NSW Population Health Survey 2006: NSW daily smoking rate hits record low of 13.9%. Add on occasional smokers, and the rate is 17.7%. Women smoke more than men? Wrong.15% of men smoke daily, compared to 12.9% of women. Young women smoking more? Wrong again. The peak smoking age group for women is 35-44 years (17.7%) and for men 25-34 years (21.6%)

But the most disadvantaged socioeconomic group of women (smoking prevalence 26%) are more than twice as likely to be smoking as the least disadvantaged group (10.2%). However, interestingly, only 19.8% of the most disadvantaged women smoke daily, suggesting that price may cutting their frequency of use.

AIHW 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: 16.6% daily smoking + 1.3% weekly smoking "Between 1991 and 2007, daily tobacco smoking rates declined by more than 30% to the lowest levels seen over the 16-year period."

B: Children's Smoking

NSW smoking rates by schoolchildren aged 12-17: 21% in past year; 11.4% in last month and 8.4% in last week.

Smoking Behaviours of Australian Secondary Students in 2005 (June 2006 released Oct 2006)
Australian Secondary Students' Alcohol and Drug (ASSAD) survey report prepared by Victoria White and Jane Hayman of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer at The Cancer Council Victoria for the Australian Department of Health and Ageing. Published as monograph 59 in the National Drug Strategy monograph series. The proportion of secondary school students in Australia involved with smoking in 2005 was substantially lower than it was in 1999 and in 2002. See also Smoking Behaviours of Australian Secondary Students in 2002 (Monograph series No. 54).

Tobacco Control Country Profiles 2003
The second edition of the Tobacco Control Country Profiles is published jointly by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the American Cancer Society (ACS). The resource provides a capsule of the most currently available information on tobacco production, trade, consumption, legislation and disease burden for 196 countries and territories worldwide.

Tobacco Control Policy: Strategies, Successes and Setbacks
This six country case studies report was co-published in 2003 by the World Bank and the International Development Research Centre on behalf of the Research for International Tobacco Control Secretariat. It is edited by Joy de Beyer and Linda Waverley. Click here to view other World Bank resources.

Tobacco on NationMaster.com
Information on NationMaster.com is based on numerical data from the CIA World Factbook. The statistics on tobacco (eg Total adult smokers) are sourced from the World Health Organization. Available statistics include: A comparison of adult male smokers in all the developed countries, A comparison of adult female smokers in all the developed countries, A comparison of underage smokers around the world, Underage female smokers and Underage male smokers.

US Tobacco Yearbook 2005 (released February 2006)
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) now has available 2005 data on world tobacco production, supply, trade, disappearance, and price data. The data is available in a series of excel spreadsheets, including US tobacco exports to leading destinations.

WHO Statistics
Global information about tobacco consumption and control from the World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative.

World Bank Economics of Tobacco Discussion Papers
Collection of studies (draft, preliminary or final papers) jointly published by The World Bank and The World Health Organization (WHO). Papers available include Past, Current and Future Trends in Tobacco Use by G. Emmanuel Guindon and David Boisclair published in March 2003 (includes projections on tobacco use and global cigarette consumption). Tobacco Control in Developing Countries is the book of background papers on which Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control draws, it is edited by Prabhat Jha and Frank Chaloupka and was published by OUP for the World Bank and World Health Organization in 2000.