Smoking prevalence in France
Adult1 (18 years+), 1997		Youth2 (11-15 year olds), 1998		Cardiologists3, 1993
Male	39 %	Male	8 %	Males	13 %
Female	27 %	Female	10 %	Females	17 %

¹ Current smoking of all products measured by the Comite Francais d'Education pour la Sante;
Joossens, L. (1999). Some like it "light": women and smoking in the European Union. Belgium: European Network for Smoking Prevention.

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 measured by the Federation Francaise de Cardiologie;
Tessier, J.F. et al. (1995). Attitudes and opinions of French cardiologists towards smoking. Eur J Epidemiol, 11, 615-620.

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, 1990 *
	Males	Females	Total
Lung cancer	90.6 %	43.5 %	85.8 %
All Cancer	36.5 %	2.2 %	23.1 %
Vascular	14.2 %	0.9 %	7.1 %
Respiratory	37.6 %	5.4 %	22.5 %
All Other	9.1 %	0.7 %	5.0 %
All Causes	21.3 %	1.5 %	11.9 %
Source:	Peto, Lopez et al, 1994 (update 1998)

Total deaths from smoking, 1950-2000 ^*

Male	Female	Total
2,200,000	40,000	2,240,000

Pharmaceutical treatments for tobacco dependence ^*

Dosage form	Regulatory status	Comments
Nicotine gum	Pharmacy Only	Advertised
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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