In 2025, 16.5% of people 16 years or older in the EU used tobacco and related products (e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches or heated tobacco products) daily, indicating a slight decrease from the 17.5% registered in 2022. Most people (77.5%) do not use such products or had not used them in the 12 months prior to the data collection.
Data show that 20.8% of men smoked every day, compared with 12.6% of women. Both shares decreased slightly compared with 2022, when 22.2% of men and 13.1% of women smoked daily.
By age group, the highest share of daily users of tobacco and related products was in the 35 49-year group (21.3%), followed by those aged 25-34 years (19.9%) and 50-64-years (19.8%). The youngest and oldest age groups had the lowest shares, at 12.1% and 9.1% respectively.
Source dataset: ilc_hch22
Among EU countries, Bulgaria (26.3%), Sweden (23.9%) and Croatia (23.6%) recorded the highest shares of daily use of tobacco and related products among people 16 years or older.
The Netherlands (9.9%), Ireland (11.7%), Belgium (13.6%) and Luxembourg (13.8%) had the lowest shares.
Source dataset: ilc_hch22
In 17 EU countries, the share of people who used tobacco and related products daily decreased between 2022 and 2025. The largest decreases were in Spain and Luxembourg (each -2.1 percentage points (pp)). In contrast, Croatia and Lithuania (each +2.7 pp) recorded the largest increases.
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Methodological notes
- Data on this news article comes from the EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC).
- Lithuania: provisional data for 2025.
- Czechia: low reliability for 2025.
