About 17.7 percent of the total population in Egypt 15 years old and above – 18 million people – are smokers according to population estimates for 2020, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced Sunday in a report. The percentage of smokers among males is 35.6 percent, compared to 0.3 percent among females, indicating that the issue is primarily a male one. The average annual expenditure on smoking for an Egyptian family of one or more smokers is about LE6,293.5. The highest percentage of smokers among the different educated categories was for those with a literacy certificate at 30.1 percent, followed by those who read and write at 27.5 percent. The lowest percentage of smokers at all was found among those with a university degree or a higher degree at 12.7 percent.

Source: Egypt Independent May 31, 2021 13:41 UTC