PART 1.
Cigarette consumption and smoking prevalence in Hungary

Table 1.
Data of domestic cigarette turnover
1960 - 1998

Highlighted years	total sales (billion pieces)	out of it filtered (%)
1960	15.3	14
1970	22.4	37
1980	27.4	79
1991	26.5	92.6
1998	~ 26.0	~ 100

Table 2.
Estimated cigarette consumption by one smoker in Hungary
(1998)

Number of population	10 092 000
Cigarette turnover (billion pieces)	26,0
Estimated proportion of smokers of population	35 %
Estimated number of smokers of population	3 532 200
Cigarette ration of one smoker of population (piece/year)	7360
Cigarette ration of one smoker of population (piece/day)	20

Table 3.
Estimated per capita consumption of cigarettes per adult 15 years of age
and over in the different countries of the World (piece/year)

Average of the years 1970-1972

1.	Canada	3910
2.	Switzerland	3700
3.	USA	3700
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13.	HUNGARY	2940

Average of the years 1980-1982

1.	Canada	3800
2.	USA	3560
3.	Australia	3440
4.	Greece	3440
5.	Japan	3430
6.	Poland	3400
7.	HUNGARY	3320

Average of the years 1990-1992

1.	Poland	3620
2.	Greece	3590
3.	HUNGARY	3260
4.	Japan	3240
5.	Republic Korea	3010
6.	Switzerland	2910
7.	Island	2860

Table 4.
Survey on the proportion of Hungarian smokers

Smoking attitude in different groups	smoking prevalence
Adults	males	females
	44 %	27 %
Primary school chilren (8. class)	22 %
Secondary, technical and skilled worker school students (14 - 18 years)	35 %
Secondary, technical and skilled worker school students (18 years)	47.9 %
Recruits (18-22 years)	49 %
Physicians, teachers and M.P’s	26-29 %

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