The EU statistics agency said that one in four persons over the age of 15 smoked on a daily basis in 2014, as compared with the EU average of 24%. The rate in Latvia and Estonia was 29.5% and 27.6%, respectively.
Lithuania also featured the widest gap between the male and female smoking population – the percentage of daily smokers was 40.3% among men and 12.3% among women.
Lithuania's share of daily smokers was 20.4%, in addition to 4.6% who said they smoked randomly.
