Number of smokers drops to 25%

Some 25% of the Dutch adult population currently smokes, a drop of 3% on the total over the past few years, according to anti-smoking lobby group Stivoro.


The percentage of smokers in the population had been stable at around 28% for years. In the 1950s, some 70% of the Dutch population smoked.

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