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Number of smokers in Latvia gradually reduces from 1998
Nina Kolyako, BC, Riga, 30.12.2009.
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Print versionThe number of smokers in Latvia is gradually reducing, as the Center of Health Economics states in a report on the use of addictive substances in Latvia. According to the report, 51% of men and 19% of women admitted smoking daily in 1998, while in 2008 the numbers dropped to 45 and 16% respectively.
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Also the number of persons subjected to passive smoking at their workplace has reduced over the last decade. On the other hand, the number of smokers among teenagers has increased: 37.8% of girls and 45.7% of boys in 7th to 9th grade admit smoking on regular basis, writes LETA.
Over the last few years the popularity of various alternatives to the classical tobacco products has been growing: people use hookah, snuff and chewing-tobacco more often.
In terms of the proportion of smokers, Latvia places third among the European Union member states; Greece with 42% of resident being smokers places first and Bulgaria with 38% of its population smoking regularly, is second.
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