“”In 2023, more than three people aged 18-75 declared smoking tobacco (31.1%) and 23.1% smoke daily“, note the French observatory of drugs and addictive (OFDT) and Public Health France France, in a study already disseminated in November and completed to include in particular the socioeconomic factors linked to smoking.
“”This is the proportion of the lowest daily smokers since the late 1990s“And the creation of this indicator, they write in a press release.
On the other hand, smoking is not airtight to social inequalities.
“”People without a diploma or have a diploma lower than the baccalaureate present a level of daily use of tobacco much higher (28.9%) than those declaring a diploma higher in the baccalaureate (16.6%)“Says this study, according to a survey carried out with some 15,000 people.
The dynamics are similar for monthly income: three out of ten people (30.3%) earning less than 1,160 euros smoke every day, almost twice as much as those earning more than 2,510 euros (17%).
If the share of unemployed people declaring smoking daily is high (35.7%), it fell ten points compared to 2021 (45.8%).
“”Men remain more often daily smokers than women (25.4% vs 20.9%)“, Continue the OFDT and Public Health France.
Vaping continues to increase, with 6.1% of adults who smoke electronic cigarettes every day in 2023 against 2.7% in 2017.
“”Almost one in twenty adults (4.8%) says both smoking tobacco and vaping, half of them on a daily basis“, continues the study, and the younger generations vapor more every day (7.1% of 18-24 year olds and 8.7% of 25-34 year olds against 2% of 65-75 year olds).
This completed study also unveils certain territorial specificities: daily smoking is the weakest in Île-de-France (19.6%) and in Brittany (19.5%). The rates are the highest in Burgundy-Franche-Comté (26.8%) and in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (26.5%).
A light of hope in the fight against smoking, which remains one of the main causes of death in France: the 18-24 year olds are fewer to smoke cigarettes every day than 25-34 year olds.