Patterns of smoking in Russia

• Main Author: Zaridze, David
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University PressOxford 2004
• Subjects: karelia*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198526872.003.0012; https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52533109/isbn-9780198526872-book-part-12.pdf

Abstract Russia is the fourth largest cigarette market in the world, and one of the fastest-growing. Russians consume about 300 billion cigarettes a year. According to official statistics in 1985 Russians consumed 240 billion cigarettes. The smoking rate in Russia was already quite high in mid-1980s, 46-48% among men and 3-12% among women (The principal investigators. The MONICA Project 1989). Since then smoking rates in men increased by about 10-15% and the rates in women have at least doubled. In the survey carried out in Karelia in 1992 (Puska et al. 1993), highest smoking rates were recorded among people aged 25-34 years, 77% and 20% in men and women, respectively. Proportion of smokers among men aged 35-44 and 45-54 was 61% and 68% respectively. In women, in these age groups smoking rates were lower, 13% and 3%, respectively. Lowest rates were observed in those aged 55-64 years, 57% in men and 3% in women (Table 12.1).