Smoking prevalence in Croatia (Hrvaska)
Adult1 (18-64 years+), 1995		Youth2 (14 year olds), 1995		Health workers3, 1993
All adults	31 %	All youth	8.8 %	All health workers	34.7%

¹ Daily cigarette smoking;
information provided by Dr. Vlasta Hrabak-Zerjavic in the WHO European Region's Tobacco Questionnaire 1996/1997

² Regular daily smoking measured by European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD);
information provided by Vlasta Hrabak-Zerjavic in the WHO European Region's Tobacco Questionnaire 1996/1997.

³ Regular daily smoking among health workers in the Zagreb area;
information provided by Vlasta Hrabak-Zerjavic 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: World Health Organization. (1998). World Health Statistics Annual, 1996. Geneva Switzerland.

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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