Smoking, vaping, HTP, NRT and snus in Slovenia

The overall trend for prevalence of current smokers in the general population in Slovenia has been upwards since 2006. 28% of the Slovenian population were current smokers in 2017, up from 23% in 2006. The trend has been gradually upwards during this period, with a peak in the 2012 survey at 30%. These data come from the Eurobarometer surveys, the most recent of which was carried out in 2017. In the most recent survey a total of 27,901 respondents from different social and demographic groups were interviewed face-to-face at home, in their mother tongue, across all 28 of the EU countries. The sample for each country is representative, however the sample sizes are relatively small (e.g. most countries had just over 1000 participants, but for Italy, Malta and Lithuania the sample was around 500). Nevertheless, the Eurobarometer surveys are useful as they have estimates for smoking prevalence collected over a number of years which can show trends, as described here.