Greece has the highest cigarette consumption per capita, with the average citizen smoking around 3,000 cigarettes a year. Other high-smoking countries include Ukraine, Slovenia, and Russia. Tobacco-related deaths in the EU are decreasing, but increasing in former USSR countries. China consumes one-third of the world’s cigarettes, but the average consumption per citizen is lower than Greece. The US ranks 41st in smoking, with only one-fifth of Americans smoking regularly, but more than the French and British.
The country that smokes the most cigarettes per capita is Greece: the average Greek citizen smokes around 3,000 cigarettes a year, or between eight and ten cigarettes a day. Other countries where smoking is high are Ukraine, Slovenia and Russia, where citizens smoke an average of 10-2,000 cigarettes a year.
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About 40% of deaths in the European Union between 1950 and 2000 were tobacco-related. While this statistic is decreasing in the EU, it appears to be increasing in former USSR countries, many of which have a legal smoking age of 15.
China consumes about one third of the world’s cigarettes, although the average consumption per citizen is one third that of Greece.
The United States ranks 41st among nations in terms of smoking, with only about one-fifth of Americans smoking regularly. Americans, however, still smoke more than the French and the British.
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