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Lithuania's rate of smokers above EU average - Eurostat
BC, Vilnius, 07.12.2016.
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Print versionThe average share of smokers of cigarettes in Lithuania is higher than that in the rest of the European Union, Eurostat said on Wednesday.
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The EU statistics agency said that one in four persons over the age of 15 smoked on a daily basis in 2014, as compared with the EU average of 24%. The rate in Latvia and Estonia was 29.5% and 27.6%, respectively.
Lithuania also featured the widest gap between the male and female smoking population – the percentage of daily smokers was 40.3% among men and 12.3% among women.
Lithuania's share of daily smokers was 20.4%, in addition to 4.6% who said they smoked randomly.
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