Smoking prevalence in Portugal
Adult1 (18 years+), 1995-1996		Youth2 (11-15 year olds), 1998		General practitioners3, 1991
Male	30.2 %	Male	6 %	Males	44 %
Female	7.1 %	Female	5 %	Females

¹ Regular daily smoking, National Health Survey conducted by the Ministry of Health;
Tobacco consumption, percent of population daily smokers. (1999). OECD Health Data 1999: A Comparative Analysis of 29 Countries. [CD-ROM]. OECD.

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 and occasional smoking;
Freour, P. et al. (1993). Twenty-five years of nicotine addiction in France among general practitioners and the general male population. Bull Acad Natl Med, 177(1), 21-34.

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	85.7 %	0 %	69.2 %
All Cancer	25.9 %	0 %	14.9 %
Vascular	9.8 %	0 %	4.4 %
Respiratory	28.9 %	0 %	16.5 %
All Other	6.5 %	0 %	3.7 %
All Causes	13.1 %	0 %	6.9 %
Source:	Peto, Lopez et al, 1994 (update 1998)

Total deaths from smoking, 1950-2000 ^*

Male	Female	Total
205,000	0.00	205,000

Pharmaceutical treatments for tobacco dependence ^*

Dosage form	Regulatory status	Comments
Nicotine gum	Prescription Only Medicines	Advertised only to medical professionals
Nicotine Patch	Prescription Only Medicines	Advertised only to medical professionals
Bupropion Tablet	Prescription Only Medicines

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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