When asked whether they were current smokers, 12.1 percent of male Brazilian respondents answered affirmatively in 2018, down from 13.2 percent of the men surveyed a year earlier. This figure was higher than the share of female respondants who answered affimatively to the same question, which reached almost seven percent in 2018.
Share of adult people who claimed to be smokers in Brazil from 2008 to 2018, by gender
Data prior to 2018 were retrieved from earlier releases of the publication.
Respondents were asked whether they were smoking currently, and if yes, how often and how many cigarettes.
The phrasing of the question chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the original.
The survey was carried out in the capital city of each of the 26 Brazilian states, plus the Federal District of Brasília.
More information about this study's methodology can be found in pages 16 to 25.
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Ministério da Saúde (Brazil) (Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde). (July 25, 2019). Share of adult people who claimed to be smokers in Brazil from 2008 to 2018, by gender [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 17, 2020, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/761055/share-adult-smokers-gender-brazil/
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