Smoking prevalence in Slovenia
Adult1 (18 years+), 1999		Youth2 (16 year olds), 1999		Physicians3, 1996
Male	30 %	Male	4.6 %	Males	17 %
Female	20.3 %	Female	4.7 %	Females	15 %

¹ Current smoking;
Tos, N. (forthcoming). Public Opinion Survey. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana.

² Smoking 20-39 cigarettes during his/her lifetime measured by European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD);
Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia. (forthcoming). The 1999 ESPAD report: Alcohol and other drug use among students in 26 European Countries. Stockholm: E. Stergar.

³ Regular daily smoking;
information provided by Viktorija Rehar 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	93.1 %	54.0 %	86.8 %
All Cancer	47.1 %	5.4 %	28.6 %
Vascular	20.5 %	2.9 %	10.7 %
Respiratory	40.6 %	17.2 %	31.6 %
All Other	8.4 %	2.1 %	5.8 %
All Causes	26.0 %	4.0 %	15.3 %
Source:	Peto, Lopez et al, 1992, 1994

Pharmaceutical treatments for tobacco dependence ^*

Dosage form	Comments
Nicotine Replacement Products	According to Viktorija Rehar, products are readily available.

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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