EU fact of the week
date: 09/12/2016
UK records one of the lowest shares of smokers in the EU
The UK is one of the EU countries with the lowest share of smokers among its population aged 15 and over – 17.2%. This puts it in second place, after Sweden with 16.7% (data is available for all EU countries except Ireland). At the opposite end of the scale, about 1 in 3 persons aged 15 or over was a smoker in Bulgaria (34.7%) and Greece (32.6%). The figures are a snapshot of the situation in 2014 and were released on 7 December by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office.