributed to smoking, 1990 *
	Males	Females	Total
Lung cancer	94.0 %	44.2 %	86.1 %
All Cancer	48.3 %	4.0 %	27.7 %
Vascular	19.4 %	2.3 %	9.4 %
Respiratory	64.2 %	21.2 %	49.2 %
All Other	8.2 %	1.7 %	5.7 %
All Causes	25.7 %	2.8 %	13.9 %
Source:	Peto, Lopez et al, 1992, 1994

Pharmaceutical treatments for tobacco dependence ^*

Dosage form	Regulatory status
Nicotine gum	Pharmacy Only
Nicotine Patch	Pharmacy Only

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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