Smoking seriously harms health, yet there are 12.4 million smokers in Italy: 24.2% of the population surrender to smoking, especially in Campania, Umbria and Abruzzo, where smoking has the highest rate. Men smoke more between the ages of 25 and 44; women smoke more between the ages of 45 and 64. Among males, 25.6% of people smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day, while the heavy female smokers are about 13.4%. In addition, in the last year there was an increase of 800 thousand units compared to the 2019 figure, which is also explained by the Covid pandemic effect: compared to 2021, there was a decrease of two percentage points in the prevalence of cigarette smoking in 2022. The Ministry of Health estimates the number of smoking-related deaths in Italy at 93,000 a year and these figures have brought the issue to the attention of scholars and the media. This was discussed during the event "Risk reduction as a public Health Strategy in the elimination of cigarette smoking", carried out by Motore Sanità with the liberal contribution of PMI Science.
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