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Jump to full article: Times of Malta (mt), 2007-04-22
Intro: Smoking is very widespread in Malta, even though the overwhelming majority of the Maltese (70.3%) said that at present they do not smoke. But the rest, 29.7%, engage in it.
Smokers are present in all the categories of society, irrespective of age, gender and social class. In the total population, there are more male smokers (32.9%) than female (26.5%). The highest percentages of smokers are to be found in the 36-50 (35.6%) age bracket (26-35: 33.3%; 51-61: 23.5%) while the oldest respondents (65+: 21.3%) register the lowest incidence of smoking. The youngest age group made up of those aged 16-25 registered a rather high 31.9%.
The highest percentage of those who smoke belong to the DE (33.3%) and C1 (31.3%) categories; a much lower percentage was registered among smokers who hail from the highest socio-economic category (AB: 23.3%). Within the C2 category, smokers amount to 27.7%.
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