When asked whether they were current smokers, 12.3 percent of male Brazilian respondents answered affirmatively in 2019, up from 12.1 percent of the men surveyed a year earlier. This figure was higher than the share of female respondents who answered affirmatively to the same question, which reached more than seven percent in 2019.
Share of adult people who claimed to be smokers in Brazil from 2008 to 2019, by gender
Data prior to 2019 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). (April 27, 2020). Share of adult people who claimed to be smokers in Brazil from 2008 to 2019, by gender [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 28, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/761055/share-adult-smokers-gender-brazil/
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