Smoking prevalence in Slovakia
Adult1 (18 years+), 1996		Youth2 (11-15 year olds), 1998		Physicians3, 1991
Male	55.1 %	Male	7 %	Males	32 %
Female	30 %	Female	3 %	Females	29 %

¹ Smoking at least one cigarette a day or seven in a week;
Urban, S. et al. (1996). Epidemiology of smoking in Slovakia. Bratislava: Comenius University.

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 Regular daily smoking;
information provided by Elena Kavcova 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	94.7 %	100.0 %	95.2 %
All Cancer	47.6 %	5.0 %	31.1 %
Vascular	23.1 %	2.8 %	13.1 %
Respiratory	31.8 %	5.6 %	20.0 %
All Other	8.5 %	0.0 %	5.3 %
All Causes	25.7 %	2.9 %	15.5 %
Source:	Peto, Lopez et al, 1992, 1994

Pharmaceutical treatments for tobacco dependence ^*

Dosage form	Comments
Nicotine Replacement Products	According to Elena Kavcova, 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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