Lund Karl Erik, Lund Marianne, Bryhni Anders
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2009 Sep 24;129(18):1871-4. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.08.0248.
After 100 years of mass consumption of cigarettes, the smoking epidemic is on the verge of a historic decline in Norway. The article shows the number of smokers and tobacco consumption among men and women from 1927 to 2007.
The total consumption of tobacco was estimated by adding up registered and unregistered sales. Data were collected from the Directorate of Customs and Excise and the tobacco industry. Sex-specific consumption was calculated from information on proportion of smokers and daily consumption (self-reported), excerpted from time series of representative cross-sectional surveys.
About 800,000 men - more men than women - smoked in the early 1960s, but the annual consumption of cigarettes per adult male reached its peak (2.8 kg) in the mid-1970s. The number of smokers among men has been halved since then and consumption reduced to 1.5 kg per adult male in 2007. Consumption peaked among women in about 1990, but stopped at 1.8 kg. The number of female smokers has only been reduced by about 150 000 individuals since it culminated at around 600,000 in the early 1970s. Men smoked more than 70 % of the cigarettes consumed from 1927 to 2007.
The tobacco epidemic has affected men more than women. After 1995 a sex convergence has been observed.
在香烟大规模消费100年后，挪威的吸烟流行正处于历史性下降的边缘。本文展示了1927年至2007年男性和女性的吸烟人数及烟草消费量。
通过将注册和未注册的销售量相加来估算烟草总消费量。数据收集自海关与消费税局以及烟草行业。特定性别的消费量根据吸烟者比例和每日消费量（自我报告）信息计算得出，这些信息摘自代表性横断面调查的时间序列。
20世纪60年代初，约80万男性吸烟，吸烟男性多于女性，但成年男性人均年香烟消费量在20世纪70年代中期达到峰值（2.8千克）。从那时起，男性吸烟人数减半，到2007年成年男性消费量降至1.5千克。女性消费量在1990年左右达到峰值，但停留在1.8千克。自20世纪70年代初女性吸烟人数达到约60万的顶峰以来，女性吸烟人数仅减少了约15万。1927年至2007年期间，男性吸烟量占总吸烟量的70%以上。
吸烟流行对男性的影响大于女性。1995年后出现了性别趋同现象。
