The European Union has announced the countries that smoke the most and the least in Europe. The country that consumes the most cigarettes is Bulgaria, while the country that consumes the least is Norway.
The European Union (EU) Statistical Office (Eurostat) shared the latest information obtained in research conducted with data obtained in 2019 on smokers in Europe. According to shared data, in Europe most smoked countries were Bulgaria and Turkey.
Against this least smoking Scandinavian countries took place in the top three countries. These three countries were followed by Italy, France, Germany and Greece, respectively.
Turkey is the country where men smoke the most.
Special Consumption Tax (SCT) applied to alcohol and cigarettes applied when we enter 2022 in Turkey 47 percent rate was increased. However, according to the data announced by Eurostat, these price hikes on cigarettes did not have much effect on smokers.
According to the data obtained, the country with the highest consumption of cigarettes among European countries exceeded the EU average of 18.4. 29 percent compared to Bulgaria. Bulgaria 27 percent followed by Turkey. In addition, Turkey is among the European countries where men smoke the most. first placed in the queue.
Norway is the country with the least number of cigarettes.
As we mentioned at the beginning of the article, the European countries that consume the least cigarettes were the Scandinavian countries. According to this 6.4 percent Sweden has the lowest rate of cigarette consumers compared to 9.9 percent with Finland and 10.2 percent followed by Norway.
On the other hand, the rate of cigarette users is % in Italy. 16.6, in France 17.8, in Germany 21.9 and in Greece 23.6 was determined as.
14.8 percent of Turkey drinks more than 20 times a day
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Apart from these data, the research also revealed information about people smoking more or less than 20 cigarettes a day. According to these data, the country with a rate of consuming more than 20 cigarettes per day 15.8 percent and Serbia, followed by Turkey. Percentage of people who smoke more than 20 per day in Turkey 14.8 percent standing out; of the people 12.5 percentIt turned out that ten of them smoke less than 20 cigarettes a day.
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