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Figure 8.1 Percentage of smokers in the <strong>Netherl<strong>and</strong>s</strong> by age group <strong>and</strong> gender. Survey year 2008<br />

50<br />

%<br />

40<br />

30<br />

30<br />

31 31<br />

29<br />

31<br />

33<br />

35<br />

28<br />

23<br />

20<br />

18<br />

14<br />

10<br />

10<br />

15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-74 >74<br />

Age<br />

Source: COR (STIVORO), TNS NIPO.<br />

In contrast to the reduction in the number of smokers, there was an increase in the<br />

1970s in the amount of tobacco used per smoker. Since the 1980s, the average number<br />

of cigarettes or roll-ups smoked daily has been estimated at around the twenty mark,<br />

with a decline from 2005 to an average of 18 a day (STIVORO, 2008a).<br />

• In 2008 some 25 billion cigarettes or roll-ups were smoked in the <strong>Netherl<strong>and</strong>s</strong> – a<br />

decline of around one billion compared to 2007 (Table 8.2).<br />

• Rolling tobacco has declined in popularity since 1990 by comparison with cigarettes.<br />

178 <strong>Netherl<strong>and</strong>s</strong> <strong>National</strong> <strong>Drug</strong> <strong>Monitor</strong> - NDM Annual Report 2009

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