Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS) 2006

Source from:  hc-sc.gc.ca 07/11/2007

Help on accessing alternative formats, such as PDF, MP3 and WAV files, can be obtained in the alternate format help section. According to the latest results from the Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS), for data collected between February and December 2006, slightly fewer than 5 million Canadians, representing 19% of the population aged 15 years and older, were current smokers. Approximately 20% of males and 17% of females aged 15 years and older were current smokers in 2006. Men continued to smoke more cigarettes than women - 16.9 cigarettes per day for males, 13.8 cigarettes for females. Results indicate that, between 1985 and 2006, smoking rates have fallen by almost one-half, from 35% to 19%. Enditem