Methods -- Countries considered -- Main sources of data -- Sales data -- Survey data -- Additional survey-based data -- Population -- Comparisons between countries -- Australia -- Austria -- Belgium -- Bulgaria -- Canada -- Czechoslovakia -- Denmark -- Finland -- France -- Germany -- Greece -- Hungary -- Iceland -- Ireland -- Israel -- Italy -- Japan -- Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Norway -- Poland -- Portugal -- Romania -- Spain -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- UK -- USA -- USSR --Yugoslavia -- Estimated size of adult population -- Comparisons of manufactured and hand-rolled cigarettes and differences in the way they are smoked -- Consumption category estimation -- Estimation of prevalence of smoking by standardized age groups -- Estimating past smoking habits by an indirect method, with application to Great Britain
Summary
With its wide international coverage and the time period considered, this text is a valuable reference source for anyone interested in studying long term trends in smoking and smoking-related mortality in different countries in the world
