Smoking in Jordan
Current adult tobacco smoking prevalence is 35.2%. (with 12.7% of women and 57.4% of men). Daily tobacco smoking prevalence is at 37.3%. In Jordan, 3174 people die each year due to tobacco smoking. The mortality rate associated with tobacco smoking is 14.13%.
Read articles from Jordan
December 11, 2020 by vapingpost.com
Middle East: Smoking Rates Remain High Where Vaping is Shunned
Figures recently released by the Jordanian government in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) have indicated that the Middle Eastern kingdom of Jordan, has the world’s highest smoking rates. Sadly, other Middle Eastern countries seem to have similar rates.
[...] “We believe a few factors explain why less than two per cent of smokers may have switched to less harmful tobacco products in the region,” said David Janazzo, chief financial officer at the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.
RELATED VIDEOS
RELATED VIDEOS
29 June 2018
Rethinking nicotine across the lifespan: what about the older smoker?
29 June 2017
Tobacco intervention for persons with serious mental illness: what works?
12 July 2019
Long term effects of nicotine
05 July 2022
GFN22 | Wrap up with conference & programme directors
02 August 2018
Perceptions of relative risk between cigarettes and snus, e cigarettes and NRT
22 June 2022
GFN'22 | Benefits of nicotine
11 August 2019
Q&A Session. Science Plenary: Pushing the pace: emergent evidence in nicotine science
29 June 2017
Mental health, nicotine use and e cigarettes - Helen Redmond