Tobacco CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK

KIRIBATI

Smoking among females aged 15 and overlatest available data

50% and above

40% – 49%

30% – 39%

20% – 29%

10% – 19%

below 10%

no data

Smoking prevalence for women

women smoke as much as men

men smoke ten or more times more than women

Smoking trendspercentage of female smokers 1960–2000 selected countries

199922%

199023%1979

30%197032%

196534%

USA18 and over

UK16 and over

Japan15 and over

200014%

199014%

198014%1970

16%

196013%

199826%

199029%1980

37%197044%

196042%

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CROATIASAN MARINO

ITALY

REP.MOLDOVA

UKRAINE

YUGOSLAVIA

LITHUANIA

LATVIA

ESTONIA

ALBANIA

AUSTRIA HUNGARY

BULGARIA

FYR MACEDONIA

ROMANIA

GREECE

POLAND

SLOVENIA

BELARUS

RUSSIANFED.

UNITEDKINGDOM

TUNISIA

IRELAND

DENMARK

FRANCE

ANDORRAS P A I N

PORTUGAL

GERMANY

SWITZ.

BELGIUM

LUX.

NETH.

MOROCCO

ALGERIA

ICELAND

NORWAYFINLAND

SWEDEN

SLOVAKIACZECHREPUBLIC

MALTA

A U S T R A L I A

BARBADOS

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

PALAU

NAURU

TONGA

ST VINCENT & GRENADINES

BAHAMAS

ZIMBABWE

UGANDA

TURKMEN

UZBEKISTANKYRGYZSTAN

GEOAZER

ARMENIA

Hong Kong SAR

CUBA DOMINICANREPUBLIC

PUERTO RICO

BRUNEI DAR.

M A L A Y S I A

SAUDI ARABIA

C H I N A

M O N G O L I A

VIETNAMLAOPDR

THAILAND

CAMBODIA

I N D I ABANGLADESH

SRI LANKA

PAKISTAN

TURKEY

IRAQ

CYPRUS

TUNISIA

ISRAEL

LEBANON

WEST BANK& GAZA JORDAN

BAHRAIN

QATAR

UAE

OMAN

KUWAIT

YEMEN

NEPAL

K A Z A K H S T A N

U N I T E D S T A T E S

O F A M E R I C A

C A N A D A

ALGERIA

S U D A NNIGERIA

DEM. REP.CONGO

EGYPT

MOROCCO LIBYANARAB

JAMAHIRIYA

see inset

SENEGAL

GUINEAGAMBIA

CÔTE D’IVOIRE G

HAN

A

NAMIBIA

SOUTH AFRICA

ZAMBIA

UNITED REP.TANZANIA

MALAWI

RWANDA

KENYA

DJIBOUTI

SWAZILAND

LESOTHO

GUATEMALAEL SALVADOR

MEXICO

HAITI

BOLIVIA

PARAGUAY

B R A Z I L

VENEZUELA

COLOMBIA

HONDURAS

NICARAGUA

COSTA RICAPANAMA

ECUADOR

PERU

ARGENTINA

URUGUAY

CHILE

PHILIPPINES

NEWZEALAND

PAPUANEW

GUINEA

I N D O N E S I A

JAPAN

R U S S I A N F E D E R A T I O N

GREENLAND

MAURITIUS

SEYCHELLES

SINGAPORE

MYANMAR

SOLOMONISLANDS

TOKELAU

SAMOA

NIUE

COOK

TUVALU

FIJIVANUATU

REP.KOREA

SYRIAN ARAB REP.

ISL. REP.IRAN

MALDIVES

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“…the current lower level of tobacco use among women in the world…does not

reflect health awareness, but rather social traditions and women’s low economic

resources.” Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General, WHO, 1998

About 250 million women in the world are daily smokers. About 22 percent of women in developed countries and 9 percent of women in developing countries smoke tobacco. In addition, many women in south Asia chew tobacco.

Cigarette smoking among women is declining in many developed countries, notablyAustralia, Canada, the UK and the USA. But this trend is not found in all developed countries. In several southern, central and eastern European countries cigarette smoking is either still increasing among women or has not shown any decline.

The tobacco industry promotes cigarettes to women using seductive but false images of vitality, slimness, modernity, emancipation, sophistication, and sexual allure. In reality, it causes disease and death. Tobacco companies have now produced a range of brands aimed at women. Most notable are the “women-only” brands: these “feminised” cigarettes are long, extra-slim, low-tar, light-coloured or menthol.

Female Smoking4