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Who smokes in Europe? Data from 12 European countries in the TackSHS survey (2017-2018) Gallus, Silvano Lugo, Alessandra Liu, Xiaoqiu Behrakis, Panagiotis Boffi, Roberto Bosetti, Cristina Carreras, Giulia Chatenoud, Liliane Clancy, Luke Continente, Xavier G. (Xavier Garcia) Dobson, Ruaraidh Effertz, Tobias Filippidis, Filippos T. Fu Balboa, Marcela Geshanova, Gergana Gorini, Giuseppe Keogan, Sheila Ivanov, Hristo Lopez, Maria J. López Nicolás, Ángel Precioso, José Przewoźniak, Krzysztof Radu Loghin, Cornel Ruprecht, Ario Semple, Sean Soriano, Joan B. Starchenko, Polina Trapero Bertran, Marta Tigova, Olena Tzortzi, Anna S. Vardavas, Constantine I. Vyzikidou, Vergina K. Colombo, Paolo Fernández Muñoz, Esteve TackSHS Project Investigators Hàbit de fumar Qualitat de l'aire Smoking Air quality Background: Population data on tobacco use and its determinants require continuous monitoring and careful inter-country comparison. We aimed to provide the most up-to-date estimates on tobacco smoking from a large cross-sectional survey, conducted in selected European countries. Methods: Within the TackSHS Project, a face-to-face survey on smoking was conducted in 2017-2018 in 12 countries: Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Spain, representing around 80% of the 432 million European Union (EU) adult population. In each country, a representative sample of around 1,000 subjects aged 15 years and older was interviewed, for a total of 11,902 participants. Results: Overall, 25.9% of participants were current smokers (31.0% of men and 21.2% of women, P < 0.001), while 16.5% were former smokers. Smoking prevalence ranged from 18.9% in Italy to 37.0% in Bulgaria. It decreased with increasing age (compared to <45, multivariable odds ratio [OR] for ≥65 year, 0.31; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.27-0.36), level of education (OR for low vs high, 1.32; 95% CI, 1.17-1.48) and self-rated household economic level (OR for low vs high, 2.05; 95% CI, 1.74-2.42). The same patterns were found in both sexes. Conclusions: These smoking prevalence estimates represent the most up-to-date evidence in Europe. From them, it can be derived that there are more than 112 million current smokers in the EU-28. Lower socio-economic status is a major determinant of smoking habit in both sexes. 2021-02-26T07:26:20Z 2021-02-26T07:26:20Z 2021-02-05 2021-02-25T09:18:24Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20190344 Journal of Epidemiology, 2021, vol. 31, num. 2, p. 145-151 https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20190344 cc by (c) Gallus et al., 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Japan Epidemiological Association Articles publicats en revistes (Institut d'lnvestigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL))