Life style and (preventive) health; personal characteristics, 2014-2021

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Description topics

Smoking behaviour, 12 years or older

Questions on smoking behaviour are asked to persons aged 12 years or older.

Cigarette smokers

Cigarette smokers

The percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older that answered Yes to the question Do you ever smoke cigarettes from a pack and/or do you roll them yourself?

Cigarettes per day per smoker

Number of cigarettes per day per cigarette smoker aged 12 years or older.

Smoking years current cigarette smokers

Number of years that a current cigarette smoker of 12 years or older already has smoked.

Quitting attempts in the past 12 months

The percentage of the cigarette smokers aged 12 years or older who tried to stop smoking in the last 12 months, and succeeded for at least 24 hours.

Former cigarette smokers

Smoking years former cigarette smokers

Number of years that a former cigarette smoker aged 12 years or older has smoked cigarettes.

Quitting years former cigarette smokers

Number of years since former cigarette smokers aged 12 years or older quitted smoking cigarettes.

E-cigarette

From 2016, a question about the e-cigarette was added: Do you ever use an electronic cigarette or e-cigarette? Other names for this are e-smoker, shisha pen or FlavorVape.’ From 2016 -2018, the answer options were 'yes' or 'no'. From 2019 onwards, the question and the answer options were slightly different.

E-cigarette

Percentage of people aged 12 or older with answer category ‘Yes’ to the question: ‘Do you ever use an electronic cigarette or e-cigarette? Other names for this are e-smoker, shisha pen or FlavorVape.’ This question was asked in the survey from 2016 to 2018.

E-cigarette, regularly or every day

The percentage of people aged 12 years or older in the population who answered 'Yes, every day' or 'Yes, but not every day' to the question 'Do you ever use an electronic cigarette? It is also called an e-cigarette. Other names for this are e-smoker or shisha pen. We do not mean a device in which tobacco is heated (e.g. heatstick, heat-not-burn and the IQOS)'.
In the years 2019 and 2020, the answer options were Yes, every day', 'Yes, regularly but not every day', 'I've used it a few times' and 'No'. The question in 2019 was: 'Do you ever use an electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette? Other names for this are e-smoker, shisha pen or FlavorVape'. In 2020 the question was changed to: 'Do you ever use an electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette? Other names for this are e-smoker or shisha pen. We do not mean a device in which tobacco is heated (heatstick, heat-not-burn), such as the IQOS'.