Smoking prevalence in Finland
Adult1 (15-64 years), 1999		Youth2 (11-15 year olds), 1999		Physicians3, 1995
Male	27 %	Male	9 %	Males	7%
Female	20 %	Female	9 %	Females	3 %

¹ cigarette and pipe smoking;
National Public Health Institute. (1998). Health behaviour among Finnish adult population, Spring 1998. Helsinki: Puska, P. et al.

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 Daily smoking among physicians registered with the Finnish Medical Association;
Jormanainen, V. et al. (1996). Smoking among Finnish physicians in 1990-1995. Smoke Free Europe Conference Abstracts, 19 September 1996.

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	93.3 %	50.0 %	84.2 %
All cancer	36.5 %	6.1 %	21.8 %
Vascular	16.4 %	0.4 %	1.8 %
Respiratory	36.8 %	5.6 %	21.6 %
All other	6.5 %	1.7 %	4.2 %
All causes	19.6 %	3.2 %	11.3 %
Source:	Peto, Lopez et al, 1994 (update 1998)

Total deaths from smoking, 1950-2000 ^*

Male	Female	Total
279,000	17,000	296,000

Pharmaceutical treatments for tobacco dependence ^*

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